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 remaining prank on audiences with a five-hour ASMR video that includes the present’s leading ladies.

Whereas it will 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 will 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 style, went all in along with her ASMR session, which concerned making varied sounds with knives. This consists of scrapping logs, stabbing mentioned logs, slicing flowers, and licking mentioned knife. To not be outdone by herself, Plaza concluded her ASMR session by lighting two candles solely to blow them out. In accordance with Plaza, her remaining act symbolized extinguishing “all of the darkish souls which have haunted us for hundreds of years.” Thanks on your service.

Agatha All Alongside‘s ASMR YouTube video is the most recent in a string of media stunts from the present. Simply this yr 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 constructive, it’s secure to say the oldsters concerned earned their journey laughing all the best way 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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