Loki

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Season 1
  • Network: Disney+
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 9, 2021
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
6.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 173 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 110 out of 173
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 173
  3. Negative: 39 out of 173
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  1. Unicron666
    Aug 5, 2021
    3
    Another boring effort from marvel. I'm quite impressed by how many things Disney have managed to ruin recently. Fire the damn writers!!!!
  2. LeScull
    Jul 24, 2021
    2
    Wow, so badly written it's almost funny. Mean spirited, humourless crap. Dreadful tv.
  3. cdmars04
    Jun 11, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show from a production and acting standpoint is good, that's not the problem, Disney has the money to pay for effects and talent. The problem is the story this show is pushing from this episode alone invalidates every part of the MCU's story. The villains aren't evil, the heroes aren't good, everything is just a predetermined straight line of events that will be repeated by the TVA until the events turn out how they want. Tony Stark didn't make his suit because he wanted to escape the cave and become a hero, he made it and did all that because some interdimensional space lizards would have him melted for not following their preordained series of events.… Expand
  4. Jaramide
    Jun 11, 2021
    2
    Disney is really doing absolutely everything they can to ruin the MCU including trying to retcon every prior movie to be completely insignificant.
  5. wanwan_1
    Jun 11, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The first episode of Loki was dull. The jokes do not land well, and the purported twists are forced subversion. For example, the drawer full of Infinity Stones being used as paper weights is stupid. This means that the impact of these Infinity Stones are next to nothing. It's probably used to make the TVA a powerful entity, but the Infinity Stones are the origins of the universe made into concentrated ingots. Think about it! The origins of the universe are paperweights! What does that mean for all the future movies and shows, not to mention the past shows? Meaningless. This is but one example of this insipid show. Tom Hiddleston is doing his best, and he is the only reason to watch this, but the Loki character is watered down with dumb jokes and lackluster writing. Owen Wilson sucks in this role as the one playing the "straight man", not the buffoon. Everyone else is not memorable at all. You only remember TH and barely Owen Wilson. The ending "cliffhanger" shows the variant Loki who is obviously female. I don't mind that "twist", but the story and writing better be good. Otherwise, it's just a "Hey, it's a female Loki!" "Ha ha, the writers are so clever!" I am being sarcastic. The show and story line are very transparent and uninteresting. There is no tension, no stakes, no impact. We all know the real Loki dies in Infinity War, a Loki who has been through a redeeming arc. This variant Loki is a whatever. This show is like the Sky Tram at Disneyland, slowly moving across the park, and it's only purpose is getting us to the next area. It's a ride, but a boring, slow, plodding one.… Expand
  6. oizuki
    Jun 9, 2021
    1
    Omg. I feared it would be bad, judging by the analyses I'd heard today. But it was even worse. Even the acting from the actor I love (TH) was half-hearted. Besides the idiocy of a time authority effing everything up, it was just damn boring. They've turned the action-packed MCU into psychoanalysis. Disney has the touch of death on every franchise they touch.
  7. jacob1984
    Jun 10, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Logic behind this show diminishes every singe choice any of the heroes in previous movies made. It also shutters idea of multiverse. Probably at the end of the season the office will be disbanded and multiverse will be again a possibility, but even so it will not make sense considering that the office is working outside of time. MCU have jumped the shark.… Expand
  8. ScienceAdvisor
    Jun 9, 2021
    1
    This show is basically trying to be Loki: Editors Chair. Anything that needs to happpen will, because the director said so, and this has now been retconned as having always been the case for the MCU. Nothing that we saw previously was due to characters making choices. Instead a bunch of aliens had already arbitrarily decided that you MUST do something in a specific way, to suit theirThis show is basically trying to be Loki: Editors Chair. Anything that needs to happpen will, because the director said so, and this has now been retconned as having always been the case for the MCU. Nothing that we saw previously was due to characters making choices. Instead a bunch of aliens had already arbitrarily decided that you MUST do something in a specific way, to suit their purposes. All style, no substance, and the universal destruction of the franchise. Black Widow sacrificed herself for what this abomination of a show turn into a glorified paperweight! They actually thought it was funny, but the repercussions are total. Nothing matters in the MCU any longer.

