Maiden Mother Crone

Normally I don't enjoy flashbacks but today I was wrong I really liked it.

Going WAY back to Agatha in her early years and giving birth to her son. We see their travels across the land and how they survived. Agatha shows us why she has a dark side and what seemed to be a hate for witches other than herself. This leads to present day where Billy discovers who he is and what he must do.

The flashback is my favourite aspect of the finale, and quite honestly the last act loses me a bit. I just feel it's quite anticlimactic and doesn't give a good payoff. It ends leaving room for a S2 or other show and what it's doing honestly I don't want it.

Better episodes in the show over this, okay finale, 7/10.

We finally get to see Agatha's backstory, and it is as heartbreaking as it is poetic, revealing both the depth of her darkness and the tragedy of her motherhood. Billy also comes into his own, and we see how much he mirrors Wanda and shares common ground with Agatha. However, the finale again feels somewhat small, lacking the spectacle we've come to expect from MCU series.

The series also enhances our appreciation for WandaVision, serving as a swan song to Wanda's incident in Westview. Agatha's relationship with her son shows her intelligence and cunning in new ways. The sequence illustrating how Agatha manipulates others by exploiting their need for sisterhood is beautifully crafted yet profoundly sad. This was a very good finale, it closes a chapter and sets up the next so neatly it feels like every detail was planned.

When Agatha All Along was announced, I had no idea that it could possibly be as good as it turned out to be. I really loved watching this show, and this finale solidifies that. I remember when the finale of WandaVision came out, a lot of people complained that it ended up being a generic MCU superhero battle. And so the writers of that show heard that and decided to make a finale for AAA that's unique to the characters. Everything about Agatha's story was so well paced, acted, and directed. It really pulls on your heartstrings, while also answering some questions to where did the witches road come from.

The ending was incredibly satisfying and made me want to watch the show again, and that is basically never the case for any marvel disney+ show, besides a few exceptions.

Very satisfied with this finale 1010!

I couldn't be happier with the ending. This show had its ups and downs but at the end, it didn't botch the landing unlike game of thrones.

It was incredible how they set up future events (e.g. Young avengers or even with Vision Quest).

Overall I would say 10/10 and it truly made me believe that the MCU and Disney can make me believe again.

Kudos to the creators of this show. I loved it from beginning to end - with the best one on Episode 7. The Trial of Lilia was heart wrenching. I really cried at the end especially with the choice of the song, Jim Croce "Time in a botte" was very apt for Lilia and her arc.

Hopefully, they'll make more of these kinds of show.

Unlike some people here, I really liked the twist that ended the penultimate episode. And I loved the way later on that this final episode used flashbacks to highlight moments where Agatha was saying things that, in retrospect, did not mean what we thought they meant at the time (it might be interesting to rewatch the series with the new context).

So those parts of the episode I really liked.

As for Agatha's origin story, well, it was kind of interesting but didn't grab me the way everything else in the series did. And also, honestly, even though I knew at the beginning that Agatha was awful, she was fun and less awful for this series and it was hard coming face to face with what a monster she has always been.

The battle between Agatha, the Teen, and Death was fairly enjoyable. But Agatha's action don't really make that much sense in the context of who she's been.

But what really lost me was the very end, with ghost-Agatha. First off, this idea of Agatha gambling on being a ghost seems weird. Then there's this whole bit where Billy gets mad and tries to banish her. But then she stops him and somehow persuades him that really, they're both killers, even though ultimately Billy killed subconsciously and without intent while Agatha was a psychopathic serial killer. So I don't accept the two-sides-of-the-same-coin framing. This makes Billie's acceptance of that frame unpersuasive, especially when the upshot is, "hey, let's be friends and partner up and have adventures!" Which is so WTF that I can't even.

After all that, I just felt, "What? That's it?

I still love the series overall, but I'm pretty mad about that ending, honestly.