Loki was fun. An overlong explainer for the future projects of MCU. I did like the more personal style Marvel adopted for its series but, something always feels out of place. The realism Loki tries to bring into the ultra formalist franchise never seems to fully realize itself. At least that's what makes me feel moving in and out of the story very frequently which kind of dampens the fun. Still, a decent show that is not at all boring to watch.
Season Review
Well, I just finished Season 1 of Marvel's "Loki," and it's good!
Guess what? This show scared my MCU fatigue away! So I won't be grumpy like I was in my "WandaVision" and "Falcon and Winty" reviews, but I'm going to be positive!
"Loki" began with a solid start, giving the titular character a little character arc as he looks inward at his "glorious purpose". When you realise you have no free will and that your life goals are worthless, why not make your life meaningful? It was a lot of exposition, maybe more than some would've liked, but I loved it, and I had a good feeling from here on out!
The next episode rolled around, and the action kicked off! We meet (who we first thought was going to be) the villain (Sylvie), and Loki gets to go into the field. After that, Loki has a little heart-to-heart with her, and they slowly let their guards down. My faith wavered after the last scene, but thankfully, it never faltered afterwards.
After that, the two challenge the bureaucracy, and the TVA banishes Loki to meet Richard E. Grant (who stole the show for a moment?)! Then we met Alligator Loki (oh my goodness :O), President Loki, kid Loki and another who conquered Asgard.
Soon after, we get a villain who isn't terrible or one-dimensionally evil! He's good fun! We get a bunch of exposition (which is a bit tiring) and a twist that makes the season finale somewhat unsatisfying, but still works for me.
Tom Hiddleston is a treat. Although he's nothing like "The Avengers" Loki, he still plays the character with cunning charm. Owen Wilson steals the show for me, and his dynamic with Hiddleston is such a treat. Despite my apprehension, Sophia Di Martino left her mark her, too.
Overall, "Loki" works for me; it's a fun time and doesn't have any of WandaVision and Falcon and Winty's issues. It's my favourite out of the three MCU series we've gotten so far, and I can't wait for Season 2!
SCORE: 7/10
With it's stellar visuals and fantastic production design, Loki is a threat from a technical perspective and one of the MCU's most inventive projects. The 60s inspired tech gives a unique aesthetic, and the yellows and purples just leap off the screen, all accompanied by an all timer superhero score by Natalie Holt. But in spite of all of that, Loki also is a fantastic character piece, continuing the recent trend of MCU series that are fully character and theme based. Exploring Loki's complex psychology through the lens of identity, free will, and variancy, there is a delight in learning more about the universe through his unique eyes.
Tom Hiddleston shines as per usual, but it's honestly his co-stars which help sell this. Gugu Mbatha-Raw is deliciously sneaky, Sophia Di Martino is tons of fun and bouncy, and Richard E. Grant and particularly Jonathan Majors steal the show here. And with the second season on the horizon, I can't wait to see how it all plays out.
Loki cries in every episode. The most emotionally invested I've been in Marvel maybe ever. I'd give it a 10/10 but it felt a bit rushed across just six episodes.
Yawn
Anyone who rated this 8+ should have their rating privileges revoked. I've long been of the opinion that user reviews are a better indicator of whether a show or film will be worth my time than critics reviews, but after this, I'm starting to think I should pay more attention to the critics.
Ultimately a 6.5/10, rounded up to a very generous 7/10. Most Marvel media comes off as generic AI generated rubbish with a huge budget. At least they typed a somewhat unique prompt into ChatGPT for this one.
Terrible, zero creativity, poor world building and rushed storytelling. Good finale
Meh. Great climax. 2 good jokes nothing new. Poor adventure and weak shenanigans. Just meh
It's my fault, because I keep hurting myself with these shows already knowing that they are going to suck. This time the writers barely got enough material for a mediocre Marvel movie but decided to go for a six-episode series instead - and it's only part one. The set-up hinted at infinite possibilities, too bad that all we get are characters walking in circles for more cringe-worthy quips and drowsy info-dumps about multiverse rules which, by the way, keep changing with each new movie or TV series.
Solid effort for a first season but it felt that they knew all along that they will have 2 seasons so they kind of left us with more questions than answers after each episode => very frustating ....
