A woman wearing no makeup and a slightly messy ponytail drives down a foggy, tree-lined suburban road to a crime scene, humming to herself. With a bulky black winter jacket layered over another dark jacket and jeans, she walks with her coworker (played by David A. Payton) through a forest.
“Jane Doe,” he says. “Found her down here by the wooder.”
You’d think the HBO series Mare of Easttown is back. Only the woman isn’t Kate Winslet and this Delco accent doesn’t belong to Marianne “Mare” Sheehan, the Easttown, Pa., detective sergeant.
Instead, this is the trailer for Marvel Television’s WandaVision spin-off, Agatha All Along. It picks up from where the WandaVision miniseries ended with Wanda / The Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olson) cursing her neighbor Agnes (Hahn) to live out her life as a nosy suburban resident trapped in Westview, N.J.
Each episode of WandaVision is a parody-homage to other TV shows, and the trailer’s Mare impersonation implies that the Agatha series will play along in that style. Even before the characters give it away with their accents, the trailer’s subdued color palette, with its grays, dark blues, and blacks, is a direct callback to Mare’s dreariness.
Hahn is seen living her Mare life until a coworker, Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), urges her to “claw her way out” and fully embrace who she really is and has been all along — Agatha Harkness, a powerful witch who was put on trial in Salem, Mass. She then proceeds to put together a coven before embarking on the Witches’ Road.
The pilot episode, which will premiere on Disney+ on Sept. 18, is directed by WandaVision creator and showrunner Jac Schaeffer. Apart from actors who were already a part of the WandaVision cast — Payton, Hahn, Debra Jo Rupp — the show will also star Plaza, Joe Locke, Sasheer Zamata, and Patti LuPone.
