Agatha All Along‘s Latest Episode Is All About Its Cliffhanger Ending

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Our heroes’ travel on the Witches’ Road continues successful occurrence 5 of the Marvel Disney+ show, “Darkest Hour/Wake Thy Power.”

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The latest introduction begins with a fox, crow, snake, and owl prowling the wood level of the present precise blue-hued Witches’ Road. Giving important Endor-meets-Dagobah vibes, the animals walk down trees to outgo efficaciously alteration into four-sevenths of the Salem Seven, who, wisely oregon not, person someway recovered a mode to prosecute the coven into their beingness oregon decease trial. The black-robed figures past peel backmost their hoods to reveal… masks. They bash look cool, however, and writhe astir similar ferrets successful wood chips to sniff retired their quarry.

Lilia, having a premonitory dream, awakens the remainder of the radical to pass america the Salem Seven person so arrived done “a doorway near open” by past week’s summoning spell to invitation Rio. It’s present we larn the Seven are the children of Agatha’s archetypal slaughtered coven, who became “a feral, hive-minded” set of shapeshifters connected a crusade of vengeance against Agatha. “The motivation of the communicative is ever decorativeness what you started,” Agatha quips, earlier adding, “also, mercy is overrated.”

Realizing they’re surrounded, Teen suggests a “hexenbesen” (a spell that would traditionally alteration a broom into an improvised aircraft, but immoderate benignant of histrion maturation volition do) which the remainder of the radical instantly dismisses arsenic corny. They springiness in, however, and execute a cute ritual wherever they make and stock their ain modified histrion roots with 1 different similar a crafting circle, earlier taking disconnected successful a country reminiscent of the speeder motorcycle pursuit in Return of the Jedi. While soaring past a humongous “blood moon,” Teen asks, “Why haven’t we beryllium doing this each along?” successful a motion to communal ailment astir the Great Eagles successful The Lord of the Rings movies. As if successful answer, the Road steers them backmost to their adjacent trial—a antithetic determination this time—and we’re transported to a compartment successful the woods, eliciting a 1980s-themed summertime campy slasher movie.

Each subordinate of the coven, too, is dressed arsenic if they’re acceptable for a sleepover with the Wakefield sisters, with Teen’s outfit a motion to his comic publication inspiration (keep reading…). While it’s unclear wherefore this proceedings is 1980s-themed (aside from the amusive acceptable dressing, I guess?), Rio deduces it indispensable beryllium 1 specifically tailored for Agatha, arsenic the elephantine reddish satellite extracurricular indicates “the veil betwixt the surviving and the dormant is astatine its thinnest” and “who amended to commune with the dormant than someone’s whose enactment truthful galore successful the grave?” Sure, let’s spell with it.

Naturally, an Ouija committee presents itself, and upon speechmaking the rules, we larn “a tone volition beryllium released” if immoderate participating practitioner removes their hands from the planchette. So, who plans to commune with Agatha from the different side? Well, aft Agatha does a decent impersonation of Debra Jo Rupp’s precocious character, Sharon, crap gets existent and “D-E-A-T-H” commands she beryllium “P-U-N-I-S-H [E D].”

As the radical members sharpen their claws, speculating connected the champion mode to humiliate her, the committee seemingly brings distant a demonic unit and possesses Agatha. She begins contorting her body, walking connected her hands successful a backbend similar Regan successful The Exorcist before seizing Jennifer successful a stranglehold. When Lilia turns connected the lights, the tone reveals itself: Evanora Harkness, Agatha’s ain mother! She tells the coven they indispensable decorativeness the Witches Road without Agatha, arsenic she was “born evil,” but Rio rejects this. Alice expels Evanora from her big body, but caught successful the moment, Agatha instinctually sucks the beingness unit from her coven-mate, sidesplitting her.

Around this time, the Ouija board’s planchette begins to spell “N-I-C-H-O-L-A-S-S-C-R-A-T-C-H,” seemingly confirming Agatha’s lad is so dead. Having this confirmed is evidently punishment enough, and the 3rd proceedings is completed, conscionable aft the ghostly dependable of a kid tells Agatha to “stop” her post-possessive rampage.

Afterwards, we larn Alice is so truly, astir sincerely dead, and there’s thing the witches tin bash to bring her backmost to life. Teen is outraged by the development, but the remainder of the coven look to instrumentality her passing successful stride—far much truthful than erstwhile Sharon snuffed it successful occurrence three, strangely. “Death comes for america all,” Lilia shrugs, portion Jennifer agrees each subordinate of the radical is arsenic thirsty for power. The idealistic Teen scoffs, “So that’s what it means to beryllium a witch? Killing radical to service your ain agenda?” Agatha, doing that happening wherever she hurts others to support herself, asks him successful an aggressively, sexually-coded way, “Are you sure? You’re truthful overmuch similar your mother.”

Upon proceeding this, Teen snaps, overtakes the minds of Jennifer and Lilia and has them drawback Agatha and flip her into the mud. As she begins to sink, Teen reveals himself to so beryllium Wanda’s magically created son, Billy, and the occurrence ends connected a cliffhanger astir perfectly mirroring the 13th occurrence of Doctor Who’s “Trial of a Timelord” season, successful which Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor is pulled into a pit of quicksand arsenic a future, villainous incarnation of himself stands idly by, watching. We chopped to the credits to the strains of Billie Eilish’s ever-popular “You Should See Me In a Crown.”

In the last recap, I opined Alice’s quality would person been amended served dying astatine the extremity of her ain bespoke episode, arsenic the feint with the evidently destined-for-greater things Teen being gored by a shard of solid (resolved successful minutes) undermined immoderate existent consciousness of severity the trials present. So overmuch for “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” being a extortion spell, I guess? As this is Agatha‘s series, it’s nary concealed the different members of the coven are meant to beryllium cannon fodder and it’s hard to ideate that the likes of Alice Gulliver-Wu, Jennifer Kale, oregon Lilia Calderu volition past to look successful Avengers: Doomsday. It’s besides strikingly unusual however calm the radical is astir her death—not lone having risked their lives successful a literal proceedings by occurrence connected her behalf just the different day, but besides since they collectively mislaid their crap implicit the demise of the conscripted Sharon/Mrs. Hall. Then, it was believed they couldn’t decorativeness their travel without a implicit coven, but present its anybody’s game? Even if the witches are acting connected axenic self-interest alone, this is confusing.

On the different hand, it makes consciousness for the franchise. WandaVision was allegedly a bid astir overcoming grief, but erstwhile we adjacent met the Scarlet Witch successful the Doctor Strange sequel, she went connected a multiversal sidesplitting spree earlier getting squished by a mountaintop. It doesn’t consciousness arsenic if thing successful these MCU shows person immoderate lasting effect connected the movies, and vice-versa, but present that seems to beryllium creeping into this spinoff-of-a-spinoff connected a specified episode-by-episode basis. Still, I’m funny to spot however this bid resolves, and adjacent much funny to spot however it doesn’t interaction immoderate sliver of the wider MCU moving guardant successful the least. That’s witchcraft for you.

There are conscionable 4 episodes of Agatha All Along to go, with the last 2 airing backmost to backmost connected October 30.

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