{"id":31936,"date":"2024-09-07T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blinkbargain.com\/blog\/agatha-all-along-will-do-to-witch-adjacent-pop-culture-what-wandavision-did-with-sitcoms\/"},"modified":"2024-09-07T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T21:17:03","slug":"agatha-all-along-will-do-to-witch-adjacent-pop-culture-what-wandavision-did-with-sitcoms","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/blinkbargain.com\/blog\/agatha-all-along-will-do-to-witch-adjacent-pop-culture-what-wandavision-did-with-sitcoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Agatha All Along Will Do to Witch-Adjacent Pop Culture What WandaVision Did With Sitcoms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Much like how WandaVision<\/em><\/a> would homage a different sitcom format with each new episode, Entertainment Weekly<\/a> reveals Agatha All Along<\/em><\/a> will play with the varying portrayals of witches in pop culture<\/a>. However, according to showrunner Jac Schaeffer<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re a little squirrelly with it.\u201d<\/p>\n The EW article explains that after Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) breaks free from the spell Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) used to bind her at the end of WandaVision<\/em>, she forms a coven with Patti LuPone\u2019s \u201cdivination witch, Lilia Calderu; Sasheer Zamata\u2019s potions expert, Jennifer Kale; Alice Ahn\u2019s protector witch, Alice Wu-Gullive; Aubrey Plaza\u2019s warrior witch, Rio Vida; and Debra Jo Rupp\u2019s Westview resident, Mrs. Hart\u201d to walk the Witches\u2019 Road, \u201ca mystical realm that presents its visitors with a series of trials\u201d that resembles the Yellow Brick Road from The Wizard of Oz<\/em>. If Agatha\u2019s coven fails these trials, they die\u2014but if they succeed, their \u201cdeepest desire\u201d will be granted to them. Talk about high stakes, high rewards, right?<\/p>\n As the Witches\u2019 Road also possess a sense of humor, each \u201ctrial\u201d will see our offbeat Marvel heroes outfitted in new costumes reflecting different witches of stage and screen. According to Schaeffer, one episode will see the coven dressed as \u201ca Fleetwood Mac-style band.\u201d How does she justify this, you ask? Well, \u201cwe\u2019re in \u2018Season of the Witch\u2019 and that kind of thing. It doesn\u2019t have that same abundantly clear thread, but it was our system to be able to pull that fun into the show.\u201d<\/p>\n Later in the piece, Schaeffer reveals another episode will homage Practical Magic<\/em>, noting, \u201cthat\u2019s my personal brand of ladies in their coastal grandma chic that are backstabbing and duplicitous and fighting for spots at the private school. Those are witches. That\u2019s a coven.\u201d<\/p>\n If visual homages to Stevie Nicks and Nicole Kidman seem to strain the definition of \u201cwitch\u201d to you, the outlet promises a separate trial will see \u201cthe cast dressed as \u201980s summer campers messing with a ouija board in their bunk house.\u201d That\u2019s more like it\u2026<\/p>\n Schaeffer\u2019s self-described \u201csystem\u201d for determining which witches to reference \u201ccasts a wider net\u201d than she originally expected. \u201cThe world building expands. The first idea was that they would have these trials as witches,\u201d the showrunner explained. \u201cIn early days, the tests were sort of like, there\u2019s a fire trial, there\u2019s a water trial. But then, how do we get the illusions in there? How do we get the pop culture in there? Real talk: how do we get the wardrobe and the production design in there? So that was the trick and the guiding light.\u201d<\/p>\n I guess we\u2019ll see what she means when Agatha All Along<\/em> premieres September 18 on Disney+.<\/p>\n Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n Trending Products<\/strong>\n
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