(This article contains SPOILERS for ‘AGATHA, WHO ELSE?’ 1×07)
To the series of Marvel directly derived from Scarlet Witch and Vision It took him a while to find his tone, but finally Agatha, who else? has managed to make the seventh episode of its journey work as a solid, entertaining and interesting story beyond futile attempts to claim importance within the future development of the MCU.
Jac Schaeffer, creator and showrunner of the series, returns to directing in an episode that turns out to be fundamental to face the outcome that will come with the joint broadcast of the eighth and ninth chapters next week. In addition to advancing on the rugged route of Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) and his companions along the Witches’ Path, gives a great opportunity to shine. Patti LuPone, Lilia actress.
What happens to Lilia in ‘Agatha, who else?’
This episode is dedicated to Lilia Calderu, the Sicilian witch with more than 450 years of age who plays Patti LuPone, a well-known actress on the Broadway scene and musical theater, which has three Tony Awards in its career (plus a pair of Grammy Awards as an opera singer).
Lilia is the protagonist of the new trial posed by the Path of the Witches, which leads to Delve into your powers of divination through a test based on a tarot card reading. Agatha and Teen (Joe Locke) They are the first to reach the room where swords fall from the ceiling if the correct cards from the deck are not placed, but Lilia is the one who ends up performing the reading for herself.
This is how we live first hand his discontinuous experience of time, which leads your consciousness to jump through different periods without you being able to do anything to avoid it. In that way, we see her as a young apprentice in her first coven in Sicily and revisit moments from previous episodes of the series where Lilia seemed to say things without meaning… but now they have an explanation.
He most emotional moment It comes, of course, from understanding what his last words are before the character’s death. “At first we all hated each other, but now…” cut to “I love you girls,” in two separate moments of the series’ third episode.
Who is Aubrey Plaza in ‘Agatha, Who Else?’
Lilia’s tragic end serves to confirm one of the most repeated fan theories regarding the identities that Agatha, who else? He wanted to hide his audience. Indeed, Rio Vidal is Death. The character played by Aubrey Plaza is definitively revealed this week as the incarnation of Death, and therefore one of the most powerful members of the Marvel Universe in the comics.
Of course, Agatha (who else?) knew Rio’s true identity from the beginning. Surely at the end of the series we will see the extent of sexual tension that they maintain, but here it is worth remembering that Death is not only more powerful than any MCU superhero but also a heartbreaker. Without going any further, that desire to Thanos to get the Infinity Stones and wipe out half of humanity was to court her in the comics, although the movies modified it.
All the famous witches from ‘Agatha, who else?’
The seventh episode of Agatha, who else? It has also served as a tribute to some of the most important witches in fiction (and if they are from disney, better) for the outfit with which the Path of the Witches transforms the protagonists for this week’s test. Each of them takes on the appearance of a very recognizable witch from film history.
So, conveniently, Lilia (Patti LuPone) appears as Glinda, the Good Witch of the South of The Wizard of Oz, while Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) is the iconic Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West from the same novel L. Frank Baum. Have you seen them in the movies performed by Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton in the 1939 classic, and before the end of the year you will be able to learn more about its history thanks to the musical film Wicked, embodied by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo respectively.
The other two transformations refer directly to Disney animation classics. Jen (Sasheer Zamata) transforms into the old witch of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), that is, the disguise that the Evil Queen uses to give the poisoned apple to Snow White; If you look closely, you’ll see that Jen doesn’t even lack fruit.
Finally, Joe Locke becomes Maleficent, the witch of sleeping beauty (1959), horns included. In recent years, Angelina Jolie has renewed the popularity of the character with its flesh and blood version in Maleficent (2014) and its sequel Maleficent: Mistress of evil (2019).
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