After her fab review of Cruella, lovely Niamh Ferguson is back to review her fave TV show by Marvel, even though the series itself hasn’t finished yet. No mean feat, right?!
One thing to note though, if you’re a fellow fan - this is your official spoiler warning for both the series and Avengers: Endgame!!! Over to you Niamh:
Loki is perhaps my favourite TV series by Marvel, despite it being unfinished.
It’s directed by Kate Herron (best known for her work on Sex Education) and its executive producers are Kevin Feige (who is the President of Marvel Studios) , Louis D'Esposito , Victoria Alonso, Stephen Broussard, Tom Hiddleston and Michael Waldron.
I’m a big fan of Loki as a character, due to both his humour and his villainous ways, and I was excited when I saw that he was getting his own series. Tom Hiddleston ( also known for The Avengers, the Thor sagas and Early Man) plays the signature role of Loki.
Episode 1 starts off with Loki picking up the tesseract (as seen in Avengers: Endgame) and him being teleported into the Gobi desert. As he was never supposed to pick it up in the correct timeline, it caused a nexus event, which is a breach of “The Sacred Timeline.” The Time Variance Authority then arrested him, with Hunter B-15 taking the lead, and he was brought to Judge Ravonna Renslayer for the verdict. As his timeline was about to be reset, a worker named Mobius took him away to ask him a few questions .
There's a lot I love about Loki, but I do think that the special effects were overpowering everything else. There were a few robots used in one episode, and how smooth their faces moved was surprising to me, you’d think they were real people if you didn’t know the truth!
I think the costumes, designed by Christine Wada, were also amazing, and they fit the theme perfectly! She had to design a genderbent costume too, which is when a designer takes a costume and makes it fitting for the opposing gender. (in this case, it was from male to female) - how cool is that?
I love the choice of filming location too, the location of the TVA headquarters could not fit the theme any better, it looks just like the sci-fi kind of place an organisation like that would reside in.
I also love how Kate Herron decided to make it officially canon* that Loki was genderfluid, which is when on different days, one may feel like the opposing gender.
Casting:
Here is the main cast of episode 1-
Tom Hiddleston as Loki
Owen Wilson as Mobius
Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer
Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15
Tara Strong as Miss Minutes
New characters in episode 2
Sasha Lane as Hunter C-20
Sophia Di Martino as “The Variant”
With a special appearance in episode 3 from the famous Richard E. Grant!
I rate this 5/5 and it’s great for any Marvel fans around my age!
*If something is canon , it’s accepted in that fictional universe. (e.g, It’s canon that Double Trouble from She-Ra is non binary)