Agatha All Along Episodes Ranked (w/Season SPOILER Review)

Agatha All Along Episodes Ranked (w/ Season SPOILER Review) 

Agatha All Along has finished, we’ve seen all nine of its episodes. That means I’m going to stop and rank all nine episodes from Agatha All Along. Let’s get started!

NOTE: This will be jam packed with SPOILERS, I will discuss a number of the twists and turns revealed. So if you haven’t the entire show, don’t read this post I will spoil stuff! 

• SPOILER REVIEW: Going into this show, I wasn’t very excited for it. I know some people were just crapping on it from the beginning, I wasn’t one of those people. The idea of spinning off Agatha into her own show didn’t sound great to me. Especially, three and a half years after WandaVision, this felt too late and unnecessary. Now having seen the entire show, it still feels very unnecessary. I thought Agatha was a fun character in WandaVision, Kathryn Hahn is great as the character but she was a great side character. I don’t know how much this show actually added to Agatha’s character that was meaningful or interesting. I would have liked to have seen Agatha return, but not in her own show. Whether that’s in Doctor Strange 3 or something else, I’d rather that happen then this. As far as actual specifics about the show, I think it’s the most mediocre thing the MCU has done in recent years. There’s some fun moments here and there, I actually kind of enjoyed the songs in the show. They’re all fun to listen to and enjoy. Kathryn Hahn continues to be great as Agatha, she’s having a lot of fun here. Since she is given nine episodes to flesh out Agatha, there’s more emotional depth to Agatha. Not that this dramatically changes my views on the character, but it’s something I did notice. Pretty much the rest of the show was mediocre and didn’t come together for me. First up, I didn’t really care about any of the side characters. Even the twist about Joe Locke’s character being Wanda’s son was predictable. I know in the show it was treated as a reveal who he really is. But I thought that was common knowledge going into the show, I could have sworn I heard an interview from a producer saying that he was Wanda’s son. Anyways, they fleshed him out but once again I didn’t really care about it. That’s the problem with the show, pretty much everybody in the coven is given their moment to be fleshed out. Some of them even have an episode dedicated to them, but I didn’t care. It didn’t add to anything that made me enjoy the show any more or less. From there, in several of the episodes there’s lazy writing. Characters have to act stupid just so the plot can progress forward. That pulled me right out of the show whenever that would happen. Overall, this show was fine, it’s one of the most mediocre things the MCU has ever done. I didn’t think this show added anything new to the MCU that was of importance. 

9. Circle Sewn With Fate Unlock The Hidden Gate (Episode 2): Despite this being episode two, this feels more like the start of the show then episode one. This episode set the tone of the show more, it balanced the horror with the campy vibe. Has some Evil Dead and Hocus Pocus vibes, that’s something fun and different in the MCU. The problem with this episode is it felt like it needed to be longer. This episode is about recruiting the coven so Agatha can go on her quest, but it’s introducing all of these characters and then we need to set up the cliffhanger to set up the rest of the season. It felt rushed, it felt like we needed another 5-10 minutes. It felt like by the end of this episode, we needed to know more of the plot and what’s going on. This episode is fine, it didn’t do anything that offended me. But it’s also not a great episode that I felt like it could have been.

8. Through Many Miles of Tricks and Trials (Episode 3): The episode that starts the quest that Agatha and friends are on, because of that I appreciate this episode more than the bottom episodes. It sets up some nice mysteries that run throughout the rest of the season. This episode felt like it had story progression and we actually got a sense where this show was going. The name drop of a certain Marvel character was a nice little touch that put a smile on my face. What holds this episode back is I felt like the characters were written a bit weird. When they realize they’ve all been poisoned so they create the potion to cure them, but forgot to give it to Mrs. Hart that leads to the final cliffhanger of the episode, the way that played out was very weird to me. It felt like they wrote the characters weirdly just to have the final cliffhanger, that’s not great writing. 

7. Mother Maiden Crone (Episode 9): I thought this was a bizarre season finale that wasn’t what I expected it to be, but that doesn’t mean that it was good. Episode eight left off on a very interesting cliffhanger, with Agatha sacrificing herself. This first 70% of the episode is focused on Agatha’s backstory and the birth of her child, which on the one hand is very interesting information on the other hand, that came way too late into the season. This stuff should have been shown in episode four or five, much earlier on. That’s a frustrating aspect, because it is interesting and I like what they do with Agatha. But as the season finale, it feels out of place. Then the last 30% of the episode follows Billy after the events of the previous episode, that stuff feels rushed and should have had 5-10 minutes to flesh it out. Then the final scene didn’t fully feel satisfying, now they’re looking for Billy’s brother…cool, I have no idea when that’s going to be followed up. Overall, a pretty disappointing end to the show. 

