Mischief managed
THE CREATOR OF AGATHA ALL ALONG ON UNLEASHING A CACKLE OF WITCHES ON THE MCU
WORDS BETH WEBB
Lilia (Patti LuPone), Jennifer (Sasheer Zamata), Agatha (Kathryn Hahn), Sharon (Debra Jo Rupp) and Alice (Ali Ahn);
WHERE WANDAVISION WENT big on meta, Agatha All Along is going big on mischief. To gauge the tone of the new Marvel miniseries, which spotlights Kathryn Hahn’s dastardly witch (and Wanda’s nemesis) Agatha Harkness, you need only look at its title, which in true chaos-magic-style underwent four major changes (including ‘Agatha: Coven Of Chaos’ and ‘Agatha: Darkhold Diaries’) before taking its true form. “We went really far with the ways in which she would mess with people,” laughs the show’s creator Jac Schaeffer, who confirms that reams of fake titles were concocted in the writers’ room.