I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of this series - from existential and philosophical musings of its comic book characters, to the mind-numbing bureaucratic fascism of the Time Variance Authority - this was an utterly charming, delightful, and playful series that still allowed itself to delve into weightier issues of choice, free will, and destiny. The performances are fantastic, and the main cast all have terrific chemistry together. It’s a really meaty and heartbreaking arc for Loki, and the supporting cast all get to do more interesting work than I would have first expected. And I was honestly impressed that the season was about to wrap things up in such a way that met the needs of the genre conventions (world building, setting up sequels/new entries in the Marvel universe) while still grounding the final conflict in the characters and their journeys. Hands down my favorite of the Disney+ MCU shows so far.
A series that almost only serves to set up more movies. You just can't get anything meaningful out of it, if you are thinking this is the place for that. If you wanna, scratch your head (not in a good way) and just consume while eating, then... well, you can obviously do better.
its good that they mentioned Loki will return in Season 2, because they did not finish the everything in season 1 itself.
Terrible! I was enjoying the show until the season 1 finale. I don't get why so many people are liking this... don't you people get it why the "multiverse" is a terrible ideia? just look at the comics and the various "reset the universe" sagas. let me explain: now, marvel can do whatever it want without any consequence:
- let's brutally kill spider man!
- nooo, we lose one of the best heroes and the screenwriters have to be creative to continue the history...
- don't worry, we kill him, people are gonna invets their emotions and give us ticket money, and them.... we tell that the spider man that was killed was from another time line and we can milk another spidet man for money... and another... and another...
If this multiverse was a good thing, marvel and dc wouldn't need to create stories to erase all the multiverses and start over. Multiverse = No consequences + confusion
get it? marvel can now create histories that IF the audience doesn't like it, it is just a matter of "oh well... this happened on a multiverse that has no connection with the canonical universe" and all your investments (emotional and financial) are worthless if marvel decides.
Now, if they want, even the events on every other movie (the blip, iron man's death, the scrifice of black widow...) can be escuse as "other universe" and this is cheating!
BUT... hopefully... Dr. Strange 2 can fix this, so this multiverse BULLSHIT can be erased without any bad repercussions
Alligator Loki and Throg, two legends
MY THOUGHTS ON SEASON ONE:
-WARNING: Spoilers Below-
First things first, this is by far my favourite Marvel show show so far. Everything about it was perfect, the casting was spot on, the pacing of the show was perfection and the plot was very, very interesting. I have loved each and every MCU Marvel show so far with all of them being either a 9/10 or a 10/10 but this... This was the icing on the cake and to know it's returning for a second season is even better!
I really enjoyed Sophia Di Martino's Sylvie (Loki). She is up there in my all-time favourite Marvel characters and we have only known her for a few hours! The impact she singlehandedly had on this show was magnificent. The chemistry between herself and Tom Hiddleston was beautiful to watch, every scene where it was just them two together was guaranteed to be great.
A great part in the show was the scene where Loki gets pruned and wakes up surrounded by all of the different Loki's, seeing him surrounded by different versions of himself was hilarious. Learning all of their stories was also beautiful, my favourite Loki was by far Classic Loki. Richard E. Grant was phenomenal as him, his final scene where he created a City of illusions and unfortunately died was one of the saddest scenes in the show, I really liked his character and seeing him die was horrible. Child Loki will definitely return in a later stage of the MCU (more than likely Young Avengers) so seeing him come back will be fun to watch, Jack Veal definitely has the acting capabilities to be in a full scale MCU movie. I'd also like to see him return with Alligator Loki.
If there's an Alligator Loki does that mean there's a Crocodile Thor?
When it comes to meeting Kang I was quite pleased with his character, they made it fairly obvious that he isn't going to be the Knag we meet in future movies. I can't wait to see just how terrifying and menacing he will be when it's Kang the Conqueror travelling through the Multiverse and not "He Who Remains". I've seen a good theory about how the Kang we met is just another Loki variant but as good as the twist would be I'm not entirely sure if it would work out well. I'm very excited to see Loki and Sylvie's potential encounters against future Kang's in the next season.
A big theory that's been spinning around in my head since watching it was when "He Who Remains" was speaking to both Loki and Sylvie. Whilst mid conversation his entire aura and personality just completely changes and he says "We have crossed the threshold" and at that EXACT moment is when Wanda defeats Agatha and becomes The Scarlet Witch. I'm wondering if the two are connected and Wanda becoming the Scarlet Witch is a massive Nexus event? It's really irritating me because we won't find out for certain until either the Spiderman movie, Doctor Strange movie or Season 2 of Loki.
