Just in time for Halloween, Disney’s Wizarding Series Agatha has always The ending is divided into two parts. Before this week, the show (starring Kathryn Hahn, Joe Rourke and Aubrey Plaza) had been delivering some of the best shows Marvel TV We’ve seen exciting twists and turns rooted in emotional stakes. It’s very disappointing that just a week after it was released best drama, Agatha has always It ended in failure.
With Lilia’s death in last week’s episode, the surviving coven members find themselves at the end of the road as witches. The only obstacles between the surviving trio and the realization of their greatest wish are a final trial and the looming presence of Agatha’s newly revealed ex, die (square). The first half of the two-part finale focuses on this trial, which asks the witches to make something grow inside the lifeless concrete and metal shell.
Despite having twice as much time to tell the story’s ending, Agatha has always Rush past the end of the Witch’s Road. This leads into the story of Jenny, whose story of being mysteriously bound a century ago has been teased for several episodes, with her entire arc quickly tied up with a bow and sent off without fanfare. It’s a deflating moment, as the show hints that this is something big waiting to be revealed, but everything goes nowhere when the only truth is that Agatha accidentally tied up Jane for some quick money in the past, and the two It took a few minutes for the people to resolve their differences. Jean has never been one of the show’s strongest characters, and she ends her arc with this haphazard ending a week after Patti LuPone gave one of the show’s best performances. define plot It was a major mistake.
Once Jen exits the screen, Agatha has always is free to refocus on its most important aspect, the relationship between Agatha and Billy. The two were on the verge of death because they failed to pass the test. Agatha helped Billy connect with his own powers and discovered the whereabouts of his missing brother, thus fulfilling his wish to lead the witch’s path and sending him to the witch’s path. . This moment also leads to the show’s most heart-wrenching revelation: Agatha’s son wasn’t sacrificed by her on the witch’s path at all, he just died. When Kathryn Hahn quietly tells Billy that sometimes boys just die, it’s a heartbreaking confession that no power in the world can stop death.
But since this is a Marvel production and we haven’t seen the first half of the finale yet, we can’t end with this emotion. The climax of the first part devolves into another special effects-heavy brawl, with Death and the team of Billy and Agatha firing different colored magic blasts at each other. so far, Agatha has always It largely eschews action, choosing instead to focus on the interesting puzzles the coven must face in each trial. Swap all that originality for action that makes your eyes glaze over and makes me wish this show would end soon.
Thankfully, the show ended quickly. Agatha chooses to sacrifice herself to save Billy, sharing a passionate kiss with her long-time lover Death, which instantly causes Agatha to drop dead. It’s nice that we did get a kiss between Plaza and Hahn in the show because they played their characters to be so obviously queer, but it’s almost laughable that Agatha was killed off immediately after this show , this has to be one of the most compelling shows–cases of “kill your gays” that keep coming. Oh, and we actually have one more episode to go!
You may be wondering what else is going on, the show’s main character just died! But the end of Part One reveals that the Witch’s Path was created by Billy’s powers unconsciously turning his dreams into reality. This is what fans revealed Already timedbut it still feels like a cheap ploy that does nothing but take away the meaning of a basically great show.
But before we get started, one final episode Agatha has always It begins with a lengthy flashback, revealing the story of Agatha’s son Nicholas. The boy proved destined to die in childbirth, until Agatha begged her lover to spare his life. Of course, all deals come with a price, and Death warns Agatha that his time is still limited. Agatha and Nicholas lived quite happily for several years, naturally, until one night Nicholas died in his sleep. Yet what is supposed to be a window into Agatha’s most vulnerable soul feels like foreshadowing for a dated ending. Marvel projects, whether for the big or small screen, seem to believe that subtlety is the enemy. This is just another example of this mentality, as the single quiet moment between Billy and Agatha in the first part of the finale contains far more meaning and power than this extended sequence. Instead of “show, don’t tell,” Marvel chooses to show, show, and keep showing until they break your heart and realize that this is supposed to be sad. Of course, it’s inherently tragic for parents to outlive their children, but stretching this emotion to its limits comes with diminishing returns.
As its final and grandest reveal, Agatha has always Everything we’ve seen before is re-constructed in a much worse way. This isn’t really a show about Agatha, it’s Billy’s show first and foremost. The deaths of all other Wizard members (except for the surviving Jean) are merely footnotes in his origin story. To justify the series’ choice, Agatha once again appears in ghost form to Billy as his debate partner—perhaps Marvel’s most egregious example yet of his apparent unwillingness to commit About killing off a fan-favorite character despite death writing them into it. As the show tells it, this whole journey just shows that Billy is a killer like his mother, a man who can’t control his dark powers. Just as the dead coven members are nothing more than fodder for the Wiccan’s character growth, the entire Agatha has always It feels like another Marvel project that doesn’t stand on its own but rather provides fodder for the grander MCU machine.
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