Pros: I like how this season fails for the steaks our casts goes through. Ke Huy Quan was a fun addition to the MCU. Loki had a great act that put over the character in an exciting new way. They explain a lot more about the time-branches and the TVA workers life’s are liked and the effects and scenery are stabbing to look at.
Genre: Action-adventure, Crime thriller, Fantasy, Procedural drama, Science fiction, Superhero
Created by Michael Waldron
Based on Marvel Comics
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Rafael Casal, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr, Neil Ellice, Ke Huy Quan, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tara Strong, Richard Dixon & Jonathan Majors.
Music by Natalie Holt
Executive producers: Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Stephen Broussard, Tom Hiddleston, Michael Waldron, Brad Winderbaum (season 2), Kevin R. Wright (season 2), Justin Benson (season 2), Aaron Moorhead (season 2), Eric Martin (season 2)
Production Location: United Kingdom (season 2)
Cinematography: Isaac Bauman (season 2)
Editors: Paul Zucker, Calum Ross, Emma McCleave
Production companies: Marvel Studios
Network: Disney+
Plot: Loki Season 2 picks up in the aftermath of the shocking season finale when Loki finds himself in a battle for the soul of the Time Variance Authority. Along with Mobius, Hunter B-15, and a team of new and returning characters, Loki navigates an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous Multiverse in search of Sylvie, Judge Renslayer, Miss Minutes, and the truth of what it means to possess free will and glorious purpose.
I was looking forward to this second season of Loki.
Season 2 of Loki was So Good.
Cons: It might need to be we watched again in order to get what’s going on. I wasn’t all that impressed with Brad Wolfe that much and that’s it.
Casts & Characters:
- Tom Hiddleston as Loki:
Thor‘s adopted brother and the god of mischief, based on the Norse mythological deity of the same name. He is an alternate, “time variant” version of Loki who created a new timeline in Avengers: Endgame (2019) beginning in 2012. He is time slipping, being pulled through time between the past, present, and future. Hiddleston said the season sees Loki “understanding himself”, having found this new Time Variance Authority (TVA) family and his “new capacity to make connections”, with the character finally finding a meaning and purpose in trying to help protect the TVA and his friends there. - Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie:
A variant of Loki who broke the timeline through killing He Who Remains in a misguided act of revenge. The season sees Sylvie working as a cashier at a McDonald’s in a branched timeline, in 1982 Broxton, Oklahoma. - Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15:
A high-ranking Hunter of the TVA. Following the branching of the timeline, she is working to reform the TVA and protect the new timelines and variants, given she has learned she is variant herself.- Mosaku also portrays Dr. Verity Willis, a pediatrician from 2012 New York City.
- Eugene Cordero as Casey: A TVA receptionist.
- Cordero also portrays Frank Morris, a famous bank robber and Alcatraz escapee.
- Rafael Casal as Hunter X-5 / Brad Wolfe:
A TVA Hunter with a close connection to General Dox. Casal called Hunter X-5 “Loki’s mirror—another person who feels wronged. He’s a bit of a lost character and almost feels like an earlier version of Loki, reflecting back to him.” Director Dan DeLeeuw called X-5 “more of a straight villain, more of a heavy; a foil for Loki”. Executive producer Kevin Wright spoke to X-5’s relationship to Dox, noting it had a “maternal” quality, but questioned how much of that was because of their past lives, or “institutionalized from being in the TVA”. X-5 finds his real life on the Sacred Timeline and becomes the actor Brad Wolfe. DeLeeuw thought Casal “brought an interesting humanity” to his portrayal of Wolfe, explaining that it was his choice to become Wolfe to break free from the TVA being X-5’s reality. As well, the creative team “couldn’t resist” having a character who no longer believed in the reality of the TVA becoming an actor, given Wolfe now “puts on a perception of reality for a living”. - Kate Dickie as General Dox: A TVA general who is part of the new TVA council of judges following Renslayer’s disappearance. She is searching for Sylvie and still believes in the TVA’s mission to prune branched timelines.
- Liz Carr as Judge Gamble: A paraplegic TVA judge who is part of the TVA council.
- Neil Ellice as Hunter D-90: A TVA Hunter.
- Ke Huy Quan as Ouroboros:
A TVA technician who works in its Repairs and Advancement Department. Described as the “quirky repair guy”, Wright explained that every piece of technology at the TVA was either designed by Ouroboros or he knows how to fix it and keep it operational. Quan felt Ouroboros was thrilled to be doing his job, despite working long hours alone in isolation. Introducing the character in the season was meant to highlight other parts of the TVA not seen in the first season to show how “massive” the organization was.- Quan also portrays A.D. Doug, theoretical physics teacher at Caltech and failed science fiction author from 1994 Pasadena, California.
- Owen Wilson as Mobius M. Mobius: An agent of the TVA and friend of Loki. Wilson said that the season explores more of Mobius’ past and sees him struggling to accept a new reality, with the character losing some of his control and becoming more vulnerable.
- Wilson also portrays Don, a jet ski salesman and single father from 2022 Cleveland, Ohio.
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer: A former TVA judge who has gone missing and has connections to He Who Remains.
- Tara Strong as Miss Minutes: The animated anthropomorphic AI clock mascot of the TVA created by He Who Remains who is in love with him and jealous of Renslayer. Natasha Arancini acts as the on-set stand-in for Miss Minutes.
- Richard Dixon as Robber Baron: An industrialist who purchases a faulty invention from Victor Timely at the 1893 Chicago’s World’s Fair.
- Jonathan Majors as Victor Timely and He Who Remains: Variants of Kang the Conqueror.
- Victor Timely is an industrialist and inventor in 1893 on a branched timeline who has created an early version of the Temporal Loom. He has a stutter and an awkward, timid personality, and acts as a con man selling others his creations. Discussing the contrasting personality of Timely to other Kang variants, Wright said it was “fun” to have Timely be “sort of an eccentric, quiet inventor that maybe is, like, a bit out of time and out of place” rather than the expectation of the next Kang variant to appear in the MCU to be “some sci-fi villain from the future”. Marvel Studios was excited to continue exploring Kang and his variants in the season, particularly wanting Timely for Loki, with Wright noting his inclusion and integration would be “a big part” of the season. Nasri Thompson portrays a young Timely.
- He Who Remains is a scientist from the 31st century who ended the first multiversal war by destroying “evil variants” of himself and created the TVA to prevent a new multiverse from forming and to keep his variants from coming back into existence.
I highly recommend watching season one before seeing this one all on Disney+.
Rating: 10 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
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