Agatha All Along review – the perfect show for Halloween season

This royally entertaining Marvel series slips seamlessly from comedy to tragedy, and Kathryn Hahn is so good you can barely take your eyes off her. An absolute treat

The spin-off was surely ordained the minute Kathryn Hahn hit her first mark in front of the WandaVision cameras. She played the superhero couple’s nosy neighbour “Agnes”, who was in fact a Salem witch named Agatha Harkness bent on acquiring Wanda’s powers for herself. Hahn’s darkly comic, ineffably compelling performance almost stole the show. It was, for the longtime and well-respected character actor, a star-making part at last.

Agatha All Along, the new nine-part series – from the creator of WandaVision, Jac Schaeffer – picks up just after the final events of the original, which saw Agatha drained of her powers and trapped in the perfect, and therefore hellish, suburb of Westview.