This article is about the TV series. For the song of the same name, see "Agatha All Along".
- “Revenge is a Witch.”
- ―Tagline
Agatha All Along is a Disney+ original series, set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe centering on Agatha Harkness. It is a spinoff series of WandaVision, from which the starring character originated. It is the twelfth Disney+ MCU series, and it premiered on September 18, 2024, and concluded on October 30, as a part of Phase Five.
Synopsis
In Agatha All Along, the infamous Agatha Harkness finds herself down and out of power after a suspicious goth teen helps break her free from a distorted spell. Her interest is piqued when he begs her to take him on the legendary Witches' Road, a magical gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards a witch with what they're missing. Together, Agatha and this mysterious Teen pull together a desperate coven, and set off down, down, down The Road…
Plot
Agatha Harkness, who has been trapped in her mind since the events of WandaVision, gets a rude awakening when she gets a visit from her former lover Rio Vidal and a young mysterious teenager who seems all too interested in her. Rio is actually a fellow witch who is after Agatha, but she insists that she leave her be until she regains her magic. Rio agrees, but warns that the Salem Seven are after her. The Teen, who cannot say his name due to some kind of sigil, asks Agatha for help with locating the Witches' Road, a supposed place where witches seeking power must traverse in order to seek "glory" at the end of it.
Agatha and Teen set out to collect a coven, recruiting the psychic, yet seemingly eccentric, Lilia Calderu, young candle and potions maker Jennifer Kale, and security guard and daughter of a former cursed witch, Alice Wu-Gulliver. Lilia, who jotted the names of those who will join the coven, adds that a "Black Heart" was to also join them, but Agatha chickens out and instead recruits her neighbor Sharon Davis.
The group manage to open the Witches' Road, something that Agatha seems oddly surprised by, and the group walk down the road where they encounter a series of challenges. The first challenge has the group take refuge in a beach house and drink wine. However, the wine is poisoned and they must quickly brew a cure before it takes effect. While they manage to create a cure and escape, Sharon succumbs to the poison. They get a "replacement" in Rio who suddenly manifests after a spell. They are forced to continue and next enter what looks like a recording studio, something that gives Alice grief as it reminds her of her rock star mother. The group perform a rock version of the Witches' Ballad and Alice overcomes her curse.
The group next enter a cabin where they use a Ouija board to talk to spirits, Agatha is possessed by the spirit of her mother who scolds the others for relying on her. Alice attempts to save Agatha, but Agatha absorbs her magic, killing her in the process. By this point, Agatha realizes that the Teen is actually Wanda Maximoff's son, Billy Maximoff. Flashback reveals that Billy Kaplan was leaving his Bar Mitvah with his parents when they got into a car crash right when Wanda's hex was lifting from Westview. Billy's soul went into the teen who died and he has been trying to find his brother Tommy this whole time.
Agatha, Billy, Lilia, and Jen eventually meet up at the next test involving Tarot cards. Lilia, who has been experiencing her life out of order, has actually been predicting this event her whole life. She also reveals that Rio is actually Death and Agatha's former lover, explaining her sudden disappearance and interest in her. Lilia saves the covens' lives, at the cost of her own, while also taking out the Salem Seven. Agatha, Billy, and Jen realize that the road is a circle and enter the final test. Jen finds out that Agatha had bounded her years ago and unbounds herself, regaining her full magic and disappearing from the road. Agatha then helps Billy locate Tommy's soul, finding a body that will also die soon, and he too disappears.
Agatha escapes the final trial, but Death shows up demanding either her or Billy's life as promised. Billy and Agatha battle Death, but Agatha ultimately gives up her life. Billy returns home and comes to the shocking conclusion that the Witches' Road was never real and that he manifested it based on his own interests. Agatha's ghost comes and congratulates him, but Billy is horrified at the fact that he killed Alice, Sharon, and Lilia, though Agatha mentions that he did save Jen. Billy tries to get rid of Agatha, but she finally admits that she is afraid of confronting her son, Nicholas Scratch, in the afterlife. Agatha was forced to lose her son to Death after spending years trying to stay alive. Billy makes amends with Agatha and decides to take her on as a guide, as they leave to go search for Tommy.