    Then there is Loki. Remember the one from Avengers that was intelligent, cunning, and capable? Even though this Loki is from the end of that movie, they decided to make him stpuid, bumbling, and useless. The writers could not be bothered to review his powers, so they did not even know that he is the master of illusion, and could not be bothered to think about what he could do with the Tesseract. Instead he tries to act like Thor and just punch his way out of a confrontation, even though they clearly have advanced technology and power. No nuance at all. From Loki's perspective he was just Hulk-smashed for similar arrogance, so there is no way he would want to fight anyone at this time.

    Then we get to the timenazis who will melt you "if you started an uprising, or were just late for work". If this were being carried out by aliens the sociopathic nature of such an off hand remark would be plausible, but coming from a human just reminds you that similar writers were trying to make a murderer and terrorist sympathetic in their last failed show (FatWS). Also the timenazis are omni-powerful when convienent, and then pathetic and easy to defeat when convienent. How this is possible when they can rewind time was apparently too much of an ask for the writers.

    The Loki show is BOTH The Last Jedi & Rise of Skywalker combined in what it does to the MCU. The Infinity stones are pointless, time travel alone is somehow more powerful, and everyone in the entire Universe had their script written from the start. No free will, no choice, no sacrifice. If you fail to do it their way, the timenazis will just copy you and melt the previous you an infinite number of times until you achieve "their truth". Apparently this is a wide-spread Disney issue, not just a Kennedy/Lucasfilm one. In the first half of one epsiode they just destroyed everything that came before, or will ever come again in this MCU. #MCUNothingMatters    … Expand
  9. OlivierPiel
    Jun 29, 2021
    2
    Ep 1: It's terribly satisfying to see Disney simply eviscerate the whole so-called MCU and make all all the previous movies moot. What a way to show the middle-finger to its fervent fan base. This audacity needs to be commanded! I suspect the aim is to capture a new market: grown-ups, i.e. mature people that look down on the super-hero genre. And despite lame asides, lazy jokes and actingEp 1: It's terribly satisfying to see Disney simply eviscerate the whole so-called MCU and make all all the previous movies moot. What a way to show the middle-finger to its fervent fan base. This audacity needs to be commanded! I suspect the aim is to capture a new market: grown-ups, i.e. mature people that look down on the super-hero genre. And despite lame asides, lazy jokes and acting by Owen Wilson, and an horrendous/dumb gimmick (the ability to to control the time/movement of another person) the writing kept me intrigued. Hopefully it doesn't devolve into that preposterous Wandavision show.

    Ep2 and 3: Well, what a disappointment. The former Rick and Morty writer desperately tries to create an existentialist Super hero story and it feels noisy (non stop talking), bloated, self-indulgent and ....cringe. Better watch the original Rick and Morty season 5 than this.    … Expand
  10. Shallon4000
    Jun 9, 2021
    1
    very disappointed in how they turn Loki into a joke. This show is ridiculously woke.
  11. Mengas
    Jun 9, 2021
    0
    Same Disney. Same rules. Same. Same. Same. No way . We want something diferent.
  12. DolphinReviews
    Jul 22, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its hilarious the Marvel executives thought this show was a good idea. Brining Loki back into MCU completely ruins one of the strongest parts of Avengers Infinity War. Most of the dialogue is painfully boring and cringe. One of the main storylines is Loki falling in love with a female version of himself.... yikes. Awful Disney Plus MCU muck.… Expand

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. i
    Reviewed by: Emily Baker
    Dec 3, 2021
    60
    Hiddleston and Wilson are perfect screen partners. ... And yet Loki still felt limp. The introduction of variants and timeline laws managed to be both overly knotty and explained away, and the lack of either Marvel-esque combat or quirky subtlety rendered the episode a little unambitious.
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  2. Radio Times
    Reviewed by: Huw Fullerton
    Dec 2, 2021
    80
    If there are any minor quibbles – a slightly hand-wavey explanation of some time travel rules, a couple of dodgy accents, some slightly low-key action scenes – they’re easily outweighed by the performances, world-building and general confidence of this series. Right now, it’s the best Marvel Disney Plus series so far.
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  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Helen O'Hara
    Sep 20, 2021
    80
    Marvel’s most purely entertaining show yet, this gives depth to its central character without losing his essential flightiness, and makes him sympathetic without forgetting that bad guys are more fun.
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