“Agatha All Along” continues with its fourth installment, returning us to our coven in mourning (or atleast most of them). Having been left wondering how these witches would handle the loss of a seemingly necessary member of a “complete” coven, “If I Can’t Reach You / Let My Song Teach You” continues on down the “Witches Road” and further into the bewitchingly mysterious past of these characters. 

With the previous mention of needing a full coven of witches with each role fulfilled, our group was left with the vacancy of a “green witch”. With the lack of remorseful feeling we come to expect from Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), she bluntly suggests summoning a replacement witch. Reluctantly everyone agrees and with a witchy ritual, they summon a witch. To everyone’s surprise, it works, and out of the freshly made grave of their fallen ally rises Rio (Aubrey Plaza), Agatha’s mysterious old witchy and aggressive acquaintance from episode 1. The group hesitantly continues down the road with their new coven member. 

The group stumbles upon another house bearing an indication of the ritual of fire and upon entering are again costume-changed, this time to a very 70’s fashion. Exploration of the house reveals a recording studio and instruments, as well as various personalized music-themed references for our coven. After some mysterious invisible attacks on multiple witches, they conclude that Alice (Ali Ahn), though believing it was never real, has brought a very real generational curse with her and it is now the trial. 

Having the realization that the curse is real, the coven concludes that Alice’s late mother, a very famous musical artist, had released music as a protection spell in the hopes of saving her daughter, and now the only way to truly get rid of it is to face it head-on. This leads the coven to take up instruments to play the very song that got them here. After a tense ballad, the curse is banished and the trial complete, but not without problem as the “Teen” (Joe Locke) has been injured with a large glass shard from being previously thrown through a window by the curse. 

Back on the road, the coven helps the “Teen” in another bonding moment as Jen (Sasheer Zamata) is able to instruct the witches on ingredients again to make a healing potion, which the group observantly points out is a clear indication of gaining more power. While the “Teen” rests and Agatha watches over him, the other witches exchange stories over a campfire, bonding them even more. The “Teen” eventually wakes, and after a tense discussion about his mysterious “sigil” preventing his identity from being revealed, Agatha returns to the other witches as they are in the middle of exchanging scar stories. Rio chimes in about a scar being someone she loved in the past, heavily implying it is Agatha. After the two break off and share an intense near kiss, the episode ends. 

Episode four finally seems to give us some conclusions, just of course not about our main story. With the trial of fire, we see what seems to be a true conclusion to at least the past problems of Alice, whereas the previous trial only really raised more questions for the corresponding witch, Jen. For all of our other bigger mysteries, we again get just little bits more but no real concrete answers, successfully pulling us along with the rest of the series. 

The musical theme of the show returns here in spectacular fashion. What started as unrecognizable humming in episode 1, developed into a magical acapella chant to open the door to the “Witches Road” in episode 2, is now a grand full band performance.

This episode also sees the return of Rio, throwing more tension into the mix for Agatha. We were given a more joking glimpse of their relationship in episode one as it was through the lens of the detective show curse Agatha was trapped in and then also in the middle of Rio trying to kill Agatha. Now that they are seemingly being forced to be allies, we are given more tense one-on-one interactions, revealing they clearly must have had a past romantic relationship. With Rio’s mysterious reveal of a past loved one being her personal scar, we are now left with implications that only drive us to want to know more. 

With so much still to be revealed, “Agatha All Along” continues to be an intriguing and fun series. I count myself still under its spell as I wait for more. I’d give it 5 concert posters out of 7.

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