Loki Series Review
This review will contain spoilers.
When the first trailer came out in January, we had our expectations. With the inclusion of the very recognisable D.B. Cooper incident and President Loki, we thought the plot was going to be Loki using the Tesseract to mess around in time and maybe be the cause of many of our favourite conspiracies. This would be the reason why the TVA were after him.
Due to these expectations, the show was not what we expected.
This series didn’t feel quite as fluid as the other two shows, to us there felt like four parts to the series. Part one, episodes one and two focused on Loki and the TVA. Episodes three and four were Loki and Sylvie. Episode five focused on the other Lokis and there’s no way to categorise episode six.
Starting with episodes one and two: ultimately these two episodes felt safe. There was nothing too confusing about the plot here and it very much focused on Loki’s emotional development. Tom Hiddleston portrayed Loki learning about his unlived future was phenomenal acting. Owen Wilson’s Mobius beautifully complemented Loki and the relationship that was built felt significant.
Episodes three and four introduced Sylvie. With Sylvie we saw another side to Loki and there were some beautiful sibling-esque moments. The costume and set designers made the episodes pleasant to watch. We loved the colours of Lamentis, especially as the planet used the colours of the bisexual flag which foreshadowed the reveal of both Loki variants being bi. Our biggest problem (and we’ve seen many people online not liking this decision either) was the decision to force a romantic relationship between Loki and Sylvie. It also didn’t feel like a consistent decision, there were moments that the writers had perfected the sibling rapport and then they would throw a romantic moment in and it made it all feel a bit icky.
Episode five was our favourite episode. It was wacky and a little bizarre and introduced a load of different Loki variants. We had a good laugh at Richard E. Grant in the comic-style costume and Alligator Loki. This episode felt a bit disconnected from the episodes we’d already seen, but made perfect sense for the bizarre show Loki is. Having Loki realise that a fundamental part of his personality was surviving gave him a new lease of life after feeling quite defeated and overwhelmed. Finishing the episode with Loki watching Grant’s Loki create an enormous illusion and realising he too was powerful made us super excited for the final episode.
Where to start with the final episode? Both of us chose not to watch any easter egg videos or search out any theories, so we went into this last episode completely blind and were so very confused for a large portion of it. He Who Remained was a bizarre character that felt more suited to be as a version of the Master from Doctor Who rather than a marvel villain. Jonathan Majors made the character very impactful, but it wasn’t the big baddie we expected. We finished the episode a bit mindblown and extremely unsure of how the series is going to fit with the future of the MCU and where Loki is going to go in season two.
We are excited to see season two and Loki is easily our favourite Marvel character and we’ve loved seeing him develop from the Loki who had just lost to the Avengers in 2012. We can’t wait to see what comes next!
C🌙 & M🌸
