Agatha All Along review: will there be a season 2?

I finished Agatha All Along, and my verdict is that it delivered. It was an entertaining show all the way through. It knew who it was made for and never strayed from that. The series is Marvel's 2024 Disney+ spinoff starring Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke and Aubrey Plaza. I talked it through in a spoiler-heavy review with Roxy and Brett, and the conversation quickly turned to whether a second season was in the cards.

Agatha All Along was made for a specific audience, and it never strayed from it

I want to preface everything with this: Agatha All Along was very much intended for a specific audience. Roxy agreed with that. The question for me was whether it ever drifted away from serving that audience. It didn't. It kept a Halloween vibe throughout the entire run, and it was consistent from start to finish.

The second question was whether it also entertained viewers who weren't necessarily the target. I think the answer was yes. It was a good Halloween type of show, and it never strayed from what it wanted to be.

Kathryn Hahn carried the show, and Joe Locke was good

The series was carried by the electric Kathryn Hahn as Agatha.

I also thought Joe Locke, who plays the main kid, was good. I blanked on his name in the moment, and Roxy had to help me with it.

The Agatha All Along ending was interesting, and it could feed into the MCU

Overall, I thought it was a pretty good show, and I thought the ending was very interesting. Part of that comes from something it did that I didn't expect. By the end, I could see how Marvel could take elements of the series and add them into the wider MCU.

I also think Marvel spent its money wisely here. The studio didn't overspend. It was a less produced, lower budgeted show, and it worked as a nice type of spinoff. The ratings also picked up as it went along.

The Agatha All Along ending looked like it was setting up a search for the brother

In the discussion, I was asked whether anyone had said a second season was happening. I didn't know if it would be called Agatha All Along season two. Going by the spoiler-filled ending, though, it looked like they were going to be looking for the brother. With how it ended, you would think they would at least want to do a second one.

I brought up a report from the time about how Disney and Marvel Television Studios were positioning the show. The report said that although the show was conceived as a miniseries, it was not going to be competing under the limited series category for awards. It said that strongly suggested a plan to continue beyond a single season.

The report explained that awards bodies define a limited series as a complete, nonrecurring story, without ongoing storylines or main characters carrying into later seasons. It noted there had been no official word from Disney or Marvel on a renewal at that point. It pointed to Shogun as a precedent: that show switched from a limited series to a drama series, and a second season announcement followed.

Roxy doubted an Agatha All Along season 2

I asked Roxy, as the television person, whether that pointed to a second season. She didn't see it. Her view was that the story ahead is a team-up to find the brother, and that it all ties in with other Marvel material coming up.

Roxy pointed out that many of these Marvel shows haven't had a second season, WandaVision among them. Her read was that Marvel doesn't seem to do second seasons to continue a story as much as it launches a different show to tell a different kind of story.

I still thought it would get a second season, but I admitted Roxy might have changed my mind. My thinking moved toward a spinoff that would probably be called something different. It was also suggested in the discussion that he would be in the lead and the story would tie into the kids finding each other.

Wanda not showing up, and the case for a Young Avengers show

The question of Wanda not appearing came up too. There had been talk that she might show up. Roxy said she never expected her to appear, so she felt good about how it played out.

The discussion then turned to a Young Avengers show. The idea is that if Billy and Agatha go looking for Tommy and can't find him, they might have to pull together a motley crew of Young Avengers to help. In that version, the next chapter isn't Agatha All Along at all. It's Young Avengers season one.

One view on the show was that the Young Avengers should get a TV show and that there could eventually be a movie, while another was that they shouldn't be a movie because they haven't earned one yet. With X-Men, Fantastic Four and the Avengers all in the mix, the question was where a Young Avengers film would even fit. That leaves my verdict where it started: Agatha All Along was a consistent, well-budgeted, entertaining show carried by Kathryn Hahn, with an ending I thought was very interesting.