Warning: stream of consciousness ahead.

—“Agatha All Along” was a total misdirect. Yes, Agatha was always trying to deceive and manipulate Wanda from the start of the first episode, but the song made people think Agatha might be controlling the events in Westview. Clearly, Wanda was controlling those events all along. Agatha makes clear (at least pre-episode 9) that she is currently nowhere near powerful enough to use the kind of magic Wanda uses to control an entire town and its residents.

—White Vision is essentially government-controlled Ultron, it looks like.

—The sitcoms appear to be a coping mechanism connecting back to happier times in her past. But the commercials appear to be expressions of Wanda’s trauma (Strucker watches, the light on the toaster mimicking the Stark bomb, Lagos paper towels referring to the events in Lagos in CA: Civil War, etc.).

—The cut in the security camera footage of the experiments being performed on Wanda was very similar to the cuts and rewinds Wanda appears to control in earlier episodes (for example, in the second episode we see Wanda hears Jimmy Woo over the radio, but Darcy doesn’t see that in the signal, which Wanda appears to have censored; also rewinding the beekeeper and the cut/redo in episode 3 when Vision says that something is wrong). I don’t really understand what it’s ultimately pointing to, though.

—If Wanda’s version of Vision can’t leave the hex because he’s part of her artificial reality, it would seem the kids might not be able to either. I’m interested to see what happens to them.

—Still need to resolve what that book in Agatha’s basement is. Also need to resolve what happened to Fietro and Monica from last week’s end credits scene.

—There’s a lot about the nature of the hex that’s still unresolved. I can accept the idea of anyone who crosses the boundary being changed by the magic of the hex, but why is it putting out a TV signal? Sure, Wanda watched old sitcoms growing up, but those were on DVD. Nothing really explains why there would be a TV signal.

—Early in the series, I got to a theory that Vision was the only “real” being in the hex, and that the townspeople were all creations of Wanda (for example, Vision’s comment in episode 5 (I think) where he notes that there are never any children struck me as a comment that Wanda had failed to make her reality “real enough”). Clearly I was 180 degrees wrong with that theory.

—I’m still unconvinced that Agatha is 100% a villain. She seems to be a sort of gray figure that wants Wanda’s knowledge and used an extreme tactic to try to access it, but her statement at the end of episode 8 that Wanda is incredibly dangerous seems to suggest that there’s more to what she’s doing than just hunger for power. She apparently sees Wanda as threatening, although to whom isn’t clear. She could still end up being a 100% villain; her efforts to keep Monica away from Wanda suggest she was trying to silo Wanda off from others for some reason.

—The heart in Wanda’s deed seems to tie back to the heart on the calendar in the first episode in some way.

—There’s something up with that rabbit.

Great episode all around.