Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for Agatha All Alongside episodes 1-7.
The Witches’ Highway has lived as much as its harmful popularity. Throughout the primary seven episodes of Marvel Studios‘ Agatha All Alongside, a number of characters have met surprising, tragic ends on account of the Highway’s trials. Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp) was the primary to go, and she or he’s up to now been adopted by Alice Wu-Gulliver (Ali Ahn) and Lilia Calderu (Patti LuPone). The latter character dies in heroic vogue on the finish of Agatha All Alongside‘s seventh episode, “Demise’s Hand in Mine,” when she sacrifices herself with the intention to take out the villainous members of the Salem Seven and purchase her fellow witches extra time.
“Demise’s Hand in Mine” additionally reveals the true id of Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza). In an eerie encounter, Rio reveals to Lilia that she is Demise herself, an act that later convinces LuPone’s witch to simply accept her destiny. Regardless of the seeming finality of her self-sacrificial act, although, Lilia’s loss of life has been met — like Alice and Mrs. Hart’s — with slight disbelief from followers. Marvel Studios, in spite of everything, has a confirmed observe document of killing characters solely to carry them again to life. It doesn’t, nonetheless, sound like viewers ought to count on that to occur with any of the Witches’ Highway’s newest victims.
“It is a present about loss of life,” Agatha All Alongside creator Jac Schaeffer advised Selection when requested concerning the fates of characters like Lilia, Alice, and Mrs. Hart. “Personally, I really feel that when an individual dies, you may nonetheless speak to them and really feel them, and so they can nonetheless be in your lives. However loss of life is immutable. It’s everlasting. With this present, we needed to pay respect to that. So this a extra earnest and grave dialog about loss of life than possibly you’ll discover in one other superhero venture.”
When she was subsequently requested whether or not or not the Salem Seven actually are as useless as they appear on the finish of Agatha All Alongside episode 7, Schaeffer additional confirmed, “Yeah, the Salem Seven are useless. They’re off the board in our present, is what I’ll say. Lilia has saved all people!” Schaeffer’s feedback, notably, don’t absolutely get rid of the potential for characters like Lilia, Alice, or Mrs. Hart ever showing once more onscreen. It looks as if followers shouldn’t count on them to ever actually come again to life, although.
To its credit score, Agatha All Alongside has confirmed itself unafraid of killing its characters on the drop of a hat. The now-confirmed presence of Demise herself, subsequently, solely provides an additional layer of hazard and unpredictability to the sequence’ forthcoming two-part finale. Schaeffer has kept away from teasing too closely what viewers ought to count on from Agatha‘s remaining episodes, however she did inform Selection “there’s extra Agatha, there’s extra Rio” to come back, in addition to “some fact to be shared about Agatha.”
Followers solely have a couple of extra days to attend earlier than they discover out what that “fact” is, together with whether or not or not Plaza’s Demise is ready to declare any extra lives earlier than Agatha All Alongside reaches its final conclusion.
Agatha All Alongside‘s two-episode finale premieres Wednesday, October 30 on Disney+.