By Dessi Gomez. 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. Watch on Deadline. Can you talk to me about how you made all those connections?
Once we really got clear on what the structure of seven was going to be, then we could drop them into the other episodes. The streamlining and the honing of that was something that went deep into prep, but we had to have it locked by the time we were shooting, because we had to block shoot those little bop moments. How tricky was that to structure in the episode itself? My brain melted, the writers, Cam Squires and Gia King, their brains melted it.
Our Associate Producer Ishi Metkar was my second brain when I was directing, because it really took a whole extra human to hold what are the transitions and what bop feeds into the next one. I held it emotionally in my heart and in my brain, and I knew it really well. What I do know is she advocated for β there were times where I tried to cut stuff and she never wanted me to cut anything because she loves the words.
She wanted to have a lot of conversations. That one was my idea. Could you talk more about that history? In my mind, she is a teacher. I think it was Cam.
It sounds like Cam to me. I have a mom. Am I William? Can he ever fully be both or one? Are we gonna see that unfold? So that felt very right. Of course, for Agatha classic, OG wicked witch from the Wizard of Oz books, which is one of our big touchstones for the show. All The Clues So Far. SCHAEFFER: Lilia is the hero of the episode, but putting her in the Good Witch look was about pinging her perennial resentment of the stereotyping of witches, but really it ends up suiting her, because she is good after all, and we all know it, and we all feel it in our hearts.
