This assessment incorporates full spoilers for Agatha All Alongside Season 1, Episode 6.

With final week’s not-so-shocking reveal that Joe Locke’s Teen is definitely Billy Maximoff, son of the Scarlet Witch, it was on this followup episode to supply a logical clarification as to how that may be, what with Billy (and Tommy) disappearing into nothingness on the finish of WandaVision. Episode six, titled “Acquainted by Thy Aspect,” sticks the touchdown, providing new perception into Billy’s character and revealing his true motivations. Better of all, this episode feels essentially the most centered because the premiere, largely as a result of it’s squarely centered on one character as a substitute of bouncing round between everybody within the coven.

It was nice to see William Kaplan’s Bar Mitzvah given the significance of his Jewish id within the comics. The social gathering scene contained a wonderful second with Lilia (Patti Lupone), as she foreshadowed his destiny and eventually revealed it was she who positioned the sigil on him. It’s not completely clear why seeing his future prompted her to guard him from witches. Maybe she sensed one thing else that went unsaid and positioned it to guard him from what was to come back. Hopefully we’ll study the reality behind her actions in a future episode, assuming she didn’t drown to dying in that goop.

Talking of, it felt like a little bit of a copout for Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) to only pull herself out of the muddy depths of the Witches’ Street, when it was initially made out to be so lethal. If she will be able to try this then why didn’t Lilia and Jen (Sasheer Zamata)? Possibly they did and we simply didn’t see it. However both means, making it really easy to get out actually decreased the sense of hazard on the street.

It was good lastly watching Billy and Agatha converse to one another with all of their playing cards on the desk. Seems the actual Billy has fairly the perspective and isn’t the goofy fanboy he made himself out to be. I’m unhappy with Agatha’s clarification as to how she knew his true id. She stated he has the identical inform about his mom, however what’s the inform? What had been the opposite clues that tipped her off? For a twist this pivotal, that undoubtedly ought to have been defined.

There are much more nitpicky points one might have with this episode (which I’ll listing off later, only for enjoyable), however in the end it was a well-executed character examine that introduced collectively most of the present’s story threads in a cool means. William Kaplan dying in a automotive accident, just for Billy to take over his physique moments later because the Hex dissipated, is such a tragic backstory. It was heart-wrenching watching Billy attempt to alter to residing in one other particular person’s physique, particularly the second when he practices saying “I’m William Kaplan” within the mirror. Studying about what occurred to him, whereas additionally seeing how the witches of the coven had been all the time part of his life, made the present come collectively and really feel extra cohesive. Watching Billy piece all of it collectively as Lorna Wu’s model of the ballad performed gave me chills. Hats off to Joe Locke for displaying us the total breadth of his performing capacity, going from taking part in the shy William Kaplan to the moody Billy Kaplan who additionally bought to point out his comedic facet whereas roleplaying The Mare of Easttown with Agatha.

The large surprising shock of this episode was the return of Evan Peters as Ralph Bohner. His presence in WandaVision by no means actually made any sense, however I feel this scene with Billy and boyfriend Eddie (Miles Gutierrez-Riley) redeems him considerably. He’s turn into a paranoid mess (understandably) after being managed by Wanda and Agatha, and the entire sequence was entertaining for the way he bounced backwards and forwards between comedy and despair. The revelation that he’s the one who was compelled to kill Sparky was a real shock, however I’m glad that the unfastened finish from WandaVision was lastly tied up. RIP Sparky.