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The two-episode premiere of Agatha’s Journey is finally available on Disney+, taking us on the road to becoming a witch, and no matter how crazy that journey may be, we’re off to a good start. If you need any convincing, you can read our reviews of the first four episodes of Agatha Always. But now we’re going to take a closer look at the first two episodes, and we’re going to break down all the clues and Easter eggs, and what they mean. Since the series focuses primarily on the wizardry aspect of Marvel canon, there’s a lot of content that will be new to most viewers.
Warning: The rest of this article contains complete spoilers for episodes 1 and 2 of Agatha Always.
“Agatha’s Life” opens in Westview Village shortly after Wanda liberates the town and leaves. But Agatha herself (Kathryn Hahn) is still reeling from the aftermath of her battle with Scarlet Witch in the WandaVision finale—she’s apparently a police detective who’s been suspended without pay for some past indiscretions, but Now he’s been called back to handle the murder investigation.
The victim, an anonymous woman wearing a hoodie and jeans, was crushed to death and lying in the middle of the woods. The only thing on the body was a library card, and Agatha found an old locket near the body. She investigates the library to find out what happened to the book – apparently, it was stolen and all the other books in the library were burned.
Then Aubrey Plaza shows up, posing as another detective who clearly knows more than Agatha and is amused by her predicament. They have a strange and contentious argument, which is interrupted by a teenage boy who breaks into the house. She hunts him down and eventually arrests him, and as she attempts to interrogate him, her delusions begin to unravel—the boy’s intervention breaks her out of her brain fog, and she remembers who she is.
Plaza has now revealed herself – she’s Leo Vidal, and she and Agatha have a long relationship, and judging by the tension in their scenes, it’s very physical History together. Rio de Janeiro is heating up. Agatha managed to get her to back off by reminding her that Agatha’s own powers were gone and this wouldn’t be a fair fight. Leo gives her a chance to regain her power before the battle, but promises to inflict the “Salem Seven” on her in the meantime. We’ll meet these creepy old witches later.
So Agatha hatched a plan: She would form a new coven of covens, who would then walk the mythical path of witches, where they would get what they needed most, or something like that. So she and the unknown boy set out on a recruitment mission, and they gathered three witches: fortune teller Lilia Kaldru; Jennifer Kale, the potion master; and Alice Wu Gulliver ), a blood witch who has a very specific reason for taking this path. There’s also Agatha’s neighbor Mrs. Hart, who may or may not be a witch.
They all gather at Agatha’s house and sing a cool song to summon a portal to the Witch’s Path and escape through it when the Salem Seven attack the house. But there is no time to relax because the path of the witch is going to be as scary as those old ladies. But while we wait for next week’s episode three to begin this journey, let’s take a look back at everything you need to know about the Agatha Always premiere, from Easter eggs to story clues and what we can learn from the first two Collect everything collected.
