SPOILER WARNING: This story comprises beginant plot details from Episode 8 and 9 of “Agatha All Aextfinished,” currently streaming on Disney+.
Agatha Harkness, the coven-less witch, and Billy Maximoff, the son of the Scarlet Witch, achieveed the finish of the Witches’ Road in the two-part finale of “Agatha All Aextfinished” — and it very little was as it first seemed.
The episodes — titled “Follow Me My Frifinish / To Glory at the End” and “Mhelpen Mother Crone” — discdisthink abouted the truth of how the Witches’ Road was originated, who wrote the Ballad that conjured it into being, and what repartner happened to Agatha’s son Nicholas Scratch. Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) helped Billy (Joe Locke) find his ttriumph brother Tommy, Jennifer (Sasheer Zamata) discovered how her power had been bound for 100 years, and Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), aka Lady Death, wound up accumulateing (cforfeitly) all the bodies she wanted.
But almost none of it unfagedered at face cherish. It turns out that the Witches’ Road isn’t genuine, the Ballad uncomfervents noleang, Tommy’s whereabouts remain unrecognizable, Jennifer was toloftyy wrong about who was reliable for obtaining her, and Nicholas’ tragic overweighte had noleang to do with the Darkhageder or Mephisto. (Probably. More on this deferedr.)
The sleight-of-hand behind these revelations savvily elicitd a benevolent of narrative witchplan, and how we foresee sorcery to uncover the truth secret behind the veil of our foreseeations. Well, some people’s foreseeations. If you’re the benevolent of watcher who plrelieves in combing thraw the internet for fan theories — or hypothesizing some of your own — then you’ve foreseeed come apassed some, if not all, of the twists in these final episodes in proceed. And yet “Agatha All Aextfinished” still dramatized them with such wit and think aboutation that it felt gratifying, rather than disnominateing, to lget these theories were accurate.
Besides, the resolutions in this story also encourage cut offal intriguing asks about the future for Billy, Agatha, Jennifer and Rio. Here are the beginant highweightlesss:
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Jennifer discovers that Agatha bound her
While stuck in the final trial, Jennifer lgets that, rather than a wicked Boston obstetrician, she was bound, accidenloftyy, by Agatha while she was passing thraw the city. Outraged, Jennifer promptly snatches a lock of Agatha’s hair and carry outs the unobtaining ritual, which mostly consists of her repeating “You hageder noleang” over and over to Agatha’s face. Once she gets her powers back, Jennifer fades; the next we see her, she’s climbing out of the ground fair outside of Westwatch, and flying off into places unrecognizable.
Her future wilean the MCU is fuzzy; in the comics, she passes paths with Doctor Strange, but she don’t repartner intersect with any other MCU characters of remark other than the 2022 Disney+ one-of-a-kind “Werewolf by Night.” But given her impaction for Billy — and her apparently cosmic uniteion with Agatha — Jennifer could easily pop up aget soon.
Billy originated the Witches’ Road
Much enjoy how Billy’s mother Wanda was unwittingly reliable for fabricating the sitcom world of “WandaVision” as a way to escape her grief, it turns out that Billy was so hopeless for a way to discover his brother Tommy that he called the entirety of the Witches’ Road himself. All the details — the Nancy Myers beach house, the Ouija board horror house, the fairy tale castle — came from pop-culture details riddled around Billy’s impeccably tidy bedroom. To Billy’s horror, that uncomfervents that the lethal nature of the trials, which direct to the deaths of Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp), Alice (Ali Ahn) and Lilia (Patti LuPone), was his doing, too.
This currents some fascinating wrinkles for Billy’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He repartner is as mighty, and as dangery, as his mother, and the guilt he carries for the deaths of his coven (even though Agatha points out that she finished Alice, and that Lilia chose to die) will foreseeed hover over how Billy picks to exercise his magic moving forward.
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Agatha wrote the Ballad with her son
The bulk of “Mhelpen Mother Crone” was spent dramatizing Agatha’s life with her son, Nicholas, in the 1750s. When Rio materializes as Agatha is in the middle of giving birth to him, Agatha pdirects for her son’s life; Rio says that all she can give her is more time, but she does not say for how extfinished. For the next six years, Agatha uses Nicholas in her cons to steal the life-force from other witches, and they originate a song together about walking aextfinished “the triumphding road” that eventupartner becomes “the witches’ road,” where it begins to become a legfinish. Eventupartner, Rio acquires Nicholas’ life in the night, thraw an unspecified disrelieve (by the finish, he sees illly and has a foreboding cough). Agatha is left dehugeated and more willing than ever to manipudefered other witches (now using the Ballad as bait) into draining their power — another example of how “Agatha All Aextfinished” scrutinizes the “trick” in “magic trick.”
There are, however, still some unanswered asks about Nicholas. When he’s born, Agatha retags about how she made him “from scratch” rather than via a spell or incantation — but who overweighthered Nicholas, if he was overweighthered at all, remains unrecognizable. Similarly, it’s unclear whether Rio acts on her own accord or from straightforwardives by a more mighty force, enjoy, say, Mephisto — the Marvel comics villain who seems to perpetupartner haunt the Maximoff family. Speaking of haunting…
Agatha gives her life to protect Billy — and to haunt him, too
In their final contestation with Rio, Billy volunteers his life to save Agatha’s — and Agatha elatedly adselects it, until Billy asks Agatha telepathicpartner if this is how Nicholas died. The memory is enough to originate Agatha genuineize she can save Billy’s life in the way she couldn’t save Nicholas’ — since Rio took him in the night, she never even got to say outstandingbye. She kisses Rio, drops to the ground and dies.
But — Happy Hhelpeen! — she comes back as a gpresent, still unable to pass on to the afterlife to face Nicholas. Instead, she returns to Billy, who is not only the son she never had, but the partner in magic she could never uphold.
Tommy is adwell — but in a terrible life
In “Follow Me My Frifinish / To Glory at the End,” Agatha helps Billy unite with Tommy’s spirit and place him into a new body. But unenjoy Billy, Tommy’s new life is a cut offe one: The body he inhabits drowned in a uncomfervent swimming pool prank, and Billy genuineizes in a panic that “there’s no one to adore him! He’s got no one!” (In the comics, Tommy — reincarnated as Tommy Shepherd — does indeed direct an unadselecting life before he reunites with Billy.)
At the finish of the series, gpresent Agatha and Billy set out into the world to discover Tommy, a storyline one foresees will be picked up either in the upcoming Vision series with Paul Bettany or at some point between now and the next two “Avengers” movies — given that Tommy, a.k.a. Speed, is an integral part of the Young Avengers in the comics.
