Loki
Loki - Season 1 (2021)
Showran by Michael Waldron
Starring Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Story: Loki follows the titled character after we see him pick up the Tesseract in Endgame.
WARNING: This review contains spoilers for Loki - Season 1.
The Bad: Some of the acting was stiff from some of the minor characters like Hunter B-15. I'm not expecting an Oscar worthy performance from an actor who's character gets max five minutes of screen time but I really don't want to be cringing at the performance either. If you look at Loki from Thor and The Avengers, you'll notice that he acts completely different from the Loki we see now in Thor: The Dark World - Avengers: Infinity War. We follow a Loki who just lost in the Battle of New York, AKA the Loki from Thor and The Avengers, yet he acts like the Loki we know now. This may be minor to some but think about it. Loki has had a lot of character development that strands across five movies but the Loki we follow in the series hasn't earned that development yet so why is he acting like the Loki we see in the newer movies? It didn't ruin my experience but its still lazy writing in my book.
The Good: I honestly haven't been excited for the MCU since Infinity War but Loki has gotten me excited to see what's going to happen next in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The ending was so perfect and left me with so many questions, seriously couldn't think of a better way to end the season. Plus the production value is insane, it feels like a movie in the MCU. Owen Wilson did such a fantastic job as Mobius and is easily my favorite character in the show (on a side note because I predicted The Bad Batch I'm going to say that a Mobius series in the style of Doctor Who would be sick) Tom Hiddleston is ascharming as ever and I really enjoyed him here. I also really liked Sophia Di Martino as Lady Loki/Sylvia, I thought she added a lot to the show and balanced our Loki which I thought was a neat dynamic. Also episode 5 with all of the other Loki Variants was such a good episode and Classic Loki was such a fun addition. And finally I want to mention the amazing score, Marvel isn't known for its music but here its one of the defining features of the series. The synthetics brings such a mysterious vibe to everything and I loved it.