Review: Agatha All Along, “Death's Hand in Mine” | Season 1, Episodes 7
Review: Agatha All Along, “Death's Hand in Mine” | Season 1, Episodes 7
Patti LuPone takes center stage in the season’s best episode yet
As I was reviewing the first half of Agatha All Along, I couldn’t tell if I was being too hard on the show. Maybe it was unfair to compare it to the heights of WandaVision or Loki. Maybe this witchy series just wanted to be simple, old-fashioned TV with a predictable episodic structure and corny character work. Maybe I should stop complaining when the trials were too simple or the characters acted too erratic. After all, not every television show needs to strive for greatness, sometimes just being “good” is good enough.
Except it turns out my expectations for Agatha All Along were, if anything, not high enough. This back half of the season has delivered banger after banger, upending expectations, paying off fan theories in a way that feels powerful rather than cheap, and crafting character work that is truly meaningful—not in a “girlfriends chit chatting around a fire” way, but in a “let’s metaphorically contemplate the entire experience of life an…