AGATHA ALL ALONG: SOON TO BE FORGOTTEN TELEVISION?

It looks like it will be tomorrow at the earliest that I make my full blog post about the latest attempt on the life of de facto Third Party President Donald Trump. So here’s a much lighter topic.

AGATHA ALL ALONG SCREWS UP BIG-TIME – Hey, I enjoyed the song Agatha All Along from WandaVision back in 2021 as much as anybody, and I was initially curious about what Kathryn Hahn would do as the star of an Agatha Harkness spinoff show. (For Agatha and the Scarlet Witch fighting Necrodamus click HERE.)

Then came the multiple title changes for the upcoming series as Disney went from Diary of Darkness, Coven of Chaos, House of Harkness and Darkhold Diaries before finally settling on the obvious choice. House of Harkness as a title made me hope that it would be an anthology series with Hahn acting in-character as Agatha camping it up like an old-time Movie Hostess. (Think Vampira, Moona Lisa, Elvira, Stella from Saturday Night Dead, etc.) 

I could see it being used for pilot stories about Marvel’s many horror characters like the Simon Garth Zombie, Ghost Rider, Morbius the Living Vampire, Satana the Devil’s Daughter, the Living Mummy, the vampire Lilith and many more. You know, testing the waters to see if each character proved popular enough for their own series or movie. When the Werewolf by Night project was announced it got my hopes up even more that it might indeed feature Kathryn Hahn as Agatha doing an intro and outro.

Unfortunately, Disney is making Agatha All Along a traditional sequel to WandaVision. AND THEY’VE ALREADY BLOWN WHAT WAS INTENDED AS THE SHOW’S BIG REVEAL! Don’t read any further if you want to watch the series and are among the few people who didn’t catch the way Disney’s promo staff gave away the program’s big surprise before they could try covering it back up.

***NEWS – SEPT 19th- Not only did they already blow the big surprise on IMDb, but it was blown last night by crediting the character I mention below BY NAME IN THE CLOSED CAPTIONS! And that’s WHILE they’re making a big deal of a magic spell not letting Agatha hear clues to who he is. Hilarious!

The Disney people who provided the IMDb info about Agatha All Along didn’t realize they were giving the game away by listing co-star Joe Locke as “Billy” in the credits. Locke’s character serves as the catalyst for the program’s storyline, audiences were told, so many rushed to IMDb to look up Locke and the other characters.

Seeing the young actor credited as “Billy” made it very easy for fans to deduce that he was playing Billy Maximoff, one of the Scarlet Witch’s sons who inherited some of Wanda’s powers. Excited fan discussions blew up on the internet until finally people at Disney realized what a “D’OH!” moment they had carelessly created for themselves. 

At first they just changed Joe Locke’s character credit to “Teen” and now have changed it again by just removing any name for his character. Coming on the heels of the Disney disaster The Acolyte, this was not a good sign for Agatha All Along.

Obviously, the show might recover from the embarrassment of trying to build up mystery around Joe Locke’s Teen character even though everyone will be laughing because they already know who he is. But if the writing is once again as bad as on Disney’s The Acolyte the program’s troubles may be just beginning. 

FOR MORE FORGOTTEN TELEVISION ENTRIES CLICK HERE.