So what’s the deal with Teen (Joe Locke)? In “Agatha All Along” Episode 6, we learn exactly who and what he is.
Spoilers for Episode 5.
He’s Billy Maximoff, Wanda’s son who disappeared when her Westview spell came to an end. It turns out, William Kaplan — Teen — died in a crash near the spell and Billy was able to take over his empty vessel. But he doesn’t know where his brother, Tommy, is, so he now has a driving purpose for completing the Witch’s Road.
This episode mirrors the breaks between sitcom episodes in “WandaVision,” in which Monica Rambeau and S.W.O.R.D. showed us what was going on outside Westview — giving us a peak behind the curtain. Not very inconspicuously, Teen also happens to meet many members of Agatha’s second ill-fated coven.
It appears that Teen killed the rest of them, with Agatha being the sole survivor of his attack last episode. Agatha tries to console him, but he rejects her, even though he can’t control his power.
I didn’t expect the show to dump its ensemble cast quite yet, and I suspect some of them might be revived by the time this miniseries ends. It would make sense for showrunner Jac Shaeffer, who also was in the captain’s seat of “WandaVision,” given that she’s invested so much in those characters — and they are likable.
But part of me hopes that instead of Agatha being redeemed, she grows her notoriety as a villain. After all, with Jonathan Majors’ Kang out of the way and Robert Downey Jr.’s Dr. Doom still a ways off, the MCU could use some antagonists with bite, especially because it’s managed to burn through so man of them.
So far, I dig Teen’s reveal as Billy, but he needs to find more consistency as character than his mother. I thought “WandaVision” was brilliant, if at times ham-fisted, but I thought Sam Raimi’s vision for her in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” — were she apparently met her end (it’s hard to ever know for sure with these films) — was wrong and inappropriate, at times undermining “WandaVision.”
This episode also features a certain cameo character played by Evan Peters from “WandaVision,” which serves as a fun callback but also further exposes the show’s tonal inconsistencies.
“Agatha All Along” Episode 6 gets a 7.5/10
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