Loki has been arrested for the crime of attempting to depart from the approved version of historical events, but he’s given the chance to prove himself (and continue existing) when a TVA official played by Owen Wilson recruits Loki to help track down a pernicious, dangerous timeline offender who’s evaded the TVA’s grasp. It doesn’t have to tangle with all the major earthbound plot events that tripped up The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, because Loki takes place in a weird story outpost: the Time Variance Authority, an organization of bureaucratic time cops whose job is to maintain a single, integrated universal timeline. Like WandaVision, though, Loki has carved out a little space for itself in an out-of-the-way corner of the Marvel universe. It’s not quite as surprising as those first WandaVision episodes felt - Tom Hiddleston’s there playing Loki, the same character who has become very familiar from a slew of Marvel movies, and much of the show’s narrative language is closer to traditional Marvel mechanics: Infinity Stones, hopping between worlds, fight scenes where a mysterious figure knocks someone out and then strides away in a floor shot that only shows the villain’s boots. I’ve already spoiled the answer, of course: Loki, premiering tomorrow, blessedly occupies more of the WandaVision side of the spectrum. Would it have the playful gestalt of WandaVision? Or would it be more of a bland The Falcon and the Winter Soldier–style slog?
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So Loki has felt like a litmus test for what Marvel TV really wants to be. But WandaVision was followed by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which hit the ground with a dull thwomp sound and then failed to improve on that first impression. The ending was a bummer in about three different directions, but on the whole WandaVision suggested that Marvel might actually have some exciting, imaginative impulses in the TV space.
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WandaVision was an unexpected pleasure, upending assumptions about how playful a Marvel TV series might be willing to get and how far it could stray from the movies’ face-punching status quo.
Hey, whaddya know! Loki is pretty fun, actually! What a nice surprise.Īs the third major Marvel Cinematic Universe television series to be released in this Disney+ streaming era of Marvel TV, Loki is in a bit of a tiebreaker position in a best-of-three game.
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