‘Agatha All Along’ Showrunner Unpacks Lilia’s Trial, Rio’s Reveal And More Ahead Of Final Two Episodes
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for Episode 7 of Agatha All Along, titled, “Death’s Hand In Mine.” The seventh episode of Agatha All Along tested Patti LuPone’s Lilia Calderu in a trial by Tarot card, throwing viewers for a loop in Lilia’s own life and timeline because she experiences events of her existence out of order.
Showrunner and creator Jac Schaeffer confessed that brains were melted in the construction of the time slippages, which took a true team effort as shots pieced together in this episode had been threaded through the previous six.
She also praised LuPone for her openness to take on the task of Lilia’s heroic last moments. “She advocated for — there were times where I tried to cut stuff and she never wanted to cut anything because she loves the words,” Schaeffer told Deadline. “She wanted to have a lot of conversations.
She wanted to know Lilia’s arc, because she emotionally unravels over the course of the episode, and then builds herself back up.” Schaeffer also discussed the smallest of details, Easter eggs, that big reveal about Aubrey Plaza’s Rio Vidal and much more in the below interview. DEADLINE: Episode Seven, seems like something that you would have planned before, beating out other episodes.
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