'Agatha All Along' Season 1 Episode 7 “Death’s Hand in Mine” Spoiler-Free Review
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Agatha All Along’s “Death’s Hand in Mine” is one of the most hauntingly beautiful episodes to come out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Like episode 6 last week, this episode wraps up a few loose ends with only two episodes now left in the season; both will be released next Wednesday, 10/30. Showrunner Jac Schaeffer directed the episode, and the script was written by Gia King and Cameron Squires (who was also responsible for episode 3).
Throughout their journey on the Road, the witches are getting in the way of each other, their pasts, and their powers, with Schaeffer describing them as “similarly flawed individuals who are also selfish and self-serving, who are self-sabotaging, who are constantly standing in their own way.” When “Death’s Hand in Mine” begins, everything starts like in every other trial so far: part of or all of the group approaches a new area, their costumes change, someone triggers a timer to start counting down, and the witches outsmart the challenge. This episode then takes a sharp fork in the road and steers away from that model. It almost seems like the trial outmatches the wit of the coven, and that’s when things really start to get interesting.
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Patti LuPone is perfect as Lilia, and her story in Agatha All Along is developed beautifully throughout this episode’s themes of time, dialectical thinking, and seeing more than what’s on the surface. Jen (Sasheer Zamata), Agatha (Kathryn Hahn), and Teen (Joe Locke) are really more in supporting roles here, but they provide necessary comic relief and help Lilia to really shine in her trial. Agatha even comments that “The Road is a fickle mistress.” The only real downfall is that, while some narrative foreshadowing gets resolved for Lilia’s storyline, several gaps remain in the reveals in episodes 5 and 6.
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Hopefully, the final two episodes dive into some more answers next week as the coven (presumably) gets to the end of the Road. It seems like the next moon phase will be the full moon, which symbolizes the end of a journey. Viewers aren’t even sure who will make an appearance when death can be implied or faked on the Witches’ Road. It’s possible someone surprising will return.
Rating: 9/10
Only one more week to go for the final two episodes of Agatha All Along, which will be directed by Gandja Monteiro, who directed episode 6, “Familiar by Thy Side,” as well.
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