Cast
Starring
- Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness
- Joe Locke as Billy Kaplan/Wiccan
- Sasheer Zamata as Jennifer Kale
- Ali Ahn as Alice Wu-Gulliver
- Maria Dizzia as Rebecca Kaplan
- Paul Adelstein as Jeff Kaplan
- Miles Gutierrez-Riley as Eddie
- Okwui Okpokwasili as Vertigo
- Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon Davis
- Evan Peters as Ralph Bohner
- Patti LuPone as Lilia Calderu
- Chloe Camp as Young Lilia
- Aubrey Plaza as Rio Vidal/Death
Guest Starring
- Emma Caulfield Ford as "Dottie Jones"/Sarah Proctor
- David Payton as "Herb Feltman"/John Collins
- David Lengel as "Phil Jones"/Harold Proctor
- Asif Ali as "Norm Gentilucci"/Abilash Tandon
- Amos Glick as Dennis Webber
- Elizabeth Anweis as Lorna Wu
- Scott Butler as The Doctor
- Chau Naumova as Coyote
- Bethany Curry as Crow
- Athena Perample as Fox
- Alicia Vela-Bailey as Owl
- Britta Grant as Rat
- Marina Mazepa as Snake
- Kate Forbes as Evanora Harkness
- Abel Lysenko as Nicholas Scratch
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Seekest Thou the Road" | Jac Schaeffer | Jac Schaeffer | September 18, 2024 |
| In a crime-style television series titled Agnes of Westview, "Agnes O'Connor" is a police detective in Westview fixated on a Jane Doe murder case. One night, a teenager breaks into Agnes' house, looking for "The Road". Agnes believes he is tied to the murder case, and arrests him. The next day, Vidal, a fellow police detective, comes to Agnes and helps her realize the Jane Doe she is seeing is actually Wanda Maximoff's body, and that Agnes is actually the witch Agatha Harkness, who has been trapped for three years under Maximoff's spell. Waking up from the spell, Agatha realizes that her powers are gone, and Rio Vidal is here to kill her. Agatha convinces Vidal to spare her so she can get her powers back, but Vidal warns Agatha that the Salem's Seven will soon come after her. After Vidal leaves, Agatha is unsure what to do about the teenager, whom she actually kidnapped. | ||||
| 2 | "Circle Sewn With Fate / Unlock Thy Hidden Gate" | Jac Schaeffer | Laura Donney | September 18, 2024 |
| The teenager reveals he freed Agatha from the spell and is wishing to travel the Witches' Road, where she could restore her power. Agatha also realizes she is unable to hear whenever the teenager speaks his name or gives any personal information. Needing a coven to open a portal to the Road, both convince and reunite the witches Lilia Calderu, Jennifer Kale, and Alice Wu-Gulliver. Agatha also recruits Westview resident Sharon Davis in replacement of Vidal. As the four witches and Davis make the ritual to open the Road's portal, the teenager sees the Salem's Seven arrive to Agatha's house. The coven and the teenager are able to escape through the Road's gates. | ||||
| 3 | "Through Many Miles / Of Tricks and Trials" | Rachel Goldberg | Cameron Squires | September 25, 2024 |
| Agatha informs the coven that to reach the end of the Road, they will face Trials that focus on the different studies of Witchcraft. While on the way to the first trial, the coven learns of Teen's sigil, preventing witches from learning his name. At the first trial, the coven finds a house with a bottle of wine, which all of them drink (except Teen). A timer starts counting down, and Jennifer realizes the wine contained poison. Sharon, who drank first, faints. As they gather ingredients to create an antidote, each of them hallucinates: Lilia sees a young girl, Jennifer hallucinates a priest forcing her underwater, Alice sees her mother drinking a bottle of poison, and Agatha sees a crib containing a burnt Darkhold. As they prepare the antidote, they notice the house is now underwater. With a few seconds left on the timer, they finish the antidote and drink it, as well feed some to Sharon. As water pours into the house, they escape via a tunnel in the oven, leading them back to the road. As they get up, Teen sees that Sharon is dead. | ||||
| 4 | "If I Can't Reach You / Let My Song Teach You" | Rachel Goldberg | Giovanna Sarquis | October 2, 2024 |
| After burying Sharon, the coven is forced to summon a replacement Green Witch, who turns out to be Rio, much to Agatha's annoyance. The coven encounter a house with a 1970s aesthetic that gives Alice grief. Upon entering, they find that it is a recording studio tied to Alice's mother, Lorna Wu. Just as Rio playfully suggests to Agatha that they betray the others, which is overheard by everyone, the Teen accidentally plays a record backwards, that summons a demon that is part of a curse in Alice's family. In order to fight back, the group plays Lorna's version of the Ballad and Alice is able to successfully kill the demon. Teen is revealed to be severely wounded, and the coven escape the house and tend to him, saving his life. Lilia, Alice, and Jen bond with each other while Rio implies the history between herself and Agatha. Agatha checks on the Teen who asks what happened to her son, but she ignores the question. Later, Rio tells Agatha that the Teen is not her son. | ||||
| 5 | "Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power" | Rachel Goldberg | Laura Monti | October 9, 2024 |
