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During the first decade of Marvel Studios in movies, Loki, the God of Mischief and the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s original big bad guy, was defined by his relationships and rivalries.
He was the never-to-be-trusted adopted brother of the Mighty Thor, always double-crossing the God of Thunder but never losing his love. Loki’s attempt at world domination was what originally united the Avengers in their first of many movie team-ups back in 2012.
The look of his subsequent MCU is a variation of Anti-Hero, always charming and cunning at the same time, while it is a useful fork next to Thor and Avengers.
But what happens when you take it all? There is no sibling rivalry with Thor. No Avengers. Asgard has no homeland, which was destroyed in "Thor: Ragnarok". What's left of Loki?
Well, apparently one Loki has stripped away almost everything that makes it for the very good Disney Plus series.
The third Marvel studio "Loki", which is set to make its service debut in 2021, will start streaming from Wednesday and it will not waste any time waiting for "Vandavision" as the best contender yet.
Despite suffering the most dramatic death in MCU in 2018's "Avengers: Infinite War" - at the hands of the big bad guy to come, Thanos - Loki is still alive. In 2011's "Avengers: Endgame", Anant Stone got his hands on a time-travel error and let lokie, who was caught at the end of 2012's original "Avengers" film, escape.
“Loki” picks things up at that exact moment, which the most-of-the-time villain thinks is an opportunity for his great getaway but is instead his introduction to the TVA (Time Variance Authority), the MCU’s time cops who monitor all of existence. The TVA knows Loki is not where — and not when — he is supposed to be but decides his brain full of tricks could be useful against other variants threatening the sanctity of an original timeline who are a bigger threat to the natural flow of time than he is. Now all of a sudden Loki is the one joining a superteam to fight a bigger bad guy.
The advent of TVA, and its central role in the conspiracy, where "Loki" begins to work its magic in Episode 1, featuring the top cast of MCU's newcomers Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbaba-ka and Wunmi Mosaku under Kate's direction. Dripping script with sarcastic laughter by Heron ("*** Education") and lead author Michael Wal Waldron ("Rick and Morty").
Loki, as Tommy Hiddleston, has been in midseason form since the beginning of the episode (the first of six, published weekly). The character is not impressed by his new world as he looks down on his God-like condition, but the luster of emotion and humanity shows him more layered than he accepts.
As a TV agent Mobius, Wilson uses his white hair, mustache and all that attitude to give Iron Man's father's energy raja (John Slatery version). Despite the MCU rookie on screen, he keeps his eye on Hildleston as they move back and forth to see who can get the last funny, persuasive word without breaking a smile (a superpower for Wilson for most of his career). Mobius knows every move made by the lobby and what he will do, while Loki tries to surprise him nonetheless.
Surprisingly there are agents showing similar disregard for the legend played by Mabtha-ka and Mosaku, who believe in Loki as long as they can throw it away (and sometimes they throw it away). Yoga of Yoga, Hiddleston, Mabtha-Ro and Mosaku all went together to the Royal Academy Draft Dramatic Art in London. Basically everyone you see in front of the camera also assumes that Loki is not to be trusted and that he is plotting the worst situation where he and only he comes to the top.
"Loki" is beautifully composed by British composer Natalie Holt, who provided Marvel's horned mens with a theme song that may be MCU's best. Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either, Looks like BT aint for me either, Looks like BT aint for me either, Looks like BT aint for me either, Looks like BT aint for me either, Looks like BT aint for me either, Looks like BT aint for me either, Looks like BT aint for me either, Looks like BT aint for me either.
The devil is in the details of "Loki", but we promise you that the devil is not Mephisto. Let's not dive into the rabbit hole again with the internet rumors that it will become the great Marvel evil pulling wire ahead of sight and mind. This is a Come Madi and Crime show that has merged together, happening in the most successful superhero universe around. It is a rare MCU air vent in this series.
Loki still has a lot of tricks and the magic of Marvel Studios still remains.
Loki (six episodes) premieres Wednesday on Disney Plus.
New episodes stream weekly.
