Hooray, a Disney+ show that doesn't suck. Not so far anyway. The first episode of Loki season 2 is not only better than the recent Marvel and Star Wars content, it's better than Loki season 1.
Hitting the ground running, the premiere episode starts with the previous finale's multiversal peril cliffhanger and immediately starts piling on time travel and bureaucratic shenanigans.
Owen Wilson proves once again he's a perfect calm foil for this kind of plot and his chemistry with Tom Hiddleston continues to be very charming.
This episode adds Ke Huy Quan to the cast as a maintenance guy at the Time Variance Authority and he rounds out the entertaining trio with an unflappable demeanour of casual urgency.
As in the last season, I dislike how Loki isn't especially Loki-ish. You could really swap him out for any generic guy in this episode, there's nothing about what he's doing that makes him the god of mischief. But from what I've heard about the writing in the rest of this season, there was a deliberate effort to make him more of an anti-hero this time. Hopefully they managed to pull it off.
Loki is available on Disney+.
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