But the chaotic double-billed finale trips over its own ambition, and frustratingly falls into Marvel tropes.
This review contains major spoilers for Agatha All Along episodes 8 and 9.
“These are grow lights,” Jen says, clocking the neatly-arranged pink beams emanating from the ceiling.
“Are we supposed to grow something here?”
“In a place with no soil or water?
It certainly has the irritating sting of a Witches' Road trial,” snaps Agatha.
All this leads to a rather rushed realization that Agatha was responsible for Jens binding.
“It was the 1920s, I did the odd spell for bank notes.
A lonely Agatha comforts herself with Nicholas' lock of hair.
Inside her locket, however, she finds a seed, which she plants.
“Why don’t you want me?!”
It’s so jarringly vindictive, given what we’ve seen of the character so far.
Perhaps Rio and Death are two distinct personalities occupying the same body?
But if they are, the show does nothing to support that theory.
“She is my scar,” a sorrowful Rio said of Agatha in episode 4.
What’s the point of setting all that up if you’re not going to bother exploring it?
With that, she kisses Death, and dies.
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