Agatha All Along's ending teases Billy Maximoff's ongoing story, it's inevitable to wonder about the status of a potential second season. TV series in the MCU have previously not used showrunners, but the studio pivoted with their latest releases, like Daredevil: Born Again, and WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer was the showrunner of Agatha All Along. This marks a change in strategy for the studio, which points toward the possibility of Agatha All Along season 2, or even something else in its place.
After Agatha All Along's excellent cast - or those who survived, anyway - it's just a matter of when and how that plays out.
Agatha All Along Season 2 Has Not Been Confirmed By Marvel
Only One Season Of The MCU Series Has Been Ordered (So Far)
Most MCU shows tend to only get a single season, but the tide may be changing there following shake-ups to how Marvel Studios approaches their television projects. The most notable is Daredevil: Born Again, which was optioned for two seasons, but that means very little for Agatha All Along. Crucially, the WandaVision spin-off was a hit, both in of ratings and viewer numbers, and success - particularly at the lower cost reportedly associated with Agatha All Along - always breeds confidence.
As it stands, no official plans have been revealed for Agatha All Along season 2. The show was greenlit as a single-season entity, like WandaVision before it, and Ruaridh Mollica added to the cast, with the possibility of him being Tommy, fit with where Agatha All Along's ending winds up, so it definitely feels like something else is coming.
Agatha All Along Revives Phase 5's Post-Credits Trend In The Perfect Way
Agatha All Along's final episode sets up a promising future, but continues a Phase 5 trend that would have been unthinkable not so long ago.
Showrunner Jac Schaeffer has said she has no plans for a Young Avengers project, but Billy and Agatha setting out to find Tommy's reincarnated soul in the finale could well be the biggest hint of how Agatha All Along continues. In all likelihood, Young Avengers could be a replacement project that carries on both Billy and Tommy's story, especially if Agatha All Along doesn't get a second season, and VisionQuest doesn't focus on them as much.
It's unlikely that Agatha All Along will actually get a second season, but Jac Schaeffer recently spoke with ScreenRant about the possibility of more stories being told with these characters, and where she would like to see them in future projects in the MCU, which seems to indicate that at least some of the characters will be back in a Marvel Studios production, stating:
I sort of don't think about it in of, “What is the project?” It's more the characters, and all of these characters in this corner of the sandbox– Agatha, the Maximoffs, the townspeople of Westview, our coven… they all interest me. I mean, particularly Ralph Bohner. It’s a stable of performers and characters that are so close to my heart, so it's really about them. Where they appear, I don't know, but I am interested in being a part of those storylines at some point again.
Agatha All Along Season 2 Cast: Who Could Return?
Season 1 Was A Blood Bath, But Key Players Could Still Come Back
Agatha All Along was not only one of the scariest Marvel properties yet, it was also one of the bloodiest, with several key characters dying along the way. Several of Agatha's new coven were killed off - including Agatha herself, Debra Jo Rupp's Sharon, Ali Ahn's Alice Wu-Gulliver, and Patti LuPone's Lilia Calderu - but Joe Locke's Billy Maximoff, Sasheer Zamata's Jennifer Kale, and Aubrey Plaza's Rio Vidal all make it.
Agatha, of course, lives on as a ghost, and seemingly sets up a new dynamic where she becomes Billy's guide on the road to find his missing brother, Tommy. Her soul not being collected by Death could see Rio Vidal come back into play, too, and the popularity of the character and Plaza's performance suggest that would be a good decision.
Agatha All Along Showrunner Reveals How The Cast Pulled Off The Big Twist Of The Road Not Being Real And The Only Time Agatha Was Telling The Truth
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Jennifer Kale's next steps are less certain: she regains her powers when she's unbound, but she immediately flees Westview with an almost comic lack of consideration for Billy, and her return could go either way at this stage. It's not like she owes Billy anything after he put her in mortal peril.
Agatha All Along Season 2 Story: How The Ending Sets Up The Future
Agatha & Billy's Future Could Integrate More With Avengers Stories
The seeds of WandaVision have been firmly planted in the MCU, and will continue to be explored in Vision Quest, if not in the long-discussed Scarlet Witch solo project. Agatha All Along also sets up Billy's future mission to find his twin brother Tommy, who is reincarnated in episode 8 into the body of another teen who dies in a prank gone wrong. Billy sees a vision of that happening, but it's only in flashes, so the next step of the story is finding out where Tommy's soul ended up.
Billy can also count on Agatha as his guide, after she sacrificed herself to spare him from Death in the penultimate episode. He then essentially forces her to agree to accompany him, as the pair leave Westview behind entirely. It already feels like this is setting up a version of Marvel's Avengers: The Children's Crusade, given how Billy and Tommy's stories will have to reckon with Scarlet Witch's legacy, and their relationship. It presumably will not be a pure adaptation, because too many elements would have to change, but certain broad strokes could still work in the MCU.
In that same ScreenRant conversation where Jac Schaeffer discussed next projects for the characters, she talked about the choice to have Agatha not necessarily be redeemed by the end of Agatha All Along, but also about her aversion to seeing her son again, and her relationships with the other of the coven, which shows that there is still a lot of Agatha's story left to explore if they decide to do another season. Her statement is as follows:
It was really early that we, meaning me and my producer, Mary Livanos and Brad Winderbaum, who runs Marvel TV, sort of held hands and decided this was not going to be a redemption arc–that Agatha was not a character that we wanted to make cuddly. We didn't ever want her to be toothless. She has a heart and she has a code, and she has ions and motivations. She's not Thanos. There's so much nuance to her. But I wanted her to connect with Billy, connect with the women in her coven, to see a romantic past of hers, to know that she has a beating heart, but that she can't quite get there to apologize for things or be a good person. It just didn't feel right for her. As far as facing her son, I hope for her that someday that's something she can do, but I think she's got a long road.
Elsewhere, Vision Quest is sure to follow up on the seeds left behind by WandaVision, and possibly also Agatha All Along, and there is a chance Billy and Agatha turn up in that series. It seems unlikely that Vision's story won't eventually come back around to the fate of his children, potentially furthering the story of magic and Wanda Maximoff in the MCU. And while there has been talk of a potential Scarlet Witch return to the MCU, Agatha All Along surprisingly avoided a direct setup.
Agatha All Along
- Release Date
- 2024 - 2024-00-00
- Showrunner
- Jac Schaeffer
- Directors
- Jac Schaeffer, Gandja Monteiro, Rachel Goldberg
Cast
Agnes O'Connor / Agatha Harkness
Joe LockeTeen
WHERE TO WATCH
Agatha Harkness, after the events of "WandaVision," seeks to regain her magical powers. ing forces with unexpected allies, including the son of an old adversary, she battles new mystical threats while uncovering hidden secrets in the magical realm.
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