Marvel's Agatha All Along creator reveals why episode 3's surprise death had to happen: "If you remove death it becomes inauthentic"
Exclusive: Wr💎iter/director Jac Schaeffer spills on that pivotal moment, reve🃏aling that it was a late addition to the Marvel show

Warning – the following features spoilers for episode 3 of Agatha All Along.
Well – the third episode of new MCU show Agatha All Along was full of surprises. However, arguably the most shocking moment of them all is the death of Debra Jo Rupp's character Sharon Davis, a.k.a. Mrs. Hart – one of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Agatha Harkness' Westview neighbors who was brought along on their 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Witches' Road travels.
The distracted makeshift coven fail to give Sharon the antidote in time during the first trial on their journey, resulting in her⭕ death. And even though this is Marvel, where more than often it seems that characters never really die, Mrs. Davis has indeed bitten the dust. There's no coming back this time!
Speaking to GamesRadar+ and the , the show's creator Jac Schaeffer reflected on this crucial scene, that ends the episode titled 'Through Many Miles of Tricks and Trials' on a jaw-dropping note.ꦏ
As she explains, Sharon's death was vital to help ensure that the show had stakes. However, Schaeffer also reveals that it was actually a last minute decision which came after♛ the scripts were written – and one that also proved to be divisive.
She tells us: "It was a big question –🧸 do characters die in the show? We went around and around, it was a decision that we made quite late. The scripts were all written, we were even cast, we weren't shooting yet but I usually like to have the answers🎉 to those questions earlier. But it was dicey. What does it do to the audience? Do we do this?
"The answer was yes because we wanted the show to have teeth. This is a show about a character who is classified as a villain. Also, there is something about witchcraft that if you remove death, ൲those bigger stakes like that, it becomes soft, toothless, and inauthentic. So yeah, we kill someone."
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Following Sharon's death Agatha has the perfect response askin🍌g the rest of the coven "who is Sharon?" – after all, she kept using the incorrect name of Mrs. Hart. For Schaeffer, this one-liner is actually one of her favorite moments from the whole of Agatha All Along. As she concludes: "That's one of my favorite moments in the whole show!"
New episodes of Agatha All Along drop weekly on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Disney Plus – to stay up to date, check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Agatha All Along release schedule and you can read our thoughts on the series with our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Agatha All Along review.
And for more from the world of the MCU, check out our guides to all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Marvel movies and shows, as well as how to watch the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel movies in order.
Emily Murray is a former Entertainment Editor of GamesRadar+, once responsible for overseeing all the online content for Total Film and SFX magazine. Emily has previously worked for the BBC, Zavvi, UNILAD, Y🎀ahoo, Digital Spy and more. When Emily isn't writing about film and TV, she can be found cuddling her cat on the sofa, likely bingeing New Girl for the millionth time (Nick Miller is the love of my life). You can also find her waxing lyrical about C𝄹hristopher Nolan on a podcast dedicated to his filmography.