For as frustrating as the “WandaVision” finale was, Marvel’s first TV series set in the MCU still managed to do what the studio does best: It teed up what’s next. Sure, escaping her own spell held little bearing on Wanda’s future, whose insulting incarnation in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” repeated character beats from her time in Westview and foolishly killed her off. But what “ WandaVision ” accomplished, no matter how inadvertently, was leaving its audience with lasting affection for the show’s ostensible villain, Agatha Harkness ( Kat h ryn Hahn ).
Her surprise reveal (via musical earworm ) paired with Hahn’s delightfully dastardly depiction gave Agatha the aura of evil without actually forcing her to do anything unforgivable. What did she do? She wanted to steal Wanda’s powers? So what? Good for her! Considering what Wanda did with those powers — enslaving suburban New Jersians so they could act out her favorite TV shows (plus whatever noncanonical sins seen in “Doctor Strange 2”) — Agatha’s attempted theft proved an easily forgiven transgression. For that (and maybe, sort of, definitely killing a dog ), she was cursed to live in Westview forever.
Her memories locked away, her powers gone, Agatha would think she’s nothing more than a nosy neighbor named Agnes until her dying day. If the punishment seemed a bit extreme , tipping the scales of empathy away from the series’ unacknowledged actual villain (Wanda) and towa.