Marvel's Agatha All Along: Release Date and Everything to Know About the WandaVision Spin-Off

After years of upheaval, constant rewrites of every story, and much grumbling from fans, the Marvel Cinematic Universe landed a big win in July with Deadpool & Wolverine. While it's not hard to see how that one turned into a huge hit at the box office, the next MCU release, Agatha All Along on Disney+, is going to have to work a little harder to grab that big of an audience, since it doesn't have a title character who's built up decades of goodwill with basically everyone the way that Hugh Jackman's Logan has.

It's been a strange few years for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with fans slowly turning on the biggest franchise in the world as it churned out one context-free standalone story after another, both in theaters and on Disney+. WandaVision kicked off this stage of the MCU — Phase 4 — in Jan. 2021, which then led to Wanda Maximoff's fight with Doctor Strange in his second movie. But the MCU has felt so disconnected recently that WandaVision — considered by many to be the best live-action Marvel TV series of the streaming era — has gotten lost in the shuffle and seemingly forgotten by the rest of the franchise. But that's about to change in a big way, when the WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Along premieres this fall. 

It's an interesting time to drop a new season of Marvel television; as Deadpool himself cracks in Deadpool & Wolverine, the franchise is experiencing "a bit of a low point" right now, particularly after The Marvels delivered the franchise's biggest box office bomb ever last fall and Marvel's near-future plans were disrupted by the firing of Jonathan Majors (he was supposed to be the MCU's next Thanos-level baddie, but was kicked out of all things Disney after his 2023 domestic abuse conviction). All of that had taken some of the pressure off of Agatha All Along — but now it has to follow up on the gargantuan success of Deadpool & Wolverine.

And unlike that film, which is all about reminding you of stuff you already like or otherwise know about, Agatha All Along will take us into uncharted magical territory for Marvel, and that brings plenty of uncertainty. But the MCU could certainly use something actually different from its normal mode of doing things, and Agatha All Along could fit that bill, much like the splendid WandaVision did.

Agatha All Along premiere date

Mark Wednesday, Sept. 18 on your calendar; that's when Agatha All Along is slated to drop its two-episode premiere on Disney+. The remaining seven episodes will be released weekly. 

Agatha All Along episode count

There will be nine episodes in Season 1 of Agatha All Along. The premiere will consist of two episodes. Agatha All Along will be a miniseries, so don't expect a Season 2. However, if it does really well, media corporations have a tendency to retract their classifications (see: Shōgun, Big Little Lies). 

Agatha All Along trailer

At August's D23 event, in which Disney spent two days plugging literally everything it's got, Marvel gave us a new trailer for Agatha All Along, featuring a new song that made its debut on the D23 stage: "The Ballad of the Witches' Road." That song has a distinctively musical theater tone to it, and that in turn gives Agatha All Along a little bit of a Wicked vibe. It's hard to know what, if anything, to make of that, but it's probably a good thing. Check it out.

Marvel previously dropped a pretty beefy trailer for the miniseries that will give you a pretty good idea of what we're in for — things are about to get spooky, funny, and extremely full of CGI environments. Check it out.

Agatha All Along's storyline

The story for Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) picks up after the events of WandaVision — Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) fought and defeated Agatha, taking her power in the process and leaving her stuck in one of Wanda's reality illusions. That is, until some of her other witch pals showed up and freed her, allowing Agatha the chance to regain what she's lost... or so she hoped. And to get there, she'll have to team up with a teen played by Heartstopper's Joe Locke. (That teen is rumored to be Billy Kaplan, one of Wanda's multiverse sons.)

Agatha All Along cast and crew

WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer returns in that same role for Agatha All Along, and she also directed some of the episodes, too. 

Kathryn Hahn isn't the only cast member returning from WandaVision. She's joined by Debra Jo Rupp, who was one of Wanda's neighbors in Westview — and, it turns out, she was secretly a witch too. 

The rest of the main cast is all new folks to the MCU, including Aubrey Plaza and Patti LuPone.

Agatha All Along cast:

• Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness, the witch who was known as Agnes in WandaVision
• Joe Locke as a mysterious goth teen, officially known so far as Teen
• Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon Davis, Agatha's former neighbor and a witch
  
• Aubrey Plaza as the witch Rio Vidal, a warrior witch
• Patti LuPone as Lilia Calderu, a 450-year old witch
• Ali Ahn as Alice Wu-Gulliver, another witch
• Sasheer Zamata as Jennifer Kale, another witch in Agatha's coven. This will be Jennifer Kale's live-action debut in the MCU.

What's up with Agatha All Along's title?

On WandaVision, when Agatha revealed her witchy ways at the end of Epsiode 7, she did so with a song: "Agatha All Along." It's delightful.

What do I need to watch before Agatha All Along premieres?

As far as we know, the two precursors for this miniseries are WandaVision and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which are the only MCU stories related to Agatha at all thus far.