You’re wasting your Disney+ subscription if you’re not watching this Marvel series, which is more important than it seems

Warning, this article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along.

In January 2021, Marvel will launch its first live-action Marvel series on Disney+. La Maison des Idées offers this honor to showrunner Jacques Schaffer. He and his team with WandaVision delivered one of Marvel’s best performances to date, with a human, touching, and ultra-relatable story that managed to capture the audience’s interest. Like its title track, which you can sing at the top of your lungs after hearing it:

Three years later, Schaefer struck again with the spin-off Agatha All Along. And after the final double episode aired on October 31st, we can now say it’s the best yet the narrator from Marvel. And the audience who It went up week by week Thanks to the very good word and the growing intrigue, there is proof of that.

Rehabilitation of the antagonist

Before WandaVision, audiences had never heard of Agatha Harkness, a witch who appeared sporadically in Marvel comics. Introduced as Wanda Maximoff’s (Elizabeth Olsen) nemesis, he offers himself a rehab of sorts thanks to this spin-off.

This is an opportunity for the writers to develop her character and past to find out how and why she became a witch with a terrible reputation. The revelations made in the last double episode involving her son Nicholas show us another side of her personality: a mother struggling with death and still haunted by the disappearance of her only child.

The series portrays this mother-daughter relationship in the on-screen “friendship” shared between Agatha and the teenager. And the obvious chemistry between Kathryn Hahn and Joe Locke adds an extra layer of emotion.

Agatha’s final form, which the writers wanted from the beginning, and which is one of the ones she takes in the comics, allows Marvel to open the door for Wanda’s return to cinema.

We’re just waiting for one thing now: for the studios to announce the start of a movie about the (presumably dead) Scarlet Witch, featuring her new mentor… Agatha!

The arrival of the new Avengers

(Warning, this paragraph especially spoils the identity of the teenage character)

As we explained in this article, Agatha All Along is also an excuse to introduce a brand new Avengers to the MCU: Billy Maximoff, aka Wiccan, aka the Teenager. The series explains how the spirit of the son of the Scarlet Witch entered the body of a teenager. The latter has the same power as her mother: she can read minds and create worlds that don’t exist (like… the road for example).

Bill, like his brother Tom, has his place in the team of young Avengers that Miss Marvel wants to put together. And even if the movie hasn’t been announced yet, we can imagine all these young superheroes in the next two Avengers installments. Now it’s up to Marvel to find an actor to play Tommy aka Speed ​​on the big screen, as he’s the only thing left unresolved at the end of Agatha All Along.

Definitely a weird series

Aubrey Plaza promised us, Agatha All Along is crucial strange. But without doing it in a rude way. The writers bring out their protagonist’s sexuality quite naturally, as well as his relationship with Ryo during a scene full of tenderness and sadness. We quickly learn that the two women had a relationship in the past and that a traumatic event drove them apart.

We have to wait until the last episode for Agatha and Ryo to exchange a passionate kiss. A scene that’s more important than it seems because it’s the first lesbian kiss in a Marvel production. In November 2021, the movie Eternals already paved the way with the character of Fastos (Brian Tyree Henry), the MCU’s first gay superhero, who kisses her husband.

Agatha All Along is, of course, a Marvel series, but the subtlety and hidden details of its writing, the different levels of reading in each episode, as well as the quality of its distribution (hearts to you, Patti LuPone) allow it to transcend those boundaries and join WandaVision And in the pantheon of Loki’s best platform performances.