Marvel Studios’ television show “Loki” has returned with a second season ripe for twists and turns and implications aplenty for the rest of the Marvel Connected Universe moving forward. The Disney+ original first aired back in June 2021 and followed the alternate version of Loki seen in “Avengers: Endgame” as he gets detained by the Time Variance Authority for breaking from his timeline.
In this new season, after Loki’s actions caused the timeline to be shattered and start to form a multiverse, Loki and TVA employee Mobius M. Mobius are attempting to find Sylvie, another variant of Loki, and figure out what is going to be happening now that the timeline has become a multiverse.
While I have somewhat fallen off of the MCU train recently, I still rather like it and am very interested to see where this new season would go. Loki is one of my favorite characters in MCU and this season has potential to cause some big changes to the MCU’s overarching story in a similar way that the previous season did.
The episode opens with a helpful recap of the first season to remind old viewers and bring new viewers up to speed on what has happened. After that, the episode begins with Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, being chased through the TVA by Mobius and TVA Minutemen who don’t recognize him, much to his dismay and confusion. He briefly escapes but then finds himself warped forwards into the future to the present he was just in. He continues to glitch through time as he tries to find Mobius.
Mobius and Hunter B-15 are summoned to meet with a council of TVA judges to explain what is happening with the timeline. They insist that the TVA’s actions have been wrong from the very beginning and they now need to pivot. Loki finally meets up with Mobius and explains to him what he’s seen and the dangers that are coming
Mobius sees Loki glitching through time and takes him to the TVA’s Repairs & Advancement technician Ouroboros, or O.B. Loki’s condition gets diagnosed by O.B. as time-slipping and says that it may be a result of the branching timelines. They set out to fix Loki’s time-slipping at the Temporal Loom.
As Mobius attempts this, Loki encounters Sylvie very briefly in the future he time-slipped into, before he gets pruned by an unseen person. This allows for him to be pulled from the time stream. He and Mobius decide that they need to find Sylvie as councilwoman General Dox sends out many troops to find and capture Sylvie
In the post credits scene, Sylvie is seen entering a branched timeline and ending up in Broxton, Oklahoma in 1982. She visits a McDonald’s and appears to be delighted with her new circumstances.
The premiere was very promising for the rest of the show. This new season of Loki is very intriguing and has me wondering what is going to be happening next. Even though Mobius has seemingly fixed Loki’s time-slipping, the trailers that came out in the days before the premiere seemed to show that Loki is going to be time-slipping regularly throughout the course of the show and that it sure to cause problems for him. Hiddleston is still giving his all to the character and I can’t wait to see what he will do next. I will be sure to check in every week to see what will happen with Loki in the future.
Loki is currently streaming on Disney+ with new episodes airing every Thursday.