Overall I honestly loved this season a LOT. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us with season 2 but if it's anything like season 1 was I just know it'll be perfection - especially if Sylvie is involved.
I have to admit that I was seriously underwhelmed by this series.
I love Loki, and I absolutely adored episode 2... but the last 2 episodes were too strange for me. I have no knowledge of the comics, perhaps that's why the whole climax of the season felt off... and it especially feels unfinished, even for a show that's already been renewed, it felt as if a last episode is missing or at least another 10 minutes.
Not only the situation with Loki 2012, what universe is he now in? What about the TVA there? But also the way the judge just sort of left, never to be heard from again in this season.
And I actually didn't like the way Sylvie outshone Loki... but without actually learning why she came up on the radar of the TVA, simply because she was born female? Somehow I waited for the other shoe to drop, like she isn't a Loki, she acts as trap for Loki etc... and the kiss felt cringeworthy. And what about Loki's Jotun heritage - that never came up (save for his name), but wouldn't that also be a source for variants (if perhaps he grew up knowing about his origins etc)?
I know Loki's the god of lies, chaos and mischief - but that show, so far, was a bit too chaotic for me. But I kind of hope that this show will somehow find its way to the next Dr Strange movie, the name of the movie would lend itself for that.
Ok fun. Not brilliant, but more or less entertaining throughout. Worked well with the different versions of the Lokis. Not sure about the attraction between Loki and Sylvie - but I guess it is a message that you have to be kind and loving to yourself before you can relate to others with more than mischief and ambition?
Certainly the best Marvel offering from the year so far, just beating out Wandavision.
Had low expectations going in given how long we have had Loki in the MCU, but his adventures in the TVA proved to be very interesting and hooked me in from episode 1. It takes the MCU in a very new direction and I look forward to see what future movies and TV shows will do with the setup the show has provided.
1 & 2 were interesting but kinda dull, 3 & 5 were very, very good, 4 was amazing, 6 was quite good despite the 15 minutes exposition monologue by Jonathan Majors (who makes it tolerable by hamming it up to a hundred... and anyway, they had to do it, since they had decided to hide him for five episodes). Overall, even though Wandavision still has got some of the best ideas and scenes, Loki was the best and most consistent Marvel TV show, with nice characters and interesting storylines. I loved being with those three weirdos, I thought the romance was bizarre and cute and I can't wait to see Majors going wild in season 2. Also, they did what I feared they would do with the ending but it actually worked very well, much more than I expected, because its' first of all a season ending that introduces the villain for season 2, and only on a secondary reading it's also the setup for other MCU stuff. What I feared is that this would only be a setup for the movies, kinda like a longer version of the Thanos stinger in Avengers 1, but no, it's a proper season ending that also works as an MCU stinger. Which is how it should always be. And it made me excited for things to come more than most MCU stingers.
Started out really strong and had me super invested. Seemed really different. Then things just became alright until it eventually ended in a pretty lacklustre way. I enjoyed it, but I was left feeling disappointed in the end.
[Disney+, S1] Perhaps the most fandom MCU series released so far. This is the only way to explain having the audacity to elaborate a climax that consists of a conversation between three characters. The result is an evolution of the main character that leaves insiders as cold as Marvel fans are astonished. Using the multiverse and timelines to explain everything is becoming one of the endemic evils of modern fantasy.
Action: 5/5
Theme: 5/5
Plot/Story/Writing: 5/5
Performances: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Cinematography: 5/5
Special Effects: 5/5
Overall: 5/5
My Favorite Characters/Performance:
Loki
As much as I enjoyed this, it felt like it was trying to do too much within six episodes. Like, they could have done two seasons with several arcs for all the content in the first season.
It's still fun, but don't think too hard about the plot.
I enjoyed the first season of Loki. Some fun ideas are tossed around but for something made for TV, it felt like The Falcon and the Winter Solider as something trying to be a long movie rathe than a series, which is disappointing since TV is a different medium that can do a lot of things film can't. Marvel should let the showrunners oversee the shows, not the directors.
Sophia Di Martino steals the show as Sylvie and Hiddleston as always nails it in the role of Loki. Oh, and there's a great cameo at the end by a now first time Emmy nominee from a better now cancelled TV show. Let's just say, he's gonna be important to these movies moving forward. Oh and Owen Wilson!
Such an effective example of how to elegantly and gracefully up the ante and raise the stakes at every turn. I had no expectations for this season, but color me blown away.
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I adore Classic Loki so much