Agatha All Along creator confirms the show’s deaths will remain ‘permanent’

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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along episodes 1-7.

The Witches’ Road has lived up to its vulnerable reputation. Across nan first 7 episodes of Marvel Studios‘ Agatha All Along, aggregate characters person met shocking, tragic ends arsenic a consequence of nan Road’s trials. Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp) was nan first to go, and she’s truthful acold been followed by Alice Wu-Gulliver (Ali Ahn) and Lilia Calderu (Patti LuPone). The second characteristic dies successful heroic manner astatine nan extremity of Agatha All Along‘s seventh episode, “Death’s Hand successful Mine,” erstwhile she sacrifices herself successful bid to return retired nan villainous members of nan Salem Seven and bargain her chap witches more time.

“Death’s Hand successful Mine” besides reveals nan existent personality of Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza). In an eerie encounter, Rio reveals to Lilia that she is Death herself, an enactment that later convinces LuPone’s witch to judge her fate. Despite nan seeming finality of her self-sacrificial act, though, Lilia’s decease has been met — for illustration Alice and Mrs. Hart’s — pinch flimsy disbelief from fans. Marvel Studios, aft all, has a proven way grounds of sidesplitting characters only to bring them backmost to life. It doesn’t, however, sound for illustration viewers should expect that to hap pinch immoderate of nan Witches’ Road’s latest victims.

“This is simply a show astir death,” Agatha All Along creator Jac Schaeffer told Variety erstwhile asked astir nan fates of characters for illustration Lilia, Alice, and Mrs. Hart. “Personally, I consciousness that erstwhile a personification dies, you tin still talk to them and consciousness them, and they tin still beryllium successful your lives. But decease is immutable. It is permanent. With this show, we wanted to salary respect to that. So this a much earnest and sedate speech astir decease than possibly you would find successful different superhero project.”

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When she was subsequently asked whether aliases not nan Salem Seven really are arsenic dormant arsenic they look astatine nan extremity of Agatha All Along section 7, Schaeffer further confirmed, “Yeah, nan Salem Seven are dead. They’re disconnected nan committee successful our show, is what I will say. Lilia has saved everybody!” Schaeffer’s comments, notably, don’t afloat destruct nan anticipation of characters for illustration Lilia, Alice, aliases Mrs. Hart ever appearing again onscreen. It seems for illustration fans shouldn’t expect them to ever virtually travel backmost to life, though.

To its credit, Agatha All Along has proven itself unafraid of sidesplitting its characters astatine nan driblet of a hat. The now-confirmed beingness of Death herself, therefore, only adds an other furniture of threat and unpredictability to nan series’ forthcoming two-part finale. Schaeffer has refrained from teasing excessively heavy what viewers should expect from Agatha‘s last episodes, but she did show Variety “there is much Agatha, location is much Rio” to come, arsenic good arsenic “some truth to beryllium shared astir Agatha.”

Fans only person a fewer much days to hold earlier they find retired what that “truth” is, on pinch whether aliases not Plaza’s Death is capable to declare immoderate much lives earlier Agatha All Along reaches its eventual conclusion.

Agatha All Along‘s two-episode finale premieres Wednesday, October 30 connected Disney+.