Avengers movies and a side of
Captain America: Civil War failed to take: We finally learned what had made Wanda Maximoff who she is. But in Agatha Harkness, we learned something of ourselves in the process. Perhaps wanting to know it all is not always the best option.
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As a TV show within the grand cultural behemoth that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
WandaVision is no exception to the puzzlebox economy that fuels fandom discourse. As Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision’s (Paul Bettany) televisual surreality has broken down bit by bit, the questions that have dominated the discussion around the show have been about how long it took for things to start connecting to the wider material.
Marvel Releases Agatha All Along Theme Song From WandaVision
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NOTE: Spoilers ahead for “WandaVision” Episode 7.
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Arguably the most aggressive earworm to date, “Agatha All Along,” debuted at the end of the seventh episode of “WandaVision.” It’s now available on Spotify in the “WandaVision: Episode 7 (Original Soundtrack)” playlist.
Penned by the Tony and Oscar-winning duo Kristen-Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez (“Frozen,” “Coco,” “The Book of Mormon”) this “Munsters” channeling ditty kicked off a whole new layer to the Disney Plus series.
In the first episode, Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) was introduced as Wanda and Vision’s nosy neighbor in their seemingly idyllic suburban life. As the story began to unravel, fans began to speculate who Hahn’s character really was. At the end of episode seven, which was titled “Breaking the Fourth Wall,” it was revealed Agnes was actually the
WandaVision: New Hero, New Villains, More Fantastic Four Ties
WandaVision came back with a
Modern Family themed edition which saw Wanda, Vision, and Agnes talking straight into the camera as character do on the popular ABC sitcom. It resulted in a step back in pacing after things were heating up in the recent episodes but also delivered a new super hero to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, just moment beforee it revealed the villain who has been pulling all of the strings in Westview. Spoilers follow!
In comics, Agatha Harkness first appeared in
Fantastic Four #94 in January of 1970. She was around in the 17th Century’s Salem Witch Trials and has been heavily involved in a lot of stories with Wanda throughout Marvel Comics titles and she’s also been a nanny for Franklin Richards, the child of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, not unlike how she has watched Billy and Tommy in WandaVision. That said, she also has ties to Mephisto and is the one who, in comics, explains Billy and Tomm
WandaVision’s “Agatha All Along” gets the trap remix it deserves
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To be honest, we all kinda saw it coming but that didn’t make the big
WandaVision reveal about Katherine Hahn’s character any less fun when it played out with an Agatha theme song on Friday’s episode of the Disney+ series.
A quick recap for those of you who either don’t watch
Wanda or have been under the mind control of a certain Sarkovian: In episode seven, “Breaking The Fourth Wall,” it’s revealed that Agatha (Katherine Hahn) has secretly been pulling a lot of the strings behind the scenes in Wanda’s (diss-track survivor Elizabeth Olsen) oasis of mind-controlled domestic bliss, Westview. We now know nosy neighbor Agatha is actually Agatha Harkness and that she sabotaged the talent show in “Don’t Touch That Dial” and put Herb (David Payton) under her spell in “Now In Color.” She’s even responsible for Fake Pietro’s (Evan Peters) a
The latest episode of WandaVision sees big secrets revealed as the artificiality of Westview is exposed to our heroes. But in a sweet, small moment, The Vision embraces the fantasy of TV in a conversation with Darcy, to center on what he knows to be true.