Agatha All Along Will Force Lone Wolf Witches to Work Together

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Empire Magazine has released a caller look astatine the upcoming WandaVision spinoff, Agatha All Along (formerly titled The Darkhold Diaries, primitively titled Coven of Chaos) focusing, naturally, connected Agatha Harkness, the series’ breakout villain played by Kathryn Hahn.

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Every witch needs a coven, however, and arsenic the nonfiction reveals, the bid is acceptable to present “a disparate, mixed container of witches” comprised of Patti LuPone’s Lilia, Sasheer Zamata’s Jennifer, Debra Jo Rupp’s Sharon, and Ali Ahn’s Alice. According to bid creator Jac Schaeffer, “What they person successful communal is that they’re covenless witches. Witches are defined by deception, treachery, villainy and selfishness. What bash you bash erstwhile you person a radical of witches who [demonstrate] those notions and you request them to enactment together?” As evidenced by the supra image, each subordinate of Agatha’s unit sports a uniquely witchy wardrobe—we person the goth, the clairvoyant, the hippie and the coastal grandma who’s apt excited for the Practical Magic sequel.

Though the characters whitethorn look stock, Schaeffer teases the series’ plans to subvert our expectations: “[Where] WandaVision played with the signifier of classical TV sitcoms, [here] we bash a batch of playing with what the assumptions astir witches are. Like, what are the shorthand visuals for witches? We surely didn’t privation a one-dimensional nasty witch. We volition person moments wherever we spot Agatha’s existent heart.”

Has Agatha yet recovered her tribe? It surely sounds similar a redemption arc is waiting successful the wings erstwhile her bid premieres this September 18 connected Disney+.


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