Ron Does Stuff

I have a headache, fever, and body pain and a long day yesterday but I feel much better than I did earlier this morning when I tried to blog another post. But let’s see how long this healthiness lasts!

After a really good and timey-wimey episode, we’re back with a more straightforward narrative. Straightforward-ish? We start with a flashback to Alice’s very dead body and Death coming to get her. She really is most sincerely dead.

Back in the present, Jen and Billy are distraught at Lilia sacrificing herself for their sake, while Agatha and Death finally face off. And it’s a really intense and emotional encounter and having only watched Kathryn Hahn in comedic roles I gotta say this is a really great scene? The close-ups on her as well!

We also get the reveal that Agatha was protecting Billy from Death, and that she care about this coven more than she is letting on. Death is raring to take Billy because — she’s not wrong about this — his life is supposed to be over. He shouldn’t exist. BUT she can’t just take him because he’ll just reincarnate again. He has to kill himself. My god.

Agatha says he can deliver Billy to Death that way, but in exchange, Death has to stop pursuing her and when Agatha does die, she doesn’t want to see Death’s face. Lesbian break ups are intense.

I really like the way they “refreshed” the trials because at this point in the show viewers may have come to expect there to be a house. But getting to the latest trial by putting on the shoes they had on at the start was a great way to break that expectation and also unsettle the viewers a bit. They end up in a room arriving in body bags, which I feel like a specifically Billy thing because he should be dead. This should be his trial, I feel.

But I guess I’m wrong because Jen basically finds out that it was Agatha who bound her a hundred years ago and there’s this really emotional unbinding spell that Jen performs and props to Sasheer Zamata for her performance here. And then Jen’s gone? Because the Witches’ Road finally gave her what she wanted? I…what? There has to be something more there!

And then we get this intense scene of Agatha helping Billy find a new body for Tommy. And this new body hasn’t had the loving family that Billy is blessed with when he came back. I am guessing this is setting up the Tommy from the comics who ends up in juvie before Billy finds him. I think I’m remembering that right! But that is what Billy asked of the Witches’ Road and he’s gone as well.

Now Agatha is the only left and my heart breaks for her when she says that boys just die. That’s just how it is. Billy didn’t kill that new body. She successfully makes a flower bloom and that should have been the end of it BUT she technically didn’t deliver Billy to Death. So it’s going to be a witch fight!

A lot has been said about how Agatha has been the cheapest MCU show to make or something like that and I love how that has made them be creative about the shooting of fight scenes. In this instance, we have Billy — in full Wiccan attire with his blue powers — be our eyes in the fight so when he gets blasted off to a greenhouse we just get to hear the fight. Great way to save money!

Of course, you’re not going to win a fight against Death. It comes for us all. Agatha dies by making out with Death and I know it’s another dead gay person but I think this is like the first full-on actually impactful lesbian kiss in a Marvel show? I may be wrong but I was all *gasp* when it happened.

There’s a great parallel with his mom the Scarlet Witch as Billy leaves Westview, with him putting his hood on and the citizen watch him leave. But as he returns home and takes a look around his room he realizes that he was the one who opened the Witches Road, seeing as his room had all the elements that were on the Witches’ Road. And then we get a cliffhanger!