Ron Does Stuff

I think the paracetamol is kicking in and I am feeling so much better compared to this morning. Let’s get into this finale!

We saw Agatha die in the last episode, as well as Billy be surprised by something. But we don’t get the answer to that just yet as we get a flashback all the way to 1750 where Agatha is pregnant and looking like she’s about to give birth.

And from what I understood of the scene, Nicholas Scratch was…immaculately conceived? Also Agatha calling Death her love. Anyways, Nicholas Scratch wasn’t supposed to even have been born but Death gave Agatha time with him.

That time is six years and throughout that time Agatha does what Agatha does, draining witches of their powers. I kinda wish that they explained why she’s doing it. “To survive” is too…vague. What drove her to do it in the first place? Or is it the deal she had with Death?

Eventually, Death does come for Nicky. But the notoriety of the song he and his mother made up during their travels has transformed into a myth about the Witches’ Road, and Agatha uses it as the new trick to gather witches to her and drain them of their powers. I like that they still put Agatha very squarely into the villain column. She’s got more layers to her, yes, but she’s still very much not a good person.

And then we barrel back to the present, where Agatha is a ghost and Billy realizes the horrible truth: he killed Mrs. Davies, Alice, and Lilia because he made the Witches’ Road real. They’re really underscoring his reality warping powers in the comics!

Billy goes back to Agatha’s house to banish her ghost from this plane but what we get is understanding between the two of them. Agatha doesn’t want to go to the other side because he can’t face Nicky, and Billy realizes that maybe he and Agatha do share some similarities: He did kill the witches in his coven. After reaching that understanding, the two of them resolve to find Tommy and walk into the light.

This was a really good show and really does feel like an actual and emotional sequel to Wandavision, as it is a story of a woman once again confronting and working through her grief. And the story of yet another Maximoff inflicting their emotional problems onto the citizens of Westview. Man, those property prices must be plummeting. I can’t wait to see where they’re taking this further down the road with the Vision show!