Agatha All Alongside Might Probably Forged a Spell for Extra Seasons

Final week’s two-part season finale of Agatha All Alongside answered a few of our questions on its surviving characters—nevertheless it additionally ended with the start of an entire new journey for Billy (Joe Locke) and Agatha (Kathryn Hahn). Might there be extra tales coming from past the Witches’ Highway for Marvel’s spellbinding frenemies? A clue might lie within the earliest levels of the present’s awards-season push.

Variety picked up on this concept first: Disney is positioning Agatha All Alongside as a comedy sequence in its submissions to the Golden Globes, Emmy Awards, SAG Awards, and extra. Whereas the present didn’t all the time match that class (as hinted above… there was lots of loss of life happening!), its standing as a comic book e book adaptation kind of mechanically pushes it in that path.

Nevertheless it’s not the humorous classification that’s hinting at extra Agatha All Alongside seasons: it’s the truth that you’d anticipate a single-season present—which Agatha has lengthy been assumed to be—would submit within the “miniseries” or “restricted sequence” class as an alternative. Agatha‘s predecessor, WandaVision, racked up 23 Emmy nominations, largely beneath the banner of “Restricted or Anthology Collection or Film” (it ended up successful three, together with for the outrageously catchy “Agatha All Alongside” music). “Comedy” implies, effectively, a second season might effectively be within the tarot playing cards.

As Selection additional factors out, placing Agatha All Alongside within the comedy class means it might go up towards some formidable competitors, together with earlier winners The Bear, Hacks, and Abbott Elementary. The commerce additionally affords additional perception and context with reference to the Emmys particularly: “Though the present was conceived as a miniseries, the announcement concerning its class shifts strongly signifies that Agatha All Alongside … might proceed past a single season … There was no official phrase from Disney or Marvel concerning a renewal. Nonetheless, the studio must show to the TV Academy that extra seasons are deliberate or make an official announcement, just like what FX did with Shogun final yr, finally setting the all-time successful report for a drama sequence.”

The principles for what qualifies as a restricted sequence and what doesn’t appear slightly complicated (Variety digs deeper when you’re involved in extra particulars), however the principle takeaway within the case of Agatha All Alongside appears to be that the present might, possibly, maybe return. There are actually some unfastened ends ready to be pursued if that’s the case—like, the place the hell is Tommy?

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