The 'Agatha All Along' Finale Doesn't Stick The Landing

Agatha All Along

I will maintain that Agatha All Along is one of the best MCU series to date, but in its two-part finale, I couldn’t help but feel a bit let down by the conclusion of the so-called miniseries, which definitely did not end like one.

There were strong elements to the finale. Namely, the entire idea that the Witches Road was always a lie concocted by Agatha for generations as a way to farm witches was very…Agatha, and a neat twist (it truly was...Agatha All Along). Similarly, the reveal that Billy manifested the entire actual Road into existence due to his Wanda-like powers is something I could get behind.

However, the show did end up feeling like it was right back where it started by the end, albeit with a few dead witches along the way.

Opening with Wanda’s dead body and a supposed MCU resurrection looming, the show failed to commit to Billy’s ultimate goal being resurrecting his mother, who he apparently had no attachment to after the muddled events of Westview he doesn’t fully remember. So, the series ends with no Wanda.

Agatha All Along

Rather, we are told that Billy actually wants to find his twin brother, Tommy. But we didn’t accomplish that either by the end of the series. Instead, Billy finds Tommy a body in the form of a currently-dying teen, but we already figured he had a body this whole time. The series ends with a continued search for Tommy, which is how the series ultimately started, and it didn’t feel like any progress was made.

Agatha’s story here was…strange. We flash back to see the birth of her child, Nicholas, where she makes a bargain with Rio Vidal/Death to save his life for some unknown amount of time. But as for the long-referenced romance between the two of them, we acquire zero information on how exactly this started and how a witch and…literally Death became intertwined. I know a lot of people eager to see more about that romance were disappointed, despite the MCU-first “death’s kiss” moment we got by the end.

For a show that did a very good job of feeling like a TV show, by the end it felt like yet another project meant to lead directly into some other unknown other Marvel projects. A Wiccan series, a Speed series, a Wanda movie, who knows. Agatha ended up as…a ghost, which may seem a bit random, but it’s a reference to a comic storyline where she becomes Wanda’s ghostly mentor. If we do see her in the future again I hope she either…solidifies or comes back to life, as I’m not sure the see-through version of her should stay around indefinitely.

I still really love the series as a whole, and I thought the big “reveals” at the end were good. I just didn’t think the show delivered on its central promise to actually reach a meaningful finale that made the perilous Witches Road trek worth it. That’s disappointing, even if I will still rank the show highly among MCU’s catalogue in the end.

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