The final two episodes of “Agatha All Along” were released the day before Halloween. Considering that the episodes normally premiered one at a time every Wednesday, this was a nice spooky treat for Halloween lovers. You’ve been warned, spoilers ahead.
“Agatha All Along” follows the story of the main antagonist, Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), during the events of “Wandavision.” It is revealed that Agatha has literally been there all along, creating the illusion that she is part of the town, and is unknowing to what has occurred. However, this is in an attempt to gain Wanda’s magic, as Agatha knows the “Darkhold,” a powerful book of chaos magic, predicts the return of the Scarlet Witch, with limitless power. Agatha is placed under a memory wipe spell after the battle with Wanda.
Wanda leaves Westview as she realizes that she has used chaos magic and put every one of the town’s residents in danger while creating this false reality. She has recently lost her love, Vision, and her grief allows her to transition into an era where she fulfills her prophecy as the Scarlet Witch and falls darker as she realizes the consequence of her actions. She navigates different realities in “Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness.” Her death is foreshadowed through the rubble of this final battle, leaving viewers wondering what is happening in Westview, and how her actions have affected the newly conscious residents.
Agatha still has no idea what is going on but regains her memories with the help of a local Eastview teen and a supposed FBI agent. Agatha remembers that she must do whatever she can to regain her power, as this was her main reason for coming to Westview. Agatha works with Willam Kaplan (Joe Locke), known as “Teen,” to gain a coven of witches and to find the Witch’s Road. However, viewers start to notice that the plan may not be going smoothly, but once again, Agatha seems to know more than she’s letting on about William Kaplan’s sigil. Which prevents him from revealing his true identity and her surprise at The Road actually opening.
Agatha and her son, Nicolas Scratch (Gavin Leatherwood), created the “Ballad” itself that made other witches come to the allure that was The Road, ending in Agatha using her powers as an Illusionment Witch to steal their powers after blaming her coven for being weak, resulting in the witches using their powers on her. Nicolas Scratch, who many believed to be Teen at the beginning of the show, is revealed to have been taken by the Ultimate Green Witch, Mother Death, also known as “Rio,” after he was given more time on Earth due to Rio’s love for Agatha. Agatha refuses to meet Death, initially in an attempt to keep her power, but it is because she doesn’t want to meet Nicky in the afterlife. The Road, therefore, was a way for Agatha to provide bodies to keep Death distracted and happy. She seldom acknowledges that she did use him to trick a coven of witches, even still after his death, utilizing the song they performed as they went town to town. This was a way to cope with her loss and use his story to fuel the power she always wanted to obtain, as it is mostly portrayed that she sold her son to the Devil, in order to get the Darkhold, by the other witches in the Coven she created.
Agatha, upon finding out that Teen is the son of Wanda Maximoff, mostly befriends Teen as she seeks to find out how him and his power is relevant to her own journey and survival. However, she also tries to distract Rio with how powerful he is so he doesn’t have the same fate as Nicolas Scratch, or even herself. Even if it is calculated to find more about the bounds of Billy’s power, and how it helps Agatha herself, she does help Billy find Tommy being born as he has been lost since the curse was lifted from Westview. Scratch, therefore, is Agatha’s only connection to compassion: as the mention of his name finally allows her to walk to her end, with a literal kiss of death.
It’s interesting to see the way Billy interacts with Agatha in her new ghost form in the end of the final episode. He feels that she tricked him into being a murderer in order to just trade him to death and get his powers at the end of the show, but he sees her vulnerability and power making him realize that he cannot walk his next road alone. This road is meant to find his long lost brother, Tommy Maximoff. He struggles with identifying what is good and right, what it means to be a witch himself, and whether or not he wants to be like his mom.
In this final scene, we see him realize that in order to be the witch he really wants to be, he has to own up to his mistakes and be aware of both the good and bad that comes with being powerful, such as his mom and Agatha. They both realize that seeking power is inevitable and it’s no fault of their own but the choices they make in the future decide it all.