| The coven find themselves being chased by the Salem Seven and rip out some tree branches to fly away. The Witches' Road pulls them to the ground and they enter the next trial which takes the form of a cabin with a 1980s aesthetic. The group must interact with an Ouija board and make contact with a spirit who reveals herself to be Evanora Harkness, Agatha's mother who was killed by her daughter in 1693 along with her previous coven. Warning the current coven against Agatha, Evanora possesses her and starts attacking the group. Alice uses her powers to expel Agatha, who proceeds to absorb her magic. The Teen, noticing another spirit's presence, tries to stop Agatha by shouting the spirit's name: Nicholas Scratch, Agatha's son. Agatha stops, but Alice dies. Agatha insists that it was accidental, while the Teen, having lost faith in her, lashes out. Both Lilia and Jen affirm, however, that their goal is the same as Agatha's, prompting the Teen to shun the coven for their disregard of life in search of power. Agatha mocks the Teen by stating that he is just like his mother, thus revealing Teen's true identity: Billy Kaplan, the reincarnated physical form of Billy Maximoff, Wanda and Vision's son. Angry, Billy magically controls Lilia and Jen's minds to make them toss Agatha into a mud trap before blasting them in as well. As the three witches submerge underground, a magical headwear appears on Billy's head. | ||||
| 6 | "Familiar by Thy Side" | Gandja Monteiro | Jason Rostovsky | October 16, 2024 |
| In flashbacks, William Kaplan, a teenager from Eastview, is celebrating his Bar Mitzvah when he encounters Lilia. Seeing something on his palm, Lilia writes the sigil spell to protect him, but forgets him as well. The party ends when the Hex created by Wanda begins to fall. While driving past Westview, William's parents have a car accident and he dies. At the same time, Billy Maximoff's soul enters William's body, awakening him. William has trouble adjusting after the accident due to his newfound ability to read the minds of those around him and his lack of memory of his life before. Three years later, William and his boyfriend Eddie meet with Ralph Bohner, who used to be controlled by Agatha inside Wanda's Hex. He tells them about what happened there and about Wanda's twins Billy and Tommy, making Billy realize who he is. Determined to use the Witches' Road to find Tommy, Billy goes to Agatha and undoes Wanda's spell. In the present, Agatha escapes the mud and confronts Billy. Realizing that the sigil has been destroyed, she deduces what his goal is and tells him that they must continue together, since Billy cannot control his power. | ||||
| 7 | "Death's Hand in Mine" | Jac Schaeffer | Gia King & Cameron Squires | October 23, 2024 |
| Agatha and Billy continue on the road before coming across a castle. Upon entering, the two are garbed as the Wicked Witch of the West and Maleficent, respectively, and are presented with tarot cards. If they do not place the proper cards in the correct sequence, swords above them fall, though they lower on their own. The rest of the episode is told from Lilia's perspective and out of order. A Flashback reveals that Lilia has been experiencing her life out of order, explaining her memory lapses. After falling through the mud, Lilia discovers that Rio is actually Death (something Agatha knew), threatening that her time is coming. She awakens Jen and after avoiding the Salem Seven, venture through the tunnels before reuniting with Agatha and Billy (Lilia is dressed as Glinda, Jen is dressed as the Evil Queen as a hag). Lilia discovers that the trial is for her and not Billy and places the proper cards in order, saving them all. As the exit opens, Lilia chooses to stay behind as the Salem Seven come down on her. She flips one of the cards, causing the entire room to flip, impaling the Seven as well as herself on the swords. | ||||
| 8 | "Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End" | Gandja Monteiro | Peter Cameron | October 30, 2024 |
| Agatha agrees to give Billy to Rio, who views him as an abomination for gaining a second life. Billy and Jen rejoin Agatha at the end of the Road, only to find that it goes in a circle. Billy puts his shoes back on, and the three are transported to a version of Agatha's basement with grow lights that slowly go out. Jen learns that Agatha was the witch who bound her and performs the unbinding spell. She regains her abilities and disappears, having gotten what she needed from the Road. Agatha helps Billy locate Tommy's soul, and Billy puts it in the body of a drowning boy. Billy disappears and Agatha grows a flower through a crack in the floor using a seed from her locket, completing the trial. She escapes and finds herself in her backyard, where Rio awaits her. Billy returns to aid her. Agatha attempts to give Billy up, but he convinces her to give herself up instead. Agatha kisses Rio and dies. Rio allows Billy to leave, and he returns home. Upon entering his room, he realizes that many of the objects in his bedroom match aspects of the Road and hears Agatha laughing. | ||||
| 9 | "Maiden Mother Crone" | Gandja Monteiro | Jac Schaeffer & Laura Donney | October 30, 2024 |
