Ever since the second season of "Yellowjackets" wrapped last spring, there's been a gaping hole in ambiguously queer television content. And, no, “True Detective: Night Country” doesn't count, receiving LGBTQ canon demerits for all the times we were made to watch extremely queer-coded Chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) sleep with some old man. But, in imagining Marvel Studios coming to the realization that Pride Month should really take place in spooky season and that holding out hope for brief, queerbaiting scenes in major studio releases is the equivalent of a mini-Snickers, in terms of satisfaction, "Agatha All Along" scratches an itch with the perfect thing . . . gay witches.

A nine-episode miniseries spinning off from the 2021 Disney hit, "WandaVision," Kathryn Hahn — a favorite of queer women near and far — resumes her role as Agatha Harkness, a snarky ancient witch whose powers were stolen by Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), stuck in a fabricated realm of The Scarlet Witches' making in Westview, New Jersey, until she fights her way out of both the spell put upon her, and her clothes, with the help of top-energy character Rio Vidal (AKA, Green Witch), played by Latinx bisexual sassy pants, Aubrey Plaza.

And if you don't think this isn't great news . . . you haven't heard their witchy fight banter yet.

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In "WandaVision," Agatha assumed the era-hopping role of nosey-neighbor Agnes — feigning befuddlement in '80s legwarmers and poofy hair, and pie-carrying '50s garb, to keep an eye on Wanda as she used the townsfolk as puppets in her forced fake reality for herself and her long-dead vibranium-based male android husband,........

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