Good news for Marvel fans who want a second season of Agatha All Along

Agatha All Along, which for my money is the best show to come out of Marvel Studios in a minute, ended on a cliffhanger, as Marvel shows tend to do. Lead character Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) is dead, but has returned as a ghost. Together, she will help Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) find his brother, who was recently reincarnated via a chain of events too confusing to recount here. The show's pretty good; you can watch all nine episodes on Disney+.

"I think that people are meant to expect more of Billy and Agatha somewhere in the MCU," creator Jac Schaffer told Entertainment Weekly. Ah, but where? In the MCU, characters are known to bounce between shows and movies. Might Agatha and Billy get their own film, The Adventures of Witch Boy and Ghost Girl? Could they show up in Vision Quest, a new show being developed around the character of Vision (Paul Bettany). Both that show and Agatha All Along, after all, are spinoffs of WandaVision, the first MCU show. Or might there even be a second season of Agatha All Along?

Schaffer has no idea; she created Agatha All Along, but its future is in Marvel's hands. "The intention is that Billy now has Agatha as his spirit guide, and that Billy wants to find Tommy," she told The Hollywood Reporter. "How? When? Where? I don’t know the answers to those questions." But there's some evidence that Marvel wants to go the route of giving the show a whole second season. As Variety noticed, Agatha All Along has been submitted in the Comedy categories for upcoming awards shows like the Emmys, the Golden Globes, and the SAG Awards. Usually, a show is only submitted in those categories if it's going to run multiple seasons. If it's only meant to run the one season, it's submitted into "Limited Series" categories.

This isn't confirmation of anything, but the end of Agatha All Along did obviously leave room for more story. The show has gotten strong ratings and critical acclaim, so maybe Marvel wants to double down on success.

Agatha All Along was braver than a lot of Marvel shows: It killed people

And there are dangling threads to resolve should the decision-makers at Marvel choose to go there. For instance, although she was mentioned a fair amount, we never got a cameo from Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch, who died in 2022's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. “[Wanda’s resurrection] wasn’t really a for-real conversation, and to speak plainly, it’s a larger conversation of casting, logistics, availability, and budget,” Schaeffer told THR. “Also, to me, on a creative level, it didn’t feel fair to the character of Agatha. This is her story, and the idea of bringing Wanda back felt like it would upend that in a way.”

I agree with that, but Schaeffer freely admits that death is often pretty ephemeral in the world of comics. I was surprised by how many characters died in Agatha All Along: of the original gaggle of people who set off on the witches road, only Billy and Jen (Sasheer Zamata) survived...plus Agatha is a ghost, which is kind of getting off on a technicality, but that's very much her speed so we'll let it slide. Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp), Alice (Ali Ahn) and Lilia (Patti LuPone) all went down. That's a high body count for a Marvel show.

It helps that Death was literally a character on the show, played to perfection by Aubrey Plaza. "The fact that we then brought Death on as a character, it felt like our job was to have a more honest exploration of death and how people meet their ends and the permanence of that," Schaffer said. "So it wasn’t me reacting to the landscape, but I did see it as an opportunity to do something unexpected. People are wired to expect a proper happy ending, and we did write that, but it felt disingenuous. So we went for the real."

So we're not sure what happens next. But fans can rest assured that Agatha and Billy will show up at some point. As to where, we'll keep watching.

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