Showrunner Jac Schaeffer and actress Debra Jo Rupp talk about that big episode 3 moment.
Agatha All Alongisn’t like your run-of-the-mill Disney show, or even Marvel show, for that matter.
But according to showrunner Jac Schaeffer, this element became fundamental to the series.
The coven of ‘Agatha All Along’ faces the first trial of the Witches' Road in episode 3.Chuck Zlotnick/MARVEL
“Debra Joe Rupp is a comedy genius.
She can’tnotbe funny, but we do horror-comedy on the show.
This show has teeth, and in the later episodes it goes to really dramatic places.
Debra Jo Rupp’s Mrs. Hart on ‘Agatha All Along’.MARVEL
The witches found themselves inside an oceanside mansion with “rom-com second-chance-at-love vibes,” as Teen put it.
They each drank from a bottle of wine, which signaled the start of the trial.
It was ultimately not enough to save her from death.
Now… does Mrs. Hart actuallystaydead?
Will they somehow be able to revive her?
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“It’s high stakes,” Rupp herself tells EW in a separate conversation.
Schaeffer loved the moment, as it became a way to depict the entire spectrum thatAgatha All Alongencompasses.
There is real meaning to it.
It felt disingenuous to not really go there.”
New episodes ofAgatha All Alongpremiere on Disney+ Wednesday nights.
