Loki
Loki
After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.
DarlingInThePlexx reviewedJune 10, 2025
When Marvel first announced they were doing TV shows, I was… skeptical. Like, “You’re gonna shrink down these billion-dollar characters and stretch them into six episodes on a TV budget?” Please.
And then Loki said: “Hold my sacred timeline.” 🌀👑✨
This show doesn’t just surprise you—it evolves you. The production design alone deserves its own multiversal branch: the retro-futurist TVA aesthetic with its brutalist architecture, muted palettes, mesmerizing symmetry, and analog weirdness? Chef’s kiss. Visually, thematically, emotionally—it’s operating on another level.
What starts off as chaotic trickster shenanigans turns into a story about identity, legacy, regret, grief, and finding purpose beyond the roles others write for you. This is not just “Loki being Loki.” It’s Loki confronting himself, literally and metaphorically.
Tom Hiddleston finally gets the arc he deserved. Not a side villain. Not comic relief. Not just Thor’s hot mess brother. But a myth made human. Watching his growth across two seasons is like watching someone crawl out of their own mythology and into selfhood—and it’s stunning.
There’s heartbreak. There’s cosmic nonsense. There’s Alligator Loki. And there’s a finale so hauntingly beautiful and earned, it sits next to WandaVision in my “Marvel shows that punched me in the soul” collection.
And listen—Sylvie? Mobius? Miss Minutes? OB??? The cast chemistry is a gift. The acting? So, so good.
If you wrote Loki off as “just a fan favorite,” this show will make you rethink everything.
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Tags: 🌀 Identity Crisis Energy, 👑 Character Redemption Arc, 🎨 Set Design Porn, 😭 Existential Feels, 💔 Marvel Tier 1, 🧍♂️ One God, Infinite Sadness