Agatha Will Do Everything About Witches Into Pop Culture What WandaVision Did With Sitcoms

How much WandaVision will honor a different sitcom format with each new episode, Entertainment Weekly revealed Agatha Everything Goes will play on various depictions of witches in pop culture. However, according to showrunner Jac Schaeffer, “We’re a little squirrelly about it.”

The EW article explains that after Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) breaks free from the spell Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) was holding her at the end of WandaVisionmade a deal with “Patti LuPone’s witch, Lilia Calderu; Sasheer Zamata expert, Jennifer Kale; Alice Ahn’s patron witch, Alice Wu-Gullive; Aubrey Plaza’s heroic witch, Rio Vida; and Westview resident Debra Jo Rupp, Mrs. Hart” to travel the Witches’ Road, a “mysterious place that offers its visitors a series of temptations” similar to the Yellow Brick Road from The Wizard of Oz. If Agatha’s covenant fails these tests, they die—but if they do, their “deepest desire” will be granted to them. Talk about high value, high rewards, right?

As Witches’ Road also has comics, each “test” will see our Marvel heroes wearing new costumes that reflect the various witches of stage and screen. According to Schaeffer, one episode will see the coven dressed as a “Fleetwood Mac-style band.” How do you justify this, you ask? Well, “we’re in the ‘Season of the Witch’ and that sort of thing. It doesn’t have that very clear thread, but it was our plan to be able to pull that excitement from the show.”

Later in the episode, Schaeffer reveals another episode to be honored Practical Magiccommenting, “that’s my kind of woman who plays her grandmother on the beach and gossips and doubles and fights for spots at a private school.” Those witches. That’s the deal.”

If visual tributes to Stevie Nicks and Nicole Kidman seem to push the definition of “witch” to you, the store promises a different experience will see “80s-style summer campers messing around with a ouija board in their cabin.” That is very similar…

Schaeffer’s “system” for determining which witches are “casts a wider net” than he originally expected. “The structure of the world is growing. The first idea was that they will face these trials as witches,” explained the producer. “In the early days, the tests were like, there is a fire test, there is a water test. However, how do we find the illusion there? How do we get pop culture there? Real talk: how do we get the cabin and production design there? So that was the trick and the guiding light. “

I guess we’ll see what he means when Agatha Everything Goes premieres September 18 on Disney+.

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