The eighth and ninth episodes (season finale) of Marvel’s Agatha All Along are now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar Malaysia. I’ll be discussing heavy spoilers so if you haven’t seen it or want to avoid spoilers, now’s your chance to stop reading.

Check out my spoiler-free review of Marvel’s Agatha All Along Season 1 here.

Check out my breakdown of Marvel’s Agatha All Along Episodes 1 and 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6 and Episode 7 here.

The synopsis reads:

In “Agatha All Along,” the infamous Agatha Harkness finds herself down and out of power after a suspicious goth Teen helps break her free from a distorted spell. Her interest is piqued when he begs her to take him on the legendary Witches’ Road, a magical gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards a witch with what they’re missing. Together, Agatha and this mysterious Teen pull together a desperate coven, and set off down, down, down The Road…

In addition to Kathryn Hahn, “Agatha All Along” stars Joe Locke, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Maria Dizzia, Paul Adelstein, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Okwui Okpokwasili, with Debra Jo Rupp, with Patti LuPone, and Aubrey Plaza. The executive producers are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Mary Livanos and Jac Schaeffer. The directors for the series include Jac Schaeffer, Rachel Goldberg and Gandja Montiero.

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Alice Really Is Dead

Rio AKA Death confirms that Alice is indeed dead, so we see her in some kind of afterlife.

Now, only Agatha, Billy and Jennifer are still alive.

Death Wants To Stop Billy From Disrupting The ‘Sacred Balance’

It’s because Billy took a life (William Kaplan’s) when he reincarnated and she can’t simply kill him because he’ll just reincarnate again. She’s also afraid that Billy will bring Tommy back the same way he was brought back to life.

So, Agatha makes a deal with Death to give her Billy in exchange for not being in her life or letting her finally die (or something).

It’s also revealed that Agatha never sacrificed her son, Nicholas and that the rumour is all made up.

It’s Revealed That Agatha Was The One Who Binded Jennifer’s Magic

And she regains her powers after immediately doing a simple unbinding ritual using Agatha’s hair.

After she regained her powers, the Witches Road sent her back to the real world because she received what she wanted from the Witches Road; her powers.

Now, only Agatha and Billy remain.

Billy Apparently Successfully Brings His Brother Back To Life

We see him having a vision of another boy in the process of drowning and apparently, Tommy will reincarnate into this person. It’s implied that Tommy is successfully reincarnated because Billy then disappears from the Witches Road.

This is different from the comics. In the comics, both Billy and Tommy were reincarnated at the same time, albeit in different families. Billy was not responsible for Tommy’s reincarnation, or vice versa.

Billy Suits Up In His Comics Costume And Comes Back To Save Agatha From The Witches Road By Giving Her Some Of His Powers

It’s pretty accurate to his comic book costume.

However, giving Agatha some of his powers probably isn’t a good idea. But that’s what she wanted from the Witches Road in the first place.

Agatha Tricks Billy Into Giving Himself Up Willingly To Death But Then Changes Her Mind And Gives Herself Up

It was her plan all along.

However, when Billy brings up Nicholas (her son), she goes to kiss Death, which means that she’s giving herself up instead.

We See Death’s True Face After Agatha Sacrifices Herself For Billy

Death lets Billy go after Agatha gives herself up.

Also, Death looks great and comics-accurate in this shot (above)!

After this, Billy returns to his family (the Kaplans) and it turns out he’s only been gone for 24 hours, despite spending days with Agatha and the others in the Witches Road.

Billy Realizes Everything That Happened On The Witches Road Was Because Of Him

Episode 8 ends with Billy going back to his room and finding references to everything that happened while he was on the Witches Road. It’s implied that he caused everything to happen in the way that it all happened because of his powers. In the comics, Billy is so powerful that he can make things happen by wishing them, so perhaps the MCU version of Billy has similar powers.

Flashback Shows What Happened To Agatha’s Son, Nicholas

In a flashback scene, we see Agatha giving birth to Nicholas Scratch but she made some kind of deal with Death beforehand.

Agatha kills witches and steals powers from them, to sustain both her and Nicholas and to keep them alive. They do this for years, even until Nicholas is around six years old.

Maybe that was the deal Agatha made with Death, she would kill witches and offer them to Death, in exchange for the life of Nicholas. Perhaps Nicholas was destined to die at birth and this deal is the only thing keeping him alive.

One night, Death sends the Salem Seven to take away Nicholas. Maybe because his time is up or because Agatha didn’t kill any witches that day.

After Nicholas was taken away, Agatha used the Witches Road as an excuse to collect covens and steal their powers by killing them.

Agatha Is A Ghost Now And It’s Revealed That Billy Created The Witches Road

She re-appears to Billy after we (the viewers) learn that the Witches Road never really existed and that it was Billy all along who made the Witches Road into reality. The Witches Road was previously just a ruse and trick Agatha used to collect covens and steal their powers.

Also, Agatha being a ghost is actually comics-accurate. In the comics, for the longest time, Agatha existed only in her ghost form after she was killed by the Scarlet Witch. She would later appear as a ghost from time to time and she was only recently brought back to life in the comics.

Jennifer Kale Is Alive And Has Her Powers Restored

It’s confirmed, hopefully she will return to the MCU someday.

Agatha Reveals Why She Doesn’t Want To Die Or Move On

Billy was close to banishing Agatha’s ghost but she reveals that she doesn’t want to die or move on to the afterlife because she feels like she can’t face her son, Nicholas, after everything that’s happened.

Billy also makes a memorial to the witches who died.

Agatha All Along Ends With Billy And Agatha On A New Journey To Find The Reincarnated Tommy

Will we see Billy and Agatha again in a new series or movie? Only time will tell.

It’s been a great time, comic book fans.

See you for the next one, which will probably be Marvel’s What If in December 2024.

Until then, excelsior!