Contrary to what Patti LuPone might think, another season of Agatha All Along isn’t off the table. Brad Winderbaum, head of streaming, television, and animation at Marvel, recently told Entertainment Weekly that the MCU’s witchy series starring Kathryn Hahn has “linear series potential.” He explained, “A show like Agatha, to me, is concept based. Yes, a second season for sure is something that we would want to do, but let’s not rush it. Let’s get the right idea and then make it.”
His comments align with Disney’s attempt to get the Marvel Cinematic Universe back on track by trying to “reduce output and focus more on quality,” as CEO Bob Iger proclaimed last year. With an eye on audiences’ so-called superhero fatigue, it makes sense to slow down the pace and drill down on story, particularly on television. But if they do go that route with Agatha, they’ll have to do so with a new showrunner, according to LuPone. She told Andy Cohen on his Sirius XM show that there wouldn’t be another season: “Jac Schaeffer, the creator, came into my trailer and she said, ‘Patti, I’m just here to tell you that Lilia’s going to die,’ and I went, ‘But I wanted a second season,'” LuPone recalled (via The Wrap). “[Schaffer] said, ‘I don’t do second seasons.’ … She said, ‘They wanted me to do a second season of WandaVision and I didn’t.’ She said, ‘There’s too much to write,’ so she does one-offs and I’m really hoping and praying that someday I get to work with her again because she’s magic.”
Perhaps Schaeffer will pick up another toy in the Marvel sandbox. (She’ll remain in the Disney stable at least long enough to direct the pilot episode of the inexplicable female Holes reboot, per Variety.) But at Marvel, any show—much like any character—can be revived at any time. “Hawkeye is another one that feels like you can make a second season of that show because it’s Christmas, because it’s Clint and Kate,” Winderbaum teased of the series starring Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld. “You can kind of revisit it whenever, and we’re looking for opportunities to do that. But as we develop things for the future, I think they’re going to be designed to be multiple seasons, have more of a pattern, and be able to be released annually.” Daredevil fans win this round.
