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From ‘Agatha All Along’ to ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’: TV Witches Cast a Spell on Viewers
TV witches and their creative covens take on the world of witchcraft in different ways, from ‘Agatha All Along’ to ‘The Wheel of Time’
‘ Agatha All Along ‘ cast (L-R) Sasheer Zamata, Joe Locke, Kathryn Hahn, Patti LuPone, Debra Jo Rupp and Alice Wu-Gulliver Chuck Zlotnick Similarly, series creator and showrunner Jac Schaeffer says she loves “the allegory” that comes with tales of the supernatural, but they can also “be so reductive.” This sets the tone for a show where characters can have powers and fly on brooms, but only in an ironic way. These wizards use wands and can cast spells, but also, “pagan things [like the] history of Halloween and drawing from some of these older traditions do bleed a little bit into this mythology,” adds co-showrunner Scott Thomas.
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