| In 1750, Agatha gives birth to Nicholas, but is warned by Death that she will eventually take him. Agatha spends the next six years absorbing other witches' essences while raising Nicholas. Together, they create what will eventually become the Ballad of the Witches' Road, a simple children's song. Eventually, Nicholas grows sick and Death takes him, greatly saddening Agatha. With nothing to hold her back, she spends the next centuries absorbing other witches' magic by tricking them into gathering covens to open the Road then aggravating them into attacking her. In the present, Agatha, now a ghost, tells Billy that he created the Road. He despairs, blaming himself for the deaths of Lilia, Alice, and Sharon, but Agatha tells him that she was going to kill them anyway and that he did rescue Jen. Billy returns to the house and tries to banish Agatha; she reveals that she is afraid of dying because she cannot face Nicholas. Billy allows Agatha to remain as a ghost. Deciding to take her on as a guide, closing the door of the Road and recording the names of Sharon, Alice and Lilia, Billy and Agatha set out to find Tommy. | ||||
Production
Development
In October 2021, Variety reported that Marvel Studios were developing a TV series featuring Agatha Harkness, with WandaVision head writer Jac Schaeffer serving as the writer and executive producer on the project.[1]
During the streamer's Disney Plus Day event on November 12, 2021, Disney+ unveiled the official title for the spinoff series, as well as an official logo.[2]
On July 22, 2022 during San Diego Comic Con, it was revealed that the official title had been moved under a different name, from its original title, Agatha: House of Harkness.[3]
On November 4, 2022, it was reported that Jac Schaeffer and Gandja Monteiro would be directing at least an episode each, and that it will consist of nine episodes.[4]
On March 11, 2024, it was reported that the series had been retitled yet again to Agatha.[5]
Filming
On September 6, 2022, it was reported that the working title of the series was My Pretty.[6]
On October 25, 2022, it was reported that the series is scheduled to begin production on December 5, in Atlanta.[7]
Filming officially began on December 13, 2022, and it wrapped up on May 30, 2023.[8]
Release
On July 16, 2022, it was reported that the series would premiere in Winter 2023.[9]
On September 1, 2023, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the series had been retitled to Agatha: Darkhold Diaries and that it would premiere in Fall 2024.[10]
On October 6, 2023, it was revealed that the series would premiere on September 18, 2024.[11]
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Trivia
- Agatha is the second Marvel character originating from a Disney+ series to star in her own spinoff. The first is Echo from Hawkeye.
- This series has had the most title changes compared to other Disney+ shows.
- The title is a reference to the song with the same name from WandaVision.
- This series is the second part of a trilogy, which started with WandaVision, and concludes with Vision Quest.[12]
- The series went through numerous titles before settling on Agatha All Along. It was first announced as Agatha: House of Harkness, before being retitled to Agatha: Coven of Chaos. This was its name for the longest time before getting retitled to Agatha: Darkhold Diaries. It then went by the simplistic title of Agatha, but was then retitled Agatha: The Lying Witch with Great Wardrobe, a nod to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.[13] This turned out to be a gag and the next day, the title Agatha All Along was revealed.
- The end credits feature a montage of witch related media, including:
- What appears to be the animated intro the ABC sitcom Bewitched, however Samantha is depicted with a purple dress and black hair in reference to Agatha Harkness.
- A scene from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs featuring The Evil Queen in her old hag disguise.
- An illustration of Dorothy Gale, Cowardly Lion, and the Tin Woodman from the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book by L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow. Interestingly, an image of The Wicked Witch is not depicted.
- An image from The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XIX" where Lisa dresses as a witch.
- A scene from the 1996 supernatural horror film The Craft.
- Every episode title comes from the lyrics of the "Ballad of the Witches' Road".
- Madisynn King was originally supposed to make a cameo at the Witches' Road but ultimately did not happen.[14]
- Miles Gutierrez-Riley's character Eddie was originally going to be named Teddy Altman, who was Wiccan's love interest in the comics, also named Hulking, but the idea was eventually dropped and instead have the character be called Eddie.[15]
- Several post-credit scenes were filmed for the finale, but Marvel eventually decided not to include them.[15]
- Agatha All Along marks the first time the titular character dies in their own Marvel TV show. It is also the first time a dead character returns as a ghost.
- All the sets for the series were practical.[16]
- The eighth episode reveals that the season takes place over 24 hours, from when Billy went to free Agatha from Wanda's spell, through the process of the witches road, to Agatha's death and Billy returning home to Eastview.
- The forms of the Salem Seven were real animals.[17]
- The Salem Seven are the daughters of the coven Agatha killed when she was on trial against her mother, which was shown in WandaVision. The clothes the Salem Seven wear are based on the 1690s era.[17]
References
External links
Agatha All Along on Wikipedia
Agatha All Along (TV series) on Disney+ Originals
Agatha All Along (TV series) on Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
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