TL;DR – A solid interlude preparing us for the chaos that will be the season/series finale.

Disclosure – I paid for the Disney+ subscription that viewed this show.

Post-Credit Scene – There is an audio cue at the End of the Credits.

Loki Review –

Now Loki likes big ‘what the heck moments’ that dramatically shift everything we know. It didn’t hit as well as it could have in Season One, but I am not sure anyone particularly saw last week coming, where death came from every side. The question is: can they build upon that moment and propel everything forward or languish in possibilities?

So to set the scene, after fighting off the threat from Miss Minutes (Tara Strong), it looked like for a moment that they were actually going to stabilise the Temporal Loom and save the Multiverse. That was until Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors) ran out to fix the problem and was immediately spaghetti-fied. Quite gruesomely, I should add. All Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Morbius (Owen Wilson), Sylvie (Sophia di Martino), Casey (Eugene Cordero), and O.B. (Ke Huy Quan) could do is sit and watch as the Time Loom collapsed under all the different timelines and the TVA was destroyed from within. Which makes it all the more peculiar when Loki opens his eyes to find himself still in the now empty TVA and time slipping all over the place. We will be looking at the episode as a whole from here, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead. 

Well, this was an exciting episode in how much happened and how little actually happened. This episode had a twin thrust, first to get all the gang back together, and then to help Loki get his groove back. Part of this led to us romping around the Multiverse, finding all the friends where they should be in their timelines. I do have to thank MythBusters for helping me immediately spot that Casey was one of the people who famously escaped from Alcatraz moments after we appeared there. This was a fun romp as we jump from moment to moment, and the cast get to play against type for a bit.

At the heart of the episode was the relationship between Loki and O.B. This show desperately needed the earnest enthusiasm of Ke Huy Quan, who can take any complicated concept and bring it to life. I loved the intersection of Science and Fiction and how that played into the episode’s heart. This situation also allows Tom Hiddleston to dive into some wonderful physical comedy that he throws his whole body into. All of this happened with the threat of spaghetti-fication looming at every turn. Which was a visual motif that I feel got overused this week.

However, while there were a lot of fun moments this week, the main thrust of the episode was that Loki had to realise that he cared about the people in the TVA, which I am not sure should have been a big reveal given where his character is at this point in the season. Also, while it was fun to jump into everyone’s real lives, we don’t spend enough time with most of them to be able to connect with their character. I am intrigued with Loki finding the ability to make his own story and where that has been heading this season, and hopefully, we will have enough time next week to rap it up.

In the end, do we recommend Loki: Science/Fiction? While it didn’t reach the highs of last week’s Heart of the TVA, it was a perfectly solid episode that got us ready for the series finale next week. Overall, I have felt that this was a big step up for the series after Season One, and I hope they can stick the landing next week.

By Brian MacNamara: You can follow Brian on Twitter Here, when he’s not chatting about Movies and T.V., he’ll be talking about International Relations, or the Solar System.

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Credits – All images were created by the cast, crew, and production companies of Loki
Directed by – Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
Written by – Eric Martin
Created by – Michael Waldron
Based On – Characters created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby, Walt Simonson, Sal Buscema & Don Heck
Production/Distribution Companies – Marvel Studios & Disney+
Starring – Tom Hiddleston, Sophia di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Ke Huy Quan & Owen Wilson with Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Jason Pennycooke & Alan Pearson