After Marvel’s recent slate of so-so projects, Loki season 2 feels like the studio trying to get its cinematic universe back on track.
a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.brought a delightful new energy to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe that made it seem like the franchise could still be quite intriguing without many of the original Avengers. By blowinghelped usher Marvel into a new era of promising narrative risk-taking. But the show’s season 1 finale also left it in the tricky position of being both an.
All of existence being imperiled due to a mess of the enchanting Sylvie’s making is yet another thing that makes’s second season feel familiar, especially once it’s become clear that she’s on the run hiding again. But rather than unraveling into another reality-hopping game of cat and mouse, there’s less emphasis on outright mystery this time around and more on examining previously established things from fresher perspectives like those of TVA Hunter B-15 and receptionist Casey .
After multiple movies and shows about people screwing around with the multiverse only for things to pretty much go back to normal, it’s a little hard to feel especially invested in this season’s core plotline about the now-malfunctioning TVA HQ being on the brink of a meltdown like a cosmic nuclear reactor.
Between Timely’s being a rather important piece of how the story unfolds but not showing up until halfway through this season, it’s difficult to tell whether the allegations of domestic violence looming over Majors ultimately impacted his screen time or the shape of his arc.
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