Agatha All Along Boss Explains the Finale’s Lack of a Post-Credits Scene (and Solves a WandaVision Mystery)
When the credits began to roll on Agatha All Along‘s two-episode finale on Wednesday night, many a Disney+ viewer likely began to fast-forward through them, anticipating they’d hit a bonus scene or two before the episode truly ended.
But Agatha ultimately strayed from Marvel Studios’ usual pattern, and no such scenes came. According to executive producer Jac Schaeffer, that particular creative choice was out of her hands.
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“That’s a Marvel decision. I know nothing more than that,” Schaeffer told our sister publication Variety. Although she did come up with several ideas for potential post-credits sequences (“because you always do on every Marvel everything”), Schaeffer said she “was told that we weren’t going to do a tag on this show. That doesn’t affect my work, or my vision for the show.”
Schaeffer’s previous MCU series, WandaVision — from which Agatha All Along was spun off — did feature a tag, in which Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff was revealed to be living in a remote cabin somewhere. While Wanda made tea for herself, an astral projection of her Scarlet Witch alter ego was seen in another room of the cabin, studying the Darkhold spellbook… until the distant sound of her son calling for help lured her away.
Ahead of WandaVision‘s 2021 finale, it was frequently theorized that Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange might pop up, seeing as his “Sorcerer Supreme” nickname had been uttered on the show before in relation to Wanda’s growing power. The finale’s post-credits scene eventually came and went without an appearance from Doctor Strange — but Schaeffer now confirms that Cumberbatch’s character was meant to show up.
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“It’s Wanda sitting on the porch of that cabin, and she’s rocking peacefully,” Schaeffer revealed. “And you know how Strange can do those circles around someone, and make them go somewhere? The circle starts around her, like she’s going to be teleported somewhere, and she stops it, so Strange has to show up in person. I just loved that so much, that Wanda would be like, ‘No, I’m not going to go where you want to teleport me. You’re going to have to come to my door.’ It was a good one, but another tag took its place.”
Agatha All Along, meanwhile, ended — spoiler alert! — with Agatha sacrificing herself to save Billy Maximoff, though she later appeared to Billy as a ghost and helped him unpack his journey on the Witches’ Road. (Read our full finale recap here.) TVLine readers gave the finale an average grade of “B+,” while the season overall earned an “A.”
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