Agatha All Along: Kathryn Hahn Talks ‘Charged’ Aubrey Plaza Scenes, Series’ Mare of Easttown Homage (VIDEO)

The first trailer for Disney+’s Agatha All Along pointedly evoked HBO’s Mare of Easttown , by presenting Kathryn Hahn’s title character as a small-town cop puzzling over a gloomy murder scene.

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Well, what if we told you that, just as WandaVision aped classic sitcoms, the bulk of Agatha ‘s follow-up’s first episode is a beat-by-beat riff on said Kate Winslet drama?

“I love a prestige, woman-led crime drama,” Hahn shares with TVLine in the video above, when asked about the homage. “The lead detective, strong woman with a past…. That trope — Broadchurch is another one I’m obsessed with — just felt so right, and so perfect” as a foundation for the Marvel series’ launch.

Debuting Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 9/8c with the first two episodes, Agatha All Along finds its titular sorceress feeling down and out (of power) after a young goth dubbed “Teen” ( Heartstopper ‘s Joe Locke) helps free her from the spell cast by Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff at the end of WandaVision .

Agatha’s spirits are lifted when Teen asks her to take him on the Witches’ Road, a legendary gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards a witch with whatever they’re missing.

To brave the Witches’ Road, Agatha must round up, Blues Brothers -style, a band of other spellcasters, including Patti LuPone’s Lilia Calderu, Sasheer Zamata’s Jennifer Kale, Alice Wu-Gulliver’s Ali Ahn and Debra Jo Rupp’s Sharon Davis (fka “Mrs. Hart” on WandaVision ).

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Aubrey Plaza’s Rio Vidal also figures into the mix, as a specific — and possibly sapphic…? — blast from Agatha’s past.

Plaza of course starred on Parks and Recreation as April Ludgate, while Hahn guested in later seasons as campaign manager Jennifer Barkley, “but we never [really] shared scenes together,” Hahn notes in the video Q&A, “so this was our first time digging our teeth into something.”

Akin to her very different dynamic with Locke’s Teen, “this chemistry just was there” with Plaza, Hahn enthuses. “We didn’t have to overthink it or talk about what we were going to do… It felt super-charged every time we were doing any scenes together, which was thrilling.”

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