Agatha All Alongside Will Do to Witch-Adjoining Pop Tradition What WandaVision Did With Sitcoms

Very like how WandaVision would homage a unique sitcom format with every new episode, Entertainment Weekly reveals Agatha All Along will play with the various portrayals of witches in pop culture. Nonetheless, in keeping with showrunner Jac Schaeffer, “We’re slightly squirrelly with it.”

The EW article explains that after Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) breaks free from the spell Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) used to bind her on the finish of WandaVision, she types a coven with Patti LuPone’s “divination witch, Lilia Calderu; Sasheer Zamata’s potions professional, Jennifer Kale; Alice Ahn’s protector witch, Alice Wu-Gullive; Aubrey Plaza’s warrior witch, Rio Vida; and Debra Jo Rupp’s Westview resident, Mrs. Hart” to stroll the Witches’ Highway, “a mystical realm that presents its guests with a sequence of trials” that resembles the Yellow Brick Highway from The Wizard of Oz. If Agatha’s coven fails these trials, they die—but when they succeed, their “deepest want” might be granted to them. Discuss excessive stakes, excessive rewards, proper?

Because the Witches’ Highway additionally possess a humorousness, every “trial” will see our offbeat Marvel heroes outfitted in new costumes reflecting completely different witches of stage and display screen. Based on Schaeffer, one episode will see the coven dressed as “a Fleetwood Mac-style band.” How does she justify this, you ask? Properly, “we’re in ‘Season of the Witch’ and that form of factor. It doesn’t have that very same abundantly clear thread, but it surely was our system to have the ability to pull that enjoyable into the present.”

Later within the piece, Schaeffer reveals one other episode will homage Sensible Magic, noting, “that’s my private model of girls of their coastal grandma stylish which can be backstabbing and duplicitous and preventing for spots on the personal faculty. These are witches. That’s a coven.”

If visible homages to Stevie Nicks and Nicole Kidman appear to pressure the definition of “witch” to you, the outlet guarantees a separate trial will see “the solid dressed as ’80s summer time campers messing with a ouija board of their bunk home.” That’s extra prefer it…

Schaeffer’s self-described “system” for figuring out which witches to reference “casts a wider web” than she initially anticipated. “The world constructing expands. The primary thought was that they’d have these trials as witches,” the showrunner defined. “In early days, the assessments had been form of like, there’s a fireplace trial, there’s a water trial. However then, how will we get the illusions in there? How will we get the popular culture in there? Actual speak: how will we get the wardrobe and the manufacturing design in there? In order that was the trick and the guiding mild.”

I assume we’ll see what she means when Agatha All Alongside premieres September 18 on Disney+.

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