6. Death’s Hand in Mine (Episode 7): This is the highest rated episode of the show on IMDB, it seems like everybody else that I’ve seen loved this episode. I was a bit late watching it and I thought it was fine. I’m a bit confused where a lot of the praise and love of the episode is coming from. On the one hand, there is some fun and creative costume and production design here. Some of this is heavily inspired by The Wizard of Oz and Maleficent, there’s some fun jokes that come with that. There are some interesting twists and turns in here that I thought worked and ended the episode in a nice way. But I don’t think I needed an entire episode dedicated to Lilia’s backstory, that seems like it would be a great 10 minute segment of an episode. But as an entire 40 minute episode, it felt stretched out and didn’t come together as well as I’d hoped. I don’t think it’s terrible, but it’s not as good as some people want to make it out to be. 

5. Seekest Thou the Road (Episode 1): This is an interesting episode because it feels more so like the prologue to this show, rather than the first episode. It seems like moments from this episode should have been sprinkled throughout the season, rather than an entire 45 minute episode. It felt like an episode that was designed to catch people up on WandaVision who hadn’t seen that show. I think elements of the episode fall a bit flat when you have Agatha trying to learn what happened here, but everybody that’s seen WandaVision already knows what happened so there’s not that much mystery going on there. In the context of the rest of the season, it doesn’t fully fit. Kathryn Hahn is clearly having a lot of fun here, she gets some funny moments and there’s entertainment to be had. But overall, this was a disappointing start to the show. 

4. Darkest Hour Wake Thy Power (Episode 5): This was an episode that I wished I could rank higher, because there’s a lot in here that I appreciated. They do a lot with Joe Locke’s character, we get the reveal to who he actually is. The way it was revealed was pretty cool, it doesn’t have to say anything but we know exactly what’s happening. The reveal itself was pretty predictable, I didn’t find it to be too surprising but sometimes that’s ok. Like in all of the episodes, there’s some fun moments to be had. I did chuckle a few times. The problem with this episode, it was way too short. This episode is 35 minutes long counting six minutes of credits, so it’s a 29 minute episode. This episode needed another 5-10 minutes just to flush everything out. Some of the moments in the final third of the episode could have been fleshed out more and been paid off better. 

3. Follow Me My Friend to Glory at the End (Episode 8): The penultimate episode of the show I thought was a pretty solid episode. The big positive here was I thought it explored the different relationships in this show very nicely and we saw their dynamics. One of the big pieces that this episode focuses on is the relationship between Agatha and Billy and I thought their dynamic here and seeing their relationship fleshed out was handled well. There’s not a lot of it, but you do get some cool witch action in the back half between Agatha and Death that was fun to see. Along those same lines, Agatha and Death get some relationship development here as we see what they meant to one another and what their history was. I thought that was all interesting and a nice touch in the context of the season. I do think the sacrifices made in the back half weren’t fully earned, there’s some interesting ideas that they do there but aren’t fully focused on so they don’t get hit as well as they should. Overall, easily one of the better episodes of the show. 

2. Familiar by Thy Side (Episode 6): This is very much an exposition dump episode, but I thought it was an interesting exposition dump episode. This very much picks up where episode five left off. That episode gave us a cliffhanger that answered one of the show’s big questions. This episode explores that, we learn that Joe Locke’s character is Billy Maximoff, Wanda’s son. We see the events up to the point where we meet his character in this show. It’s interesting whenever we do that, where we see what led the characters to their starting point of this show. It’s great to see Evan Peters again, that was a nice surprise but it feels earned. It would make sense that he would appear in the show, he can bring a fun energy to the show. There’s also some very interesting dialogue between Billy and Agatha, you see the motivation that Billy has and Agatha being her wacky self while appreciating Billy’s ambition. I don’t really have negatives about the episode, I think it’s a solid episode that had some solid and interesting moments. 

1. If I Can’t Reach You Let My Song Teach You (Episode 4): I felt like this was the episode that helped me best understand what the tone and vibe of the show would be. Maybe that’s a problem with the show. It took the fourth episode for me to understand what this show was going to be. Regardless, it helped this episode because it felt important to the show. They started answering some of the questions about certain things, while we don’t get the answers here. We can start crossing things off the list of guesses we had as to who Joe Locke’s character is. By having Aubrey Plaza be more prominent in the episode, we get some backstory between her and Agatha. It makes her character a bit more interesting, it makes Agatha more interesting. The musical number in here is fun, it’s not a fantastic song but it’s catchy and the scene itself is memorable. This isn’t a fantastic episode, but I think there is enough about the episode that it is one of the better episodes.