There are any number of reasons to be watching Agatha All Along. Maybe you’re here for Kathryn Hahn Hahn-ing around, or to see Aubrey Plaza goth it up, or because you’d follow Patti Lupone to hell and back. Maybe it’s just the season for witchy fall vibes!

And if you’re like me, you’re also wondering if this’ll be the installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that actually explains what the hell magic is in this setting.

Agatha All Along seems perfectly poised to answer questions like: What is a witch? Where does their power come from? Do they get it naturally? Do they have to learn how? What does it allow them to do? Given that a character called “The Scarlet Witch” has been in five MCU movies and had her own television show — with two Doctor Strange movies and Spider-Man: No Way Home on the side — you’d think that at least some of these questions would have been answered already.

But the Marvel Cinematic Universe has undergone this odd flip, where it began by drawing a line around the supernatural and firmly labeling it as advanced alien science. Thor understood particle physics........

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