(courtesy IMP Awards)
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“It’s almost time.” The second season of Marvel’s series Loki sees the Asgardian villain Loki working with Mobius M. Mobius, Hunter B-15, and other members of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to navigate the multiverse in order to find Sylvie, Ravonna Renslayer, and Miss Minutes. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the other movies. Marvel’s Loki is a series created by Michael Waldron (also of Heels and a writer on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) for Disney. This new season is produced by Marvel Studios, with Eric Martin serving as head writer, along with Katharyn Blair. With episodes directed by acclaimed filmmakers Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead (of Spring, The Endless, Synchronic, Something in the Dirt), plus Dan DeLeeuw and Kasra Farahani. Executive produced by Kevin Feige, Stephen Broussard, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, and Kevin R. Wright, alongside Hiddleston, Benson / Moorhead, Martin, and Waldron. (courtesy First Showing)
For a villain, Loki has found himself doing all kinds of good deeds of late.
In season one of the show bearing his name, Loki had even more nuanced grey added to his character, along with a great many supporting people, all of whom made up a part of the MCU where character of the most thoughtful and weighty kind was king, as I noted in my review.
It is the characterisation in short that makes Loki, which is funny, breathlessly imaginative and searingly, soul-shatteringly confronting and sad, and which ensures that by the time you reach it brilliantly-delivered final act, which is as complex and emotionally simple as the very best storytelling there is, you are completely sole on this faultlessly-built world, its premise and its execution and the fact that people are endlessly, gloriously complicated and that as a result even superhero shows benefit immensely from acknowledging this fact.
Now one of the “good guys” – well, sort of, kind of, let’s not get carried away here – Loki is at it again in the newest doing his best to find out why it is that time may, rather scarily, be running out.
It all looks like a lot of fun, even if war is in the offing, and it’ll be hugely enjoyable to see how, if, it all gets averted when Loki debuts its six-episode second season on 6 October on Disney +