Agatha All Along‘s Name Changes Were Always a Gag

In conscionable implicit a week, Marvel’s upcoming WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Along, starring Kathryn Hahn, volition soon bewitch Disney+ subscribers. While the show’s three-year development—which saw galore rubric changes—would different awesome a show’s troubled development, the show’s enforcement shaper has revealed that it was really portion of an elaborate prank connected Marvel fans.

In an interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, Agatha All Along enforcement shaper Mary Livanos revealed that the show’s rotating doorway of sanction changes wasn’t a effect of absorption investigating that had gone awry. In reality, it was the writers’ country flexing their proverbial comic bones to spot however galore believably fake TV amusement titles they could develop.

“Hats disconnected to Jac Shaeffer connected that one, and our unthinkable writers’ room, with the champion time of brainstorming I deliberation we’ve ever had, figuring retired each those titles,” Livanos told THR. “It was a existent blast to merchandise crazier and crazier ones arsenic the accumulation went on, and our formed was truthful game, too. The quality of the stunt felt precise Agatha.”

Key among Agatha All Along‘s shortlist of fake rubric paper names (and the clip framework successful which they were changed) are arsenic follows:

• Agatha: House of Harkness: The show’s archetypal announcement rubric backmost successful 2021
• Agatha: Coven of Chaos: The show’s changed rubric successful July 2022
• Agatha: Darkhold Diaries: The show’s updated rubric successful September 2023
• Agatha: The Lying Witch with The Great Wardrobe: Arguably the funniest rubric was uploaded and swiftly deleted by Marvel backmost successful May.

As with astir jokes, the wide effectiveness of Agatha All Along bibbidi-bobbidi-boo’ed rubric changes arsenic a gag connected 1 of popular culture’s astir attention-detailed audiences is subjective. However, if anyone is going to spearhead an Agatha-inspired ruse, it would beryllium the folks who helped make WandaVision an Emmy-nominated show. A show, caput you, that already went beauteous chaotic connected the full meta-reality-breaking shenanigans.

What’s not a gag is however stacked Agatha All Along‘s formed is. Aside from the returning Hahn, Agatha All Along volition prima Aubrey Plaza, Joe Locke, Ali Ahn, Maria Dizzia, Paul Adelstein, Miles Guitierrez-RIley, Okwui Okpokwasili, Debra Jo Rupp, and Patti LuPone. What’s more, showrunner Schaeffer promises that the amusement volition thin adjacent heavier into benignant and self-awareness done its wardrobe and accumulation design. Whether that means the amusement volition spot the usage of applicable effects oregon settee for simply paying homage to the 1998 movie Practical Magic has yet to beryllium seen.

Agatha All Along premiers connected September 18 connected Disney+.

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