TV Shows: Agatha All Along S1 E7
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Agatha All Along : Death’s Hand in Mine Season 1, episode 7 Watched Oct 23, 2024
This review contains full spoilers.
Well … where to begin. Last night’s episode was so dramatic, heartfelt, heartbreaking and full of more surprises than any other episode so far. And that’s saying something. I don’t think I’ve cried so hard at any other TV show like I did last night. Why?
Because this was Lilia’s episode, one in which we finally get to understand what’s been going on with all those sudden outburst of nonsensical snippets. And so so much more. We’re taken behind the curtain and, in an episode that reflects Lilia’s disjointed life, the episode is told through a series of vignettes that will, by the end, all make sense.
And oh, what a crooked difficult, and heartbreaking path poor Lilia has trod in order to be where she is, at the right place, at the right time, in order to fulfil her destiny. And that destiny? Ah … that’s why I was crying. But before then … before I tell you, before I give you the ultimate spoiler, Lilia fills in all the gaps for us. Gaps she’s been living with all her life.
Having fallen through the quagmire that a very angry Billy casually tossed them into at the end of episode 5, after poor Alice’s death at the hands of Agatha. We’re off underground doing what are, I suppose, real-time flashbacks, as Lilia, Jen, and us, hop back and forth through time and place. One minute she’s a young girl back in Italy, being trained by a mentor, the next she’s underground with Jen, wandering tunnels trying to piece together the gaps in her life and memory. All the while, the Salem Seven are once again closing in.
In between this, Agatha and Billy now find themselves in a large castle dressed, like each episode, as characters. This time, Billy is Maleficent and Agatha is Elphaba, the green-skinned wicked witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. While Lilia is piecing together why she’s falling, Agatha and Billy, beneath a ceiling of swords which keep dropping on them, are divining a pack of tarot cards. Unsuccessfully it should be noted, as the ceiling keeps moving down.
The reason? It’s not them who need to be solving the puzzle, but Lilia. And when Lilia and Jen finally find their way from the tunnels to the castle room, and join the other pair. Lilia realises what she has to do and starts divining the cards for herself, as the seeker in order to fulfil her destiny.
Snapping down the cards as she pieces her life together, with the ceiling slowly descending on them all, she finishes the reading, see her future, just as a door opens for them all to escape. Ushering everyone out, Lilia closes the door finally ready to face the Salem Seven and, in doing so, not only kill them all, but in doing so, lose her own life, as all of them eventually end up impaled on the swords in a world turned upside down.
Hence the reason I was crying. Poor brave, muddled Lilia, like Alice, has given her life for her coven sisters. But, fear not, for right at the end, we see the young Lilia right back at the moment of her beginning, with her mentor, back in Italy centuries earlier.
Unlike the very abrupt ending to Alice’s life, we had much more of a build up, and a deeper more heartfelt episode to send Lilia off into the hands of Death. Leaving us wondering, not only where is Rio (Death herself) but with only two episodes left to come, just what else were have to come. Jen’s death? Probably.