SPOILER WARNING: This story includes main plot details from episode 8 and 9 of “Agatha all the time”, currently streaming on Disney+.

Agatha Harkness, the witch without a coven, and Billy Maximoff, the son of the Scarlet Witch, reached the end of the Witch’s Path in the two-part finale of “Agatha All Along,” and very little was as it first seemed. .

The episodes, titled “Follow Me, My Friend/To Glory at the End” and “Maiden Mother Crone,” revealed the truth of how the Witch’s Path was created, who wrote the ballad that created it, and what really happened. Agatha’s son, Nicholas Scratch. Agate (Kathryn Hahn) helped Billy (Joe Locke) locates her twin brother Tommy, Jennifer (Sasheer Zamata) discovers how her power had been limited for 100 years, and Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), aka Lady Death, ended up collecting (almost) all the bodies she wanted.

But almost none of it was developed to the letter. It turns out that the Witch’s Path isn’t real, the Ballad doesn’t mean anything, Tommy’s whereabouts remain unknown, Jennifer was dead wrong about who was responsible for tying her up, and Nicholas’s tragic fate had nothing to do with the Darkhold or Mephisto. (Probably. More on this later.)

The sleight of hand behind these revelations cleverly evoked a kind of narrative witchcraft, and how we expect witchcraft to uncover the truth hidden behind the veil of our expectations. Good, some people’s expectations. If you’re the kind of viewer who delights in searching the Internet for fan theories, or hypothesizing some of your own, then you’ve probably found some, if not all, of the twists in these final episodes beforehand. And yet “Agatha All Along” still dramatized them with such wit and thoughtfulness that it was gratifying, rather than disappointing, to know that these theories were correct.

Additionally, the resolutions of this story also raise several intriguing questions about the futures of Billy, Agatha, Jennifer, and Rio. Here are the highlights:

Jennifer discovers that Agatha tied her up

While trapped in Judgment Day, Jennifer discovers that instead of an infamous Boston obstetrician, Agatha accidentally tied her up while passing through town. Outraged, Jennifer immediately grabs a lock of Agatha’s hair and performs the untying ritual, which mainly consists of repeating “You have nothing” over and over again in Agatha’s face. Once she regains her powers, Jennifer disappears; The next time we see her, she breaks out of the ground on the outskirts of Westview and flies to parts unknown.

His future within the MCU is uncertain; in the comics, he crosses paths with Doctor Strange, but doesn’t actually cross paths with any other notable MCU characters aside from the 2022 Disney+ special “Werewolf by Night.” But given her affection for Billy and her seemingly cosmic connection to Agatha, Jennifer could easily show up again soon.

Billy created the Witch’s Path

Just as Billy’s mother Wanda was unknowingly responsible for fabricating the sitcom world of “WandaVision” as a way to escape her grief, it turns out that Billy was so desperate to find his brother Tommy that he summoned to all the Witches. ‘ Same path. All the details (Nancy Myers’ beach house, the Ouija board horror house, the fairytale castle) come from pop culture details found in Billy’s impeccably tidy bedroom. To Billy’s horror, that means that the deadly nature of the trials, which led to the deaths of Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp), Alice (Ali Ahn), and Lilia (Patti LuPone), were also his doing.

This presents some fascinating aspects for Billy’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He really is as powerful and dangerous as his mother, and the guilt he carries for the deaths of his coven (although Agatha points out that she killed Alice and that Lilia chose to die) will likely focus on how Billy chooses to wield his magic in the future.

Agatha wrote the ballad with her son.

Most of “Maiden Mother Crone” was devoted to dramatizing Agatha’s life with her son, Nicholas, in the 1750s. When Rio appears while Agatha is about to give birth to him, Agatha pleads for the life of his son; Rio says all he can offer her is more time, but he doesn’t say for how long. Over the next six years, Agatha uses Nicholas in her scams to steal the life force of other witches, and they write a song together about walking “the winding path” that eventually becomes “the witches’ path,” where it begins. to become a legend. Ultimately, Rio takes Nicholas’ life overnight, through an unspecified illness (in the end, he appears sickly and has a premonitory cough). Agatha is left devastated and more willing than ever to manipulate other witches (who now use the Ballad as bait) to drain her power, another example of how “Agatha All Along” explores the “trick” in the “magic trick.”

However, there are still some unanswered questions about Nicholas. When he is born, Agatha comments that she created him “from scratch” rather than through a spell or enchantment, but it is unknown who Nicholas’s father was, if he had one. Similarly, it is unclear whether Rio acts of his own will or under the directives of a more powerful force, such as, for example, Mephisto, the Marvel comics villain who seems to perpetually haunt the Maximoff family. Speaking of disturbing…

Agatha gives her life to protect Billy and also to pursue him.

In his final confrontation with Rio, Billy volunteers his life to save Agatha’s, and Agatha gladly accepts it, until Billy telepathically asks Agatha if this is how Nicholas died. The memory is enough for Agatha to realize that she can save Billy’s life in the same way she couldn’t save Nicholas’s; Since Rio took him away at night, he couldn’t even say goodbye. He kisses Rio, falls to the ground and dies.

But Happy Halloween! — she returns as a ghost, still unable to pass into the afterlife to face Nicholas. Instead, she returns to Billy, who is not only the son she never had, but the partner in magic she could never keep.

Tommy is alive, but in a terrible life.

In “Follow Me, My Friend/To Glory at the Last,” Agatha helps Billy connect with Tommy’s spirit and place him in a new body. But unlike Billy, Tommy’s new life is hard: the body he inhabits drowned in a cruel pool prank, and Billy realizes in a panic that “there’s no one to love him! He has no one! (In the comics, Tommy, reincarnated as Tommy Shepherd, leads a ruthless life before reuniting with Billy.)

At the end of the series, the ghosts Agatha and Billy go out into the world to find Tommy, a story that is expected to be picked up in the upcoming Vision Series with Paul Bettany or sometime between now and the next two “Avengers” movies, since Tommy, aka Speed, is an integral part of the Young Avengers in the comics.