*SPOILERS, MAYBE?* Tricky to the end, FOR ALL TIME. ALWAYS. sees LOKI end its debut season not only subverting the usual Marvel formula for finale fireworks but double down by pulling out a few more surprises before things end in the most unexpected and intriguing fashion possible. Getting there, though, sees the series finally make good on all its flirting with Whovian tropes and lean fully…

*SPOILERS, MAYBE?* Given just how many presumed-pruned resurrections we’re reunited with, it’s curiously fitting that JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY is absolutely packed with Easter egg and, seeing as LOKI’s debut season is itself entering its endgame that Loki himself references his ultimate destiny as played out in AVENGERS: ENDGAME. But then, as the multiplicity of Lokis suggests, destiny ain’t what it…

*SPOILERS, MAYBE?* There are lies, damn lies and LOKI episodes which laugh to scorn at the audience’s expectations. Delivering on the event promised by its title, THE NEXUS EVENT retrospectively justifies the naval-gazing of LAMENTIS (which some, but not I, found so tedious) with a premise-shattering payoff. Quite simply, you couldn’t get to THE ENXUS EVENT without LAMENTIS and THE NEXUS EVENT…

*SPOILERS, MAYBE?* It’s been observed more than once that LOKI sometimes represents Marvel’s take on DOCTOR WHO and The Time Lords in particular. In LAMENTIS, the third episode of the season, this comparison becomes particularly apt as Loki (Hiddleston) and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) find themselves trapped on the world of Lamentis-1 as it experiences its final hours before its moon crashes into…

*SPOILERS, MAYBE?* Perhaps lulled into a false sense of cynicism by the uneven pacing of THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER, the second episode of Marvel’s Disney+ series LOKI took me by surprise. Rather than hitting the brakes and treading water to provide more details of the world of the TVA introduced in GLORIOUS PURPOSE, THE VARIANT confounds by pressing the pedal to the metal and barrelling…