Marvel’s Final Gasp Bid to Get You to Watch Agatha All Alongside Is 5 Hours of Patti LuPone ASMR

We’re hours away from WandaVision spin-off Agatha All Along premiering on Disney+, and the advertising geniuses at Marvel have bookended a last prank on audiences with a five-hour ASMR video that includes the present’s leading ladies.

Whereas it might be nothing in need of an act of cruelty for Disney to lock up Kathryn Hahn, Aubrey Plaza, Patti LuPone, and Sasheer Zamata in a room to do ASMR content material, the five-hour video is definitely a loop of a roughly three to four-minute video of the actors vamping as greatest they’ll with their impression of what ASMR is.

Key amongst their performances are Hahn rapping her fingernails in opposition to a department, Zamata taking part in with the chain of a potion bottle, and LuPone shuffling playing cards. Plaza, in typical vogue, went all in along with her ASMR session, which concerned making numerous sounds with knives. This consists of scrapping logs, stabbing stated logs, slicing flowers, and licking stated knife. To not be outdone by herself, Plaza concluded her ASMR session by lighting two candles solely to blow them out. In response to Plaza, her last act symbolized extinguishing “all of the darkish souls which have haunted us for hundreds of years.” Thanks to your service.

Agatha All Alongside‘s ASMR YouTube video is the newest in a string of media stunts from the present. Simply this 12 months alone, we’ve seen Plaza and LuPone appear on Hot Ones, contemplated the fan theory-fueled thriller over the identity of John Locke’s teen character, and heard theme track remixes. We additionally noticed the showrunners rib Marvel followers with the long-running gag of changing the spin-off’s name. Seeing as how early opinions for Agatha All Alongside have up to now been fairly optimistic, it’s secure to say the oldsters concerned earned their journey laughing all the way in which to the financial institution whereas advertising this present in each approach doable.

Agatha All Alongside‘s two-episode premiere launches tonight on Disney+.

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