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Oct 5, 2023 · Oct 5, 2023 12:00pm PT. ‘Loki’ Puts Plot Over People in a Less Focused Season 2: TV Review. By Alison Herman. Courtesy of Disney+. Time travel is impossible in real life, but it’s also...
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This review contains full spoilers for all episodes of Loki season 2, now available on Disney+.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, closure is rarer than an Infinity Stone and just as powerful if used correctly. From Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man to Chris Evans' Captain America, we have seen graceful ways to bow out of a beloved role, and we have seen rough ones. (Our condolences to Scarlett Johansson.) Initially facing an undignified end in Avengers: Infinity War, Tom Hiddleston's Loki was instead granted a cosmic mulligan to find his purpose in surprising and chaotic ways over in a new Disney+ series. There's no question that the season 2 finale of Loki brought to a close one of the most poetic and dramatically satisfying character arcs in the MCU – but does a strong finish for the God of Stories negate the meandering five episodes that preceded it? Is Loki season 2 a great season of television, or is it a batch of half-baked streaming fodder topped off with a god-tier MCU moment? Can it be both?
In the bigger picture, probably not. The creative contrasts between seasons 1 and 2 are too glaring to pretend this series has always been some richly textured tapestry of story and character. Loki has endured seismic shifts in direction over its 12-episode life, swapping Kate Herron's colorful goofs for the moodier energy of Synchronic's Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Rick and Morty veteran Eric Martin rose to head writer and guided Loki and the Time Variance Authority through more streamlined fetch quests and occasionally intriguing character moments that ultimately unspooled like so much cosmic spaghetti. (Ravonna Renslayer, we hardly knew ye.) All involved were charged with steering this massive series alongside the changing currents of Marvel's multiversal plans and were tasked with positioning Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) as the franchise's next big cosmic threat. They succeeded in one of these endeavors, at least.
Yes! I’m not through with Loki or the TVA!
Yes. But as a TVA spin-off with B-15, O.B., and Miss Minutes.
Yes. But as a movie. Loki lives!
No. Bringing Loki back would only dilute his perfect ending.
No. The TVA’s story has gone as far as it should.
No! While we’re at it, no more Kang, either!
The "Brad Wolfe" variant subplot has legs, and says much about how He Who Remains stifled the TVA's humanity as his people-pruning puppets. It bolsters B-15's changing views about the timeline and even triggers a minor insurrection within the TVA ranks that ultimately gets swept away midseason to make room for Loki's paradigm-shifting ascent in the final two episodes. It's hard not to imagine what this plotline would have done for, say, Mobius, B-15, Casey, or any of the characters who stand with Loki during the finale instead of throwing in another character who dies (in admittedly creative fashion) midway through. While its scope rightfully narrows to the TVA – giving viewers ample opportunities to enjoy its vividly retro sci-fi aesthetics – the character moments in Loki season 2 remained as superficially disposable as those in season 1. When Ouroboros shrugs off his variant existence in the penultimate episode "Science/Fiction," there's no choice but to shrug with him.
The finale is great because it finally cashes in on the premise of the series, the prospects of which have always felt richer than the show that attempted to implement it. Loki gets a second crack at life, but what does a God of Mischief do once he gets an eyeful of his violent end? What would any of us do? The episode "Science/Fiction" pulls the focus back on Loki himself, who ponders the things he wants now that his megalomaniacal days are behind him. He and Sylvie wax philosophical about their place in the multiverse and how it's okay to be selfish in matters of the heart. "I want my friends back!" Loki confesses. (An aside: While it's nice that Di Martino came back, what does Sylvie want – aside from a steady paycheck from McDonald's, in an abrasive bit of product placement – and where does she go from here? Sylvie shrugs, too.) "I don't want to be alone," Loki also says. It’s one of the season’s best twists of the knife, considering where he winds up during the finale’s last half-hour.
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While Loki’s season 2 finale gives Tom Hiddleston's God of Stories an emotional send-off, the episodes leading up to it showcase the lackluster side of both Loki and the current MCU. The recent creative shift rightly focuses on the ensemble, but character roles are handed out with a careless toss. What remains is a haze of periodically interesting ...
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Oct 5, 2023 · Season 2 of Loki overcomes the uneven patches that inundate the earlier episodes to conclude with a powerful, bittersweet finale. The best thing to come out of the MCU in recent years. Full...
Nov 10, 2023 · Comments. (Image: © Marvel Studios) GamesRadar+ Verdict. A transcendent meditation on self-sacrifice, Loki’s season 2 finale is indisputably one of the most moving and thought-provoking...
