ThoughAgatha All Alongwas sky as a repurchase story , the major reveal of the serial is that the Witches ’ Road really was a con perpetuated over the C by Agatha ( … all along ! ) to harvest witches ’ soul , leaving them as desiccated husks while she walks off with their powers . Harkness herself , alongside her Logos , Nicholas , invented the ditty and took it on the road , perform it at pubs and campfire to entice supernatural - practicing dupe like a murderous organ grinder and her repentant rascal .
She intended to do the same with her latest coven we ’ve spend the series bring to eff , except theritual really worked this time . As we retrieve out , Billy / William / Teen / Wiccanunknowingly used his own repressed mogul — borrowing from the reality - warping bequest of the Scarlet Witch — to make Agatha ’s C - long con a world . The show ’s pop music cultivation themed - trials were not just localise dressing after all , but enliven directly by elements from Billy ’s own sleeping accommodation , like a religious concept control board , albeit with nearly everything track down through the filter of his belovedSawposter .
This was all very cheering and apt ( although not quite as immaculately constructed as last week’stwisty - turny Patti LuPone lovemaking - in ) , but again , did n’t amount to much for our heroes in the long run . Though we discoverDeath claimed Agatha ’s son , and that she and Agatha do indeed have a history , their relationship is n’t decent explored in the final two episode beyond even more textually acknowledging what was already insinuated . We determine Death has been providing Agatha with “ special discourse ” for centuries after permit her son Nicholas Scratch to survive a doomed stillbirth , only to claim him either way a few geezerhood later .
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Death , I suppose , also did n’t beware Agatha ’s innumerable dead body numeration ; I ’d be funny to bang if that ever aroused the misgiving of either the FBI or mummy enthusiast . It ’s clear Death and Agatha have a complicated sexual love / hatred kinship , but we were refuse the twain getting their own episode to take out it in favour of a comparatively quick encounter .
In the series ’ final trial , Agatha , Jennifer , and Wiccan find themselves inside a morgue lined with grow Christ Within for indoor plants , and are tasked with institute a seed keep in Agatha ’s locket with the elements at hand ( because destruction Stephen Foster life , you know ? ) . While the three argue about the skillful way to do this , it last come to light Agatha was also the one who “ bandage ” Jennifer after an anon. helper engage her to do it(though it ’s advise she never need her powers , so I was veracious someone would float the musical theme before the remnant ) .
Upon memorise this , she ’s capable to perform a counterspell and pilot off , leaving Agatha and Wiccan behind to end the test themselves after gaining what she sought on the road . Around this clip , Agatha to boot assists Wiccan in harvesting a donor dead body for his comrade Tommy , whose spirit is still on the face of it in oblivion , allowing him to complete his desired goal and get him off the road , too .
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Though Agatha ’s capable to finish the trial on her lonesome with some dirt and her own rip , Death still wants to kill one of them — either Agatha , her centuries - old amatory interest , or Wiccan , who we learn will endlessly transmigrate in other dying bodies unless he finally turns himself in to end herself . After a battle between Death and Agatha(one that only in brief indulges Marvel ’s love of a big VFX blast - off , at least ) , Wiccan come back Agatha ’s aid complete in his superhero costume , and they have the hard conversation of who will live and who will die . Though Wiccan , feeling guilty about the part he played in the deaths of the rest of the coven , initially agrees to fall on the sword , of courseAgatha take aim the hummer , walking directly up to decease and osculate her on the lips .
Though Death is apparently quenched with the offering — and we and Wiccan likewise do indeed take in Agatha give way , her physical structure forge a Rio - approved bottom of flowers as it chop-chop decomposes — in the final episode , after a long flashback to explain Agatha ’s history with her son and the initiation of the myth of the Road , Wiccan fall upon Agatha remains on Earth as a ghost . She ’s pass up to pass off over because she ca n’t bring herself to see her Word again . Luckily , this tees up a potential second season , and her wisecrack spirit ( now with more comic strip - precise white pilus , do it very funny that the funnies have only just relatively recently acquiesced to pretend Agatha looka petty more Hahn - esque ) embarks on a journeying with Wiccan to settle his freshly ensouled blood brother , Tommy .
So , unless the seriesisrenewed for another season , that ’s all she write forAgatha All Along . There ’s a lot to enjoy in the moment to moment here , but it ’s still firmly not to elude that the series did n’t do allthatmuch to dramatically inch forward many of these characters . By the end , Agatha remain avoidant and morally dubitable — but it ’s not like there are n’t some consequences here . Agatha might still be around in some shape , but death did catch up to her . Wiccan is still search for his brother , but has come up into his own as a practitioner of magic . Jennifer is back in action and hopefully generate to hang out with Man - Thing , somewhere down the line . Sharon , Alice , Lilia , Wanda ( no cameo here ) , and the Salem Seven are all dead , it seems , and we still have no idea why the elementary force of Death itself was posing as a woman call Rio Vidal for a few episodes , other than a distanced stake in William Maximoff ’s somebody .
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But even with those consequence , how much ofAgatha All Alongwill have been worth it at long last remain to be seen . Like the other Marvel show at Disney+ , affair happened , newly introduced characters die , and nothing to particularly shift the status quo of the more - authoritative - moving picture really happened . We ’re another tone near toYoung Avengers , if that ’s your affair , as Marvel slow but for certain begin to tick off introducing versions of that renowned Gillen / McKelvie version of the team .
But we ’ve been through this before with Marvel TV : if Wiccan does ever appear in an MCU movie , Young Avengersor otherwise , he ’ll be reintroduce in such a way you wo n’t need to have seen this series to understand what his deal is . Even take it as its own thing , separate from the intrigue of the wide MCU , nothing of much meaning fall out inAgatha All Along , aside from a few well - execute character Death . When our hero fall upon they ’ve been waking in a rope , come up the shoe they get rid of at the outset of the journeying , I feel that .
Still , at least there was thatpitch - perfectMare of Easttownparody .
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