Loki

One of the most anticipated Marvel series is ultimately just average, and for how high Loki's ambitions were, it's pretty weak. Tom Hiddleston is thankfully charismatic enough to steal the series for himself, but the rest is just so... meh. It's like it's miles away from the whole Marvel thing, the whole central theme of timelines and that "evil society" is just so uninteresting, the characters aren't even as interesting as we're used to, the villain is ultimately lame, and not much happens for the whole six episodes. Certainly an important thing for the MCU that every viewer has to want to check out, but I can’t say Loki gave me anything, not really. Impersonal, down to earth and scared to go into anything bigger - either in terms of action or plot. (08/24/2021)

The second season was fine, and again, it's something that even if you don't like it, you have to see it to be oriented in the next marvel world, otherwise you will get lost and not catch on anymore. But despite so many complimentary reviews, I didn't enjoy the second season as much as the first for a simple reason. Loki here simply loses whatever it was that made him Loki throughout the MCU. Suddenly, the cunning bad guy becomes a good guy who has lost his meanness completely, doesn't use his strengths in the form of illusions and manipulations, and is just a "positive character with no characteristics". The plot isn't terribly mind-blowing either, as this collapse of the multiverse is presented so abstractly, and by the time it all comes crashing down I was thinking "so what?" because the creators haven't shown us a single concrete, tangible consequence that would evoke emotion, and which would crush us by its fatality. For me, the whole series rode on a wave of mediocrity, and the ending puts Loki in a nice position that generates interest in further developments, but I wouldn't look for anything more than that and I simply don't see any greater merits here... (11/11/2023)