Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along.Photo:© 2024 MARVEL
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Warning:Agatha All Alongspoilers ahead!
Agatha Harkness first graced screens in 2021’sWandaVisionas the coven-less witch behind the nefarious plot of the show, but in her spin-off,Agatha All Along, it turned out itwasn’tAgatha all along.
Teen convinces Agatha to take him on the Witches' Road, a perilous journey that promises a witch their deepest desire at its end after a number of trials and challenges. To go on the road, Agatha explains one needs a coven, so she assembles a group of downtrodden witches: potion-making Jen (Sasheer Zamata), foreshadowing Lilia (Patti LuPone), spellbound Alice (Ali Ahn) and clueless Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp).
Along their journey, the group makes a number of discoveries — most notably, the true identity of Teen. In the fifth episode, viewers discover he isactually Wanda’s son Billy reincarnatedin the body of William, a local teenage boy, after Wanda implodes the sitcom version of Westview that she created.
So what happens to Agatha and Billy? Here’s theAgatha All Alongending, explained.
Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness and Joe Locke as Billy Maximoff in Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along.© 2024 MARVEL
The nine-episode limited series came to an end in a two episode finale. In the penultimate episode, only Agatha and Billy are left on the Witches' Road after Agatha breaks her bound on Jen’s magic powers, and she is able to leave. To help Billy meet his final goal — finding his twin brother Tommy — Agatha performs a sort of guided meditation, coaching him on where to locate the boy.
Billy achieves his desire, leaving Agatha alone to complete the trial: making something grow in a room with no soil or water. She accomplishes it, using her tears to plant a flower in the cracked floor and exits the Witches' Road.
In a heroic moment, Agatha sacrifices herself for Billy — but the show doesn’t end there. Billy finds out that the Witches' Road was something he crafted himself using his powers, and Agatha isn’tfullydead: she’s back as a ghost.
Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along.© 2024 MARVEL
The season finale takes a step back into Agatha’s life, exploring her villain origin story. Throughout the show, its alluded that Agatha suffered a massive heartbreak when her son, Nicky, died, with some assuming she sacrificed him for her powers.
One day, Nicky doesn’t go along with Agatha’s bit to kill witches, and the two don’t complete the job. That night, Rio takes the 6-year-old boy, with whom Agatha crafted the “Ballad of the Witches Road” song that others began to believe opened the door to the Witches' Road.
In the episode, its revealed the road never existed. Agatha began a con, performing the opening song and made-up ritual with a group of witches, manipulating them into blasting her with their power so she could kill them and grow ever more powerful.
Therefore, it was Billy who created the Witches' Road, much to Agatha’s surprise, leading to her early suspicion he was the Scarlet Witch’s son.
Joe Locke as Billy Maximoff and Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along.© 2024 MARVEL
Billy and Tommy died inWandaVisionwhen Wanda imploded the world she created, including her fictional sons. However, at the same time, William, a local teen, and his family get into a car accident, and William dies — only to be reincarnated as Billy. However, Tommy is nowhere to be found, making locating him Billy’s deepest desire on the Witches' Road.
“There’s no one to love him! He’s got no one!” Billy screams in his panic as he makes his discovery.
In the final scene of the show, Agatha, in her ghost form, joins Billy, and the two embark on a new journey to find Tommy.
Sasheer Zamata as Jennifer Kale, Joe Locke as Billy Maximoff, Patti LuPone as Lilia Calderu and Ali Ahn as Alice Wu-Gulliver in Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along.© 2024 MARVEL
The only witch to survive is Jen, and her story ends in the finale when Agatha unbounds her, returning her powers to the potion-making witch. In her final scene, Jen breaks out of the Witches' Road and takes flight to build a new life for herself.
The final witch to join the coven is Rio, who is revealed to be Lady Death. In her final scene, she tragically claims Agatha’s life after the two share a passionate kiss (they are ex-lovers).
Joe Locke as Billy Maximoff in Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along.© 2024 MARVEL
After the show wrapped, fans began to speculate that the final scene set up the premise of Marvel’s upcoming show about Vision. The new series will seePaul Bettanyreprise the character, who, as Agatha so eloquently put, was presumably being sold for parts after he died inWandaVision.
Since Billy made his return in this show, fans guessed that Tommy could come up in the Vision show, which is currently titledVision Quest.
In the comics, Billy is part of the group, and Tommy is as well, under the name Speed, for the super-speed power he seemingly inherited from his uncle, Wanda’s brother Pietro.
Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in Marvel Television’s Agatha All Along.© MARVEL 2024
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Agatha All Alongwas originally billed as a limited series, however, it seems there might be a season 2 in its future, according to showrunner Jac Schaeffer.
“With this show, we wanted to tell a complete story, and I hope that we did. But as a fan and as an admirer, I believe that there is so much more story to tell about all of these characters,” Schaeffer toldDeciderafter episode 7 was released.
Though Agatha’s own show’s future is uncertain, executive producer Brad Winderbaum toldScreen Rantthat Marvel fans will be seeing more of the character in the future.
“You know, when you have an icon like Kathryn Hahn has brought to the screen with Agatha you just want to see more of her,” Winderbaum told the outlet. “Yes, there will be more Agatha in the future of the MCU.”
source: people.com