Having escapedlast workweek ’s baneful beach business firm , our instalment — the fourth entry inAgatha All Along , title “ If I Ca n’t Teach You / Let My Song hit You”—begins with Agatha and company pausingalong the Witches ’ Roadand studying the blue - tinged corpse ofSharon / Mrs. Hart .
course , this prompts our hero to discuss decease — both Sharon ’s ( confirming she is indeed truly , most sincerely idle following the poison wine fiasco of episode three ) and Alice ’s mother Lorna ’s , previously said to have “ died on the road . ” Not the Witches ’ route , we read , but “ on tour ” in a hotel fire . Though this info comes as a shock to the fellow member of the coven , it was previously express Lorna author the greatest - selling stone exclusive of all time chronicle the very aliveness - or - destruction risky venture they ’ve embarked on , so how this factoid fell into cultural obscurity makes no good sense . According to Alice , her mother told her “ the Road would save up ” her , prompting Jennifer to ask , “ from what ? ” As you may have guessed , today ’s episode will be an Alice - centric one .
As this here and now , Agatha jubilantly wave her coating around , attempt to get the repose of her coven ’s minds off the doom and gloom of their fall companion while displaying the same sense of misunderstood sociopathy as Peter Capaldi ’s Twelfth Doctor . “ What ’s the problem now ? ” she ask the group . “ A fair sex is dead , ” answers Calderu . Exasperated , Agatha replies , “ Yes , and Alice and Teen are kindly digging a grave accent for her , ” before suggesting they “ catch up ” to current events . Dismissing the tardy Mrs. Hart as a “ spoiled draft pick , ” the coven protest they demand a new Green Witch to substitute her , prompting an debate over the lyrics of “ The Ballad of the Witches ’ route ” and whether they call for a full roll to extend forward . As we ’re reminded Alice ’s mother write “ the most democratic interpretation of the lay ” ( ie , 40 million copy sold worldwide , the equivalent of the Eagles ’ greatest hits collection ) , her expertness is hold over to : “ We should n’t go forward . Not without a successor Green Witch . ”
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Enraged , Teen interjects “ people ca n’t be replace , ” suggesting Sharon ’s dying was “ everybody ’s error . We were supposed to attend out for each other , but we did n’t . That was our fateful mistake . ” “ Fatal for Ms. Hart , ” Agatha corrects , and I have to harmonize with her . The chemical group attempt to save her life without any sort of skullduggery or subterfuge ( after the fact , anyway ) so his indignation seems mislaid . Agatha suggests summoning a back up Green Witch , leading to a ritual in which each extremity of the coven makes apersonal petition for their idealistic switch , exchangeable to the “ Perfect Nanny ” turn inMary Poppins . Jennifer hopes she ’s hot , Alice wants her to wreak Advil , and Agatha merely asks she ’s “ not annoying ” or “ super political . ” Thus , the newfangled Green Witch is born from the Earth itself , and by gum , it ’s Aubrey Plaza ’s persona , Rio Vidal !
Though Agatha is displeased by the reveal , the rest of the mathematical group continually hem and haw over how sexy and frightening and cool she is as the road leads them back to theexact same housefrom the previous sequence ( Disney+ keeps raising its subscription fee for what , again ? ) .
Upon come in , the coven is welcome to the redecorated bent — now a ’ 70s - inspire transcription studio apartment — each in their own bespoke rig . Agatha relish her own plunging neckline gown , Calderu pay back Liza Minnelli ’s haircut , Jennifer takes a page from disco diva Amii Stewart ’s wardrobe , Teen calculate like Marc Bolan from T. Rex , Alice wears the same outfit as her rock and roll star mother , and Rio search like a phallus of Marc and the Mambas , or something . reelect to the magpie search escapades of the previous episode , the crew split up up and search for hint . Calderu is spook by stained glass windowpane render various historical hag - killings and Jennifer is unnerved by a wall of Nipponese masks . Amid the hunting , Alice reveals her mother fell on such hard times , she had to trade her catalogue of songs to keep her planetary house . However , this moment is undercut when Teen spots a disk with the attached note , “ play me , ” which imprints a curse on our crew by spinning back . As it happens , Alice ’s generational harm has broadcast to the other witches as a scorching burn mark on their shoulders . The only disciplinary , it ’s reasoned , is to constitute a rock banding and do “ The Ballad of the Witches ’ route . ” I mean , why not , correct ?
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Teen takes up the guitar , Jennifer ’s on bass , Rio plays drums , Calderu finds some zils ( which somehow turn into a pair of maraca between shots ) , and Agatha sings while Alice carry them on piano . The carrying out appeal the ire of the “ execration ” manifest , revealed in physical shape to be a harpy - like ghoul . By simply playing the song , the devil is run off as we name Alice ’s mother wrote the song as a protection spell for her girl , who I suppose was so Gen X she abdicate her rude talents as a performer due to the stigma of being a “ nepo - baby , ” or something . Honestly , it all feels a bit undercooked — a Word of God that springs immediately to mind since this is the “ fire ” tryout , opposite last calendar week ’s “ weewee ” ordeal . Presumably , we can require “ earth ” and “ air ” trap using the same band in the number weeks .
While Mrs. Hart was the casualty of the first trial , it appears Teen rock too firmly and now consist comatose . Waiting for him to retrieve , Jennifer reveals she was formerly a accoucheuse who became despoil of her magic surveil an invitation to the Obstetrics Association of Greater Boston , but does not exposit further . Calderu opine that though they hated each other at first , the coven has since become slap-up friends through the course of the episode — between scenes , presumably . Teen awakens from his spell once the exhibition is finished .
directly upon awakening and apropos of nothing in particular , he asks Agatha if she was the one who shake off the sigil upon him , but due to the nature of the enchantment , she ’d be ineffective to remember whether she did or not . Returning to the group , Agatha and Rio deal scars in an homage toJaws(since sharks are a case of witch , too , when you think about it … always move from one thing to the next … ) . Much like Matt Hooper stating his nerve was bankrupt by Mary Ellen Moffat , Rio suggests her capital scar fall when she “ had to do something ” she “ did n’t need to ” to someone she loved , heavily implying her mysterious treason to Agatha . In an odd final scene , the distich head off into the Sir Henry Joseph Wood to reconcile , but Rio indulge the second by say Agatha “ that son is n’t yours . ”
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So , that was sequence four . I presuppose we can expect another mistily enchantress - inhale trial run next week , too ? I ’m still not sure how to find aboutAgatha All Along . While the cast is dead entertaining and most of the humour lands , the tarradiddle itself feels so unrealized it ’s difficult to get particularly indue . I was actually disappointed the episode did n’t terminate with another fatal accident , which would have at least raised the stakes . Since Jennifer and Alice have already had their show window episodes , I hope the series find more interesting things to with them besides being two separate shades of snarky . candidly , Alice burn it immediately after finally coming to terms with her mother ’s end in a hotel fire 40 years ago would ’ve at least had that “ oh , shit ! ” quality that madeLostso exciting before we realized it was n’t heading anywhere particular . We ’ll just have to wait and see where this nine - episode bound serial terminate up . Four down , five to go .
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