This article contains spoilers for the Agatha All Along premiere, which includes Episode 1, “Seekest Thou the Road,” and Episode 2, “Circle Sewn with Fate Unlock Thy Hidden Gate.” It’s time, witches. The coven has assembled and Agatha All Along is finally here.
I’ll be honest, I had some worries after the first few trailers, but the two-episode premiere of the latest Marvel show is off to a good start — even if the fake-out detective story overstays its welcome just a hair. For now, the show’s success is in how it’s setting up plenty of intrigue. (Half of the fun of these big, interconnected shows is theorizing, after all.
) Let’s dig into the biggest burning questions out of Agatha’s reintroduction to Westview, starting with the Head Witch in Charge herself, Wanda. There has been no moment since her sacrifice in Multiverse of Madness that I have believed that The Scarlet Witch could be killed by something as silly as a mountain falling on her. The MCU has had its hiccups lately, but we’re above the cliche of dropping proverbial houses on witches, one would think.
Still, part of what’s got me so engaged in these first two episodes of Agatha All Along is that they are both aggressively signaling that Wanda is alive and repeating that she is very dead. The specter of Wanda’s memory continues to haunt the residents of Westview but none so much as Agatha (Kathryn Hahn), who has multiple conversations implying that The Scarlet Witch is still alive. The f.