Agatha All Along Could Potentially Cast a Spell for More Seasons

Last week’s two-part play finale of Agatha All Along answered immoderate of our questions astir its surviving characters—but it besides ended with the opening of a full caller travel for Billy (Joe Locke) and Agatha (Kathryn Hahn). Could determination beryllium much tales coming from beyond the Witches’ Road for Marvel’s spellbinding frenemies? A hint whitethorn prevarication successful the earliest stages of the show’s awards-season push.

Variety picked up connected this thought first: Disney is positioning Agatha All Along arsenic a drama bid successful its submissions to the Golden Globes, Emmy Awards, SAG Awards, and more. While the amusement didn’t ever acceptable that class (as hinted above… determination was a batch of decease going down!), its presumption arsenic a comic publication adaptation benignant of automatically pushes it successful that direction.

But it’s not the humorous classification that’s hinting astatine much Agatha All Along seasons: it’s the information that you’d expect a single-season show—which Agatha has agelong been assumed to be—would taxable successful the “miniseries” oregon “limited series” class instead. Agatha‘s predecessor, WandaVision, racked up 23 Emmy nominations, mostly nether the banner of “Limited oregon Anthology Series oregon Movie” (it ended up winning three, including for the outrageously catchy “Agatha All Along” song). “Comedy” implies, well, a 2nd play could good beryllium successful the tarot cards.

As Variety further points out, putting Agatha All Along successful the drama class means it could spell up against immoderate formidable competition, including erstwhile winners The Bear, Hacks, and Abbott Elementary. The commercialized besides offers further penetration and discourse with regards to the Emmys specifically: “Although the amusement was conceived arsenic a miniseries, the announcement regarding its class shifts powerfully indicates that Agatha All Along … could proceed beyond a azygous play … There has been nary authoritative connection from Disney oregon Marvel regarding a renewal. Still, the workplace would person to beryllium to the TV Academy that much seasons are planned oregon marque an authoritative announcement, akin to what FX did with Shogun last year, yet mounting the all-time winning grounds for a play series.”

The rules for what qualifies arsenic a constricted bid and what doesn’t look alternatively analyzable (Variety digs deeper if you’re funny successful much details), but the main takeaway successful the lawsuit of Agatha All Along seems to beryllium that the amusement could, maybe, perhaps return. There are surely immoderate escaped ends waiting to beryllium pursued if so—like, wherever the hellhole is Tommy?

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