Quick Review
Agatha all Along is one of my favorite Marvel shows of all time. Its direction and cinematography is amazing, the writing is great, the actors and their chemistry is really good and it’s very enjoyable to watch. For the first time in a couple years, I’ve been actually really excited to watch a Marvel project instead of feeling eh about it or even required to watch it. Briefly, my only major complaint is that the Salem Seven (the main villains until the last two episodes) felt out of place and although cool, were just really used to move the story forward and weren’t really antagonizing.
Episode Three
This episode really kick-started my liking of this show. This episode was quick-paced and actually kind of suspenseful. Out of every trial, this one definitely captured the rush and suspense needed to portray a trial the best. The characters felt more in a rush and more scared of what’s going on unlike most of the other ones. Also, Mrs Hart should’ve lived! I liked this episode a lot and although there’s not much to unpack, it definitely was pretty good.
Episode Four
This episode was great and beautiful. To those who may not know, Alice went on the road to break a curse on her generation. In this episode, it is revealed that her mother, a rockstar, not only made the song used to get on the road, but made a protection spell song to protect her daughter. Since she and the song was famous, people would be singing the song all the time and unknowingly protecting her. It was confusing but I think I got it. Anyway, Alice and the witches sing this ballad and kill the curse. It was a great moment and I loved it and its message so much. Another major thing that happens in this episode is that Billy almost gets killed. Agatha thinks Billy (Instead of being a Maximoff incarnate) was her dead son reincarnated because he can’t say his name due to there being a spell on him preventing him from doing so. Agatha gets really emotional when Billy almost dies this episode, revealing a side of her nobody has seen.
Episode Five
This episode is one of my favorites because so much happens. So, the Salem Seven chases them into Agatha’s trial. We get Agatha’s trial, which is her facing her ghost mother. When her mother basically says you shouldn’t have been bored, I genuinely started to feel bad for Agatha. When the mother possesses Agatha to leave her to die in the road, my empathy gets thrown out the window for agatha. When Alice blasts Agatha to save her, Agatha steals Alice’s powers which kills Alice. Everyone leaves mad at Agatha (Especially Billy) and then Billy has his reveal of him being Billy, throwing them all off the road. My main issue is that Alice’s death felt so unsentimental. We do get enough closure for it in a couple episodes, but still it’s so tragic. Other than that this was a great episode and I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Episode Six
It’s Billy’s flashback and origin episode! Without going too in depth due to this episode being a lot, a teenager named William Kaplan died next to the hex right when it was closing, and Billy Maximoff transferred into his body. This episode connects everybody in the coven together as people Billy has met prior, and also reveals Lilia put the spell on Billy preventing him from saying who he is. I love this origin, but it kind of makes Wanda’s death in “Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness” even more pointless but at the same time more tragic. She went across multiverses and killed people including herself to be with her kids when Billy was literally a neighborhood down. I like and hate that. Anyway, Billy and Agatha (who pulled herself back on the road) have a confrontation and move on to the next trial. This was a solid episode, and one of my favorites.
Episode Seven
Obviously Patti Lupone gets the best episode. This episode is not only my favorite episode in the series, but in the whole MCU. It’s a lot to explain so without going crazy in details, throughout the show, she has been saying random things at random times. We find out Lilia has been living her life out of sequence, and that’s why she does. We get an answer to everything she randomly says, and we get to know her better. We step in her shoes and view this episode out of sequence and although it’s confusing at first, it comes together beautifully. In the end she masters her craft in tarot and saves everyone from the trial, she then sacrifices herself to kill the Salem Seven. This comes to my only complaint from this perfect episode. The Salem Seven felt more like a plot device to move the story forward. I don’t care too much because they were portrayed really cool and well and the death was directed so cool I didn’t really care. To clarify, there were swords on the roof that would slowly come down the longer they took on the trial. Lilia “overstaying her welcome” on the trial (which is against the rules) caused the tower to rotate over making swords the floor. They all fall in slowmo, giving us a beautiful (until the collision) send off to Lilia. Finally, Rio is revealed as Lady Death, which is the concept of death itself.
Episode Eight and Nine: The Finale
These final two episodes are probably my favorite finale to an MCU show. It was well paced, and not just a battle with an extremely short conclusion. Episode eight is basically the finale with episode nine being an epilogue. Starting on episode eight, the final battle was really well done. Billy and Agatha battle with Lady death for a little bit until Agatha sacrifices herself and dies. Also, Jen (the last remaining witch from the coven besides Agatha and Billy) gets her powers back, gets sent off the road, and flies off. I loved Jen and I am so happy she survived and hopefully we see more of her. At the end of episode eight, when Billy returns home and goes to his room it is revealed that Billy made the road himself. The trials were all inspired by things inside of his room and I love this reveal. I love the parallels between him and Wanda, and they pulled it off well. Episode eight ends with a reveal showing Agatha being alive as a ghost. In episode nine we get her tragic backstory and relations to Death and then we conclude with them setting off to find Billy’s brother.
