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Agatha All Along Being Sold as “Gayest Marvel Project Ever”

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| Sep 17, 2024 |

Apparently not reeling enough from The Acolyte, Disney is setting its next streaming series up for a similar failure… or somebody is, anyway. Tomorrow, Agatha All Along, the long-awaited (“long-awaited” as in “let’s get this root canal over with”) spin-off of WandaVision starring Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness, debuts on Disney+. Naturally, the cast – which includes Aubrey Plaza, Patti LuPone, Debra Jo Rupp, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, and Joe Locke – appeared at the red carpet premiere, and the entertainment media was there to interview them. Variety spoke to a few of the actors at the premiere and asked about Agatha All Along being the “gayest project Marvel has ever done,” and predictably got the desired responses. Here’s Sasheer Zamata, who plays Jennifer Kale, a “sorceress and member of Agatha’s coven who is a potions expert”:

Then, the interviewer asked Aubrey Plaza the same question:

Initially, I thought the Variety guy was just being obnoxious, and Zamata and Plaza handled it however they could in the moment. Plaza’s answer, in particular, felt like it could have been jokey, and it seems in line with her type of humor. Zamata is also a lesbian, and Plaza is bisexual, so it could be that the interviewer was asking them for that reason (which is a little dickish, in my opinion, as if they can’t talk about anything else). However, he also asked Agatha herself, Kathryn Hahn:

It looks to me like Hahn knows this is not going to help the show, and she’s trying to emphasize that Agatha All Along is not just about being gay, but, of course, she can’t deny the description. Ali Ahn, who plays Alice Wu-Gulliver (what a name), a “protector witch,” wasn’t asked about how gay Agatha All Along is – not in any available clips, anyway – but was asked about diversity, because that’s all the vacuous drones in mainstream entertainment media care about, and she similarly tried to downplay it:

Like Hahn, Ahn seems to know that focusing on things like diversity will do the show no favors, so she downplays its importance, assuring audiences that Agatha All Along isn’t a lecture disguised as entertainment. It’s a shame they’re being reduced to this because I like a lot of these actresses. Kathryn Hahn is fantastic, Aubrey Plaza can be hilarious, Sasheer Zamata was great when she was on Saturday Night Live, and Debra Jo Rupp and Patti Lupone are legends. It’s got to be frustrating for them to try to sell a piece of art while the media is seemingly working overtime to ensure nobody will want to watch it.

This makes me wonder who’s behind this and what their motivation is. On the one hand, Disney apparently knows their identity politics nonsense is disastrous to their bottom line, as a report came yesterday that they ordered anything that even gave a slight hint of gayness to be expunged from Inside Out 2 – a movie where nobody was gay in the first place. If they’re sticking with this strategy, that suggests the Variety interviewer is doing this of his own accord or on behalf of Variety. Aside from the usual virtue signaling and social engineering, a show failing is probably good for business, as it results in plenty of articles that will get shared and disseminated, ones that call Marvel fans racist for not watching the gayest Marvel show ever made until the next one.

On the other hand, this isn’t the only instance of the actors selling Agatha All Along on how gay it is. A few weeks ago, Joe Locke, who plays a gay character who is only being called “Teen” because his identity is a secret, accused Marvel fans of being hateful before mocking them and saying he was living out their dream by being in a Marvel production. Aside from the fact that he sounds like an asshole, this is a hell of a way to try to sell your show. But what are the chances that Disney is allowing all of this to happen? They hold a lot of sway over the entertainment media, so if they didn’t want Variety to ask the actors about the gayness level of Agatha All Along, they could almost certainly get them to talk about something else. Maybe Disney is doing this on purpose because they’ve essentially written the show off and want to get as much press as they can. That rumor from Chris Gore about Marvel moving away from woke activist content included the caveat that they’ve still got a couple of years’ worth of unwatchable garbage to burn off before they can maybe-possibly-hopefully-could-happen make something good again. We’ll see, although I doubt many people will see Agatha All Along.

Let us know how gay you think Agatha All Along will be in the comments!

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Comments (3)

comicsgate
September 18, 2024 at 11:32 am

It’s a sure thing to be avoided by all straight males.

It’s a lock, or should say, a lockout. No straight boy will watch this.

comicsgate
September 18, 2024 at 2:21 pm

Marvel’s version of The Acolyte in every way. Are they gonna have magic called The Thread?
Gay show full of witches. Acolyte was lesbian witches in space.
They are the same thing!
The black lady in pink even looks the same as the witch in Acolyte. Sounds the same, too, as stuff we heard from Headland and others. Yas yas.
No value in this show for a Marvel fan, in any way.

    Alex Gherzo
    September 19, 2024 at 12:40 am

    It feels like they’re throwing it under the bus. They’ll get some good press by calling it gay so the media can villify anyone who doesn’t like it, and that’s about it.

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