Joe Locke on Agatha All Along's Ending and Billy's Twist

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While the ending of Agatha All Along was satisfying for many viewers, some were disappointed by the lack of familiar faces, as well as the fact that episode 9 included a twist that was not unanimously deemed effective. The episode revealed that the Witches' Road was never real… until it was! It turns out that the Ballad of the Witches' Road was something Agatha and her son Nicholas Scratch made up to pass the time before Harkness began using the song to lure unsuspecting witches to her so she could steal their power.

Joe Locke weighs in on Agatha All Along's season finale twist

Agatha was planning to do the same with the new coven she assembles at the beginning of the series, but Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) unknowingly used his vast abilities to shape an entirely new reality, essentially creating the Road and every trial the characters face along it. This also meant he was — directly or indirectly, depending on your point of view — responsible for the deaths of Sharon Hart, Lilia Calderu, and Alice Wu-Gulliver.

During the new episode of the official Marvel Studios podcast, actor Joe Locke shared his thoughts on the twist and sees the development as a way to further connect Wiccan to his mother, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen). “I was really excited because I know it’s a really cool twist and it makes everything make sense. It shows the extent of Billy’s powers and how similar he is to his mother, even subconsciously.”

Is Agatha All Along coming back for a second season? We recently learned that Disney has submitted the series for comedy categories for the upcoming awards season, including the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and next year’s Emmy race. The Television Academy’s criteria for limited series states: “The program must tell a complete, non-recurring story and must not have an ongoing plot or major characters in subsequent seasons.”