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Loki – Season 1, Episode 2 The Variant

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Loki – Season 1, Episode 2

The Variant

Aired Jun 16, 2021

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Mobius puts Loki to work, but not everyone at the TVA is thrilled about his presence.

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Following an exposition-heavy premiere it's a little surprising how much table-setting "The Variant" has to do, but one swift twist quickly thrusts the story into hyperdrive.

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Michael Waldron

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Tom Hiddleston

Loki

Sophia Di Martino

Sylvie

Owen Wilson

Mobius M. Mobius

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Ravonna Renslayer

Wunmi Mosaku

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Brian Lowry

CNN.com

06/30/2021

Seeing Tom Hiddleston reprise his role as the suave Thor villain certainly has its charms, but thus far the god of mischief hasn't taken the shape of a wholly compelling concept.

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Ben Travers

IndieWire

06/23/2021

C

Still, it's essentially impossible to hide exposition when there's this much of it, and the chatter becomes as distracting as it is endless.

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Caroline Siede

AV Club

06/16/2021

B+

Loki locks into a much more interesting dynamic for its two leads. In some ways, Mobius' dedication to order is completely at odds with Loki's love of chaos. But in other ways, they balance each other out perfectly.

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

03/11/2024

4.5/5

Loki keeps getting better with a shocking reveal and a near-perfect genre-bending chapter.

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Serena Seghedoni

Loud and Clear Reviews

08/13/2023

At the end of it all, the most important question “The Variant” leaves you with is whether or not our hero is actually able to change.

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Kaitlyn Booth

Bleeding Cool

08/05/2021

9/10

Loki episode one might be nothing but set up that gives people a very detailed idea of when in the Marvel Cinematic Universe this series is taking place; the second episode really digs into the meat of this storyline and is much stronger for it.

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Synopsis

Mobius puts Loki to work, but not everyone at the TVA is thrilled about his presence.

Creator: Michael Waldron
Executive Producer: Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Stephen Broussard, Tom Hiddleston, Kate Herron, Michael Waldron, Dane Allan Smith, Chad Nixon, Sean Cushing, Shauna Bryan, Florian Gellinger, Christopher Edwards
Screenwriter: Michael Waldron
Network: Disney+
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date: Jun 16, 2021