Loki: Glorious Purpose (2021)
Season 1, Episode 1
9/10
Men in Black vibes coming through strong
9 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Within the 1st 10 minutes of the show im hooked! The TVA is going to play a major part in everything to come for the MCU leading to Spider-man 3 and Doctor Strange 2. Loki picks up right where Endgame left the 2012 version who hasnt been able to go through his transition from power hungry younger brother to fan favorite paying the ultimate sacrifice. Seeing his future and the pain that this brings him, as always Tom Hiddleston plays this perfectly.

The TVA style is also just perfectly balanced between an organization that has been around for a very long time i.e. Real 70s beige vibes going on. Even down to the tech looks pre internet but can read a persons aura! Honestly one of the best parts of the episode is the Men in Black style training video that everyone whos been to the ride in Florida has surely seen, explaining who the TVA are and why, at the moment, the MCU hasn't introduced a multiverse. The animations and CGI are innkeeping with the stylistic approach of all of these Marvel tv shows so far. The door ways the teams step through screams millions of dollars and a lot of time put into this.

After Lokis start of processing through the TVA we jump back in time to see WHOW! Owen Wilson on a call out back in the 1500s. The Devil bearing gifts line is not to be missed dare we start to fall into the same trap as the speculation of WandaVision?

Humor is fine through out this but making Loki and idiot just isnt, same with Thor in Ragnarok there were times where the comedy is laugh out loud but then there's times when they just make god like characters stupid! The playing with the time collar later in the episode this is genius allowing Loki to return to his mischievous nature.

The conversations are truly poetic in this series as if these were actually written well the scene of the interrogation again has all the elements to go down in MCU history. But they did miss a trick not mentioning that Colson was alive, would really bridge the gap of the old series to the new ones! On the flip side seeing these stories tie into actual history and the D. B Cooper mystery that has never been solved.

Overall this could well be one of the best marvel property let alone the best tv show, this story could well be the opposite of the Pariah from the crisis on Infinite earths instead of watching time go by he has to help restore the balance.
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