Agatha All Along ep 3: is the teen Agatha's lost son?

We liked episode three of Agatha All Along, "Through Many Miles of Tricks and Trials." I will say I quite like that episode, and the trials themselves are the reason. The Disney+ series (2024), starring Kathryn Hahn and Joe Locke, had felt slow to that point. I feel like the first two episodes could almost have been combined into one, so the coven could have been on the road by the end of the first.

Why Agatha All Along felt fresh going into episode 3

Going in, what appealed to me was the lore and the mystery. I haven't read or deep dived into Agatha's comic book origins, and that was part of the draw. It's refreshing to see a Marvel property I have no familiarity with, and I don't think we've really gotten something like that since Guardians of the Galaxy first came out. There's no Captain America and no Avengers, and Wanda comes up maybe once or twice. The creepy side is another plus for me: when things get weird and creepy, they get really weird and creepy.

The first trial: wine, poison and an antidote

I like the problem solving in the first trial. The coven worked out a riddle whose answer was wine, drank it, and then had to brew an antidote against a poison. I like the hallucinations too, because they let us see a piece of each witch's past. Agatha's vision put her by a baby crib with the book of the damned, another reminder of the rumor, raised earlier in the episode, that she traded her own son for the book.

Is the teenager traveling with the witches Agatha's son?

A line suggesting Agatha wouldn't recognize her own son if he showed up at her doorstep makes me wonder whether the teenager traveling with the witches is that son. I'm keeping the theory open: it could be a red herring, one hint could be true while another is false, or it could be neither. The mention of making a deal with Mephisto also stood out to me, since fans had been loudly calling for Mephisto since WandaVision. I feel there's got to be at least one scene with him.

What could the remaining trials look like?

With six episodes left at that point, I don't know if each trial will take up an episode. Four witches are on the road, not counting Sharon, since she isn't a witch. The trailers also showed Aubrey Plaza's character. Our guess is that she might simply show up at the end, maybe to kill Agatha once Agatha has her powers back. During the episode, I also felt that Agatha might get some empathy by the end and become more of a team player, maybe.

Sharon's death and "Who's Sharon?"

The episode ends with Sharon dead and Agatha asking who Sharon is. I wonder whether that was Agatha's snark or whether she truly never knew the name, having only ever called her Mrs. Hart. Either way, Agatha comes across as coldhearted. My bigger reaction was to the death itself. I can't believe they killed her off so fast. I was surprised, because you can't kill off the one innocent person who had been helping them through their first trial.