Agatha All Along: Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End

October 30, 2024 7:06 PM - Season 1, Episode 8

The end of The Road.
posted by 1970s Antihero (10 comments total)

Among other things/people. (Including a lot of theories that I and other people had about who might show up and what they might do.) Good rendition of the Wiccan outfit, good effect for the grave.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:27 PM on October 30 [1 favorite]

I am extremely glad they did not kill the one black character but that she got her prize and walked ( flew) away.
posted by emjaybee at 5:33 AM on October 31 [8 favorites]

Admittedly, I was somewhat bothered by the one black character not getting a whole lot of screen time. It's great that she was freed and claimed her power, but it feels odd that we don't know a lot about her. Especially after such a fantastic development of Alice and Lilia. Very odd and glaring misstep for the show.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:18 AM on October 31 [4 favorites]

nice lampshading of the "fireworks" for marvel endings, and then leading to the denouement

a very nice death, way to lampshade the 'marvel 3rd act' problem (from Wandavision, but also even affecting, like, Wonder Woman) and then write circles around it, to an emotionally satisfying end.
posted by eustatic at 9:14 AM on October 31 [1 favorite]

Oh and, turns out we got the 'kiss'
posted by eustatic at 9:50 AM on October 31 [4 favorites]

For some reason, I thought this was the last episode, and considered it an interestingly ambigous ending.
posted by cheshyre at 2:46 PM on October 31 [1 favorite]

Honestly, this episode being the end would have been hella interesting! But episode 9 is so good, it works out well!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:10 PM on October 31 [1 favorite]

That's some "The Usual Suspects" action for Billy with a side dish of "And you were there, and you were there and you were there!" at the end of this episode.
posted by rmd1023 at 8:33 AM on November 1 [5 favorites]

Also like how Jen, my favorite, won out. Go, girl!

Interesting how Billy realized he made the Road real. And that Agatha did somehow choose to die instead of him, go figure on that one.
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:02 PM on November 3

For some reason, I thought this was the last episode,

Episode 7 also had a sense of finality to it. I think this feeling may be an effect of this TV Show being written in the form of a TV show. Each episode is written to have an ending, unlike the mini-series way that Marvel has been writing its shows
posted by eustatic at 3:42 PM on November 4