Agatha All Alongside May Doubtlessly 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). May there be extra tales coming from past the Witches’ Street for Marvel’s spellbinding frenemies? A clue could lie within the earliest phases of the present’s awards-season push.

Variety picked up on this concept first: Disney is positioning Agatha All Alongside as a comedy collection 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 taking place!), its standing as a comic book guide adaptation type of mechanically pushes it in that route.

However it’s not the humorous classification that’s hinting at extra Agatha All Alongside seasons: it’s the truth that you’d count on a single-season present—which Agatha has lengthy been assumed to be—would submit within the “miniseries” or “restricted collection” class as a substitute. Agatha‘s predecessor, WandaVision, racked up 23 Emmy nominations, principally underneath the banner of “Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Film” (it ended up profitable three, together with for the outrageously catchy “Agatha All Alongside” tune). “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 almost about 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, much like what FX did with Shogun final 12 months, in the end setting the all-time profitable document for a drama collection.”

The foundations for what qualifies as a restricted collection and what doesn’t appear quite advanced (Variety digs deeper should you’re inquisitive about extra particulars), however the primary takeaway within the case of Agatha All Alongside appears to be that the present might, possibly, maybe return. There are definitely some free ends ready to be pursued if that’s the case—like, the place the hell is Tommy?

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