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Loki season 2

The second season of the American television series Loki, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name, sees Loki working with Mobius M. Mobius, Hunter B-15, and other members of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to navigate the multiverse in order to find Sylvie, Ravonna Renslayer, and Miss Minutes. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. The season is produced by Marvel Studios, with Eric Martin serving as head writer and Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead leading the directing team.

Loki

6

Disney+

October 5 (2023-10-05) –
November 9, 2023 (2023-11-09)

Tom Hiddleston reprises his role as Loki from the film series, starring alongside Sophia Di Martino (Sylvie), Wunmi Mosaku (Hunter B-15), Eugene Cordero, Neil Ellice, Owen Wilson (Mobius), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Renslayer), Tara Strong (Miss Minutes), and Jonathan Majors reprising their roles from the first season, alongside Rafael Casal, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr, Ke Huy Quan, and Richard Dixon. Development on a second season had begun by November 2020, and was confirmed in July 2021, with Martin, Benson, and Moorhead all hired by late February 2022. Filming began in June 2022 at Pinewood Studios and concluded in October. Dan DeLeeuw and Kasra Farahani were revealed as additional directors for the season in June 2023.


The second season debuted on Disney+ on October 5, 2023, and ran for six episodes until November 9, as part of Phase Five of the MCU. The season received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its conclusion, musical score, and Loki's character arc.

as Loki:
Thor's adopted brother and the god of mischief, based on the Norse mythological deity of the same name. He is an alternate, "time variant" version of Loki who created a new timeline in Avengers: Endgame (2019) beginning in 2012.[5] He is time slipping, being pulled through time between the past, present, and future.[6][7][8] Hiddleston said the season sees Loki "understanding himself", having found this new Time Variance Authority (TVA) family and his "new capacity to make connections",[9] with the character finally finding a meaning and purpose in trying to help protect the TVA and his friends there.[10]

Tom Hiddleston

as Sylvie:
A variant of Loki who broke the timeline through killing He Who Remains in a misguided act of revenge.[5] The season sees Sylvie working as a cashier at a McDonald's in a branched timeline, in 1982 Broxton, Oklahoma.[11][12]

Sophia Di Martino

Wunmi Mosaku

[13]

Eugene Cordero

[16]

as Hunter X-5 / Brad Wolfe:
A TVA Hunter with a close connection to General Dox.[18] Casal called Hunter X-5 "Loki's mirror—another person who feels wronged. He's a bit of a lost character and almost feels like an earlier version of Loki, reflecting back to him."[14]: 9  Director Dan DeLeeuw called X-5 "more of a straight villain, more of a heavy; a foil for Loki".[19] Executive producer Kevin R. Wright spoke to X-5's relationship to Dox, noting it had a "maternal" quality, but questioned how much of that was because of their past lives, or "institutionalized from being in the TVA".[18] X-5 finds his real life on the Sacred Timeline and becomes the actor Brad Wolfe. DeLeeuw thought Casal "brought an interesting humanity" to his portrayal of Wolfe, explaining that it was his choice to become Wolfe to break free from the TVA being X-5's reality. As well, the creative team "couldn't resist" having a character who no longer believed in the reality of the TVA becoming an actor, given Wolfe now "puts on a perception of reality for a living".[19]

Rafael Casal

as General Dox: A TVA general who is part of the new TVA council of judges following Renslayer's disappearance.[20] She is searching for Sylvie and still believes in the TVA's mission to prune branched timelines.[21]

Kate Dickie

as Judge Gamble: A TVA judge who is part of the TVA council.[18]

Liz Carr

as Hunter D-90: A TVA Hunter.[6]

Neil Ellice

Ke Huy Quan

[22]

Owen Wilson

[25]

as Ravonna Renslayer: A former TVA judge who has gone missing and has connections to He Who Remains.[29]

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

as Miss Minutes:
The animated anthropomorphic AI clock mascot of the TVA created by He Who Remains who is in love with him and jealous of Renslayer.[30] Humanizing Miss Minutes and exploring her human desires and aspirations was discussed early on in the season's development. Director/production designer Kasra Farahani noted how "reductive characters" are referred to as cartoons "in a pejorative way", and the creatives wanted to give Miss Minutes, an actual cartoon, "these super awkward and complex emotional feelings".[31] Natasha Arancini acts as the on-set stand-in for Miss Minutes.[32]

Tara Strong

Richard Dixon as Robber Baron: An who purchases a faulty invention from Victor Timely at the 1893 Chicago's World's Fair.[33]

industrialist

Jonathan Majors

[13]

Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead and cinematographer Isaac Bauman have cameos in the season as John Anglin, Clarence Anglin,[36] and a dirt bike enthusiast, respectively.

Release[edit]

The second season debuted on Disney+ on October 5, 2023, at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, with subsequent episodes releasing weekly on Thursdays at that time.[104] The season ran for six episodes,[44] concluding on November 9.[105] The season was originally scheduled to premiere on October 6 and release on Fridays at 3 a.m. Eastern Time,[106][107] before moving to its Thursday release schedule following the similar, successful scheduling move for the Star Wars Disney+ series Ahsoka.[107] A launch event for the season, which screened the first two episodes, occurred on October 2 at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles,[108][109] alongside events in various other cities in the United States.[110] It is part of Phase Five of the MCU.[111]

Reception[edit]

Audience viewership[edit]

On October 9, 2023, Disney+ revealed that "Ouroboros" had 10.9 million views worldwide in its first three days of release. This was the second most-watched season premiere for the streaming service in 2023, behind the third season of The Mandalorian.[112] According to Whip Media's TV Time, Loki was the most watched original series across all platforms in the United States during the week of October 15, 2023,[113] during the week of October 22, 2023,[114] and during the week of October 29, 2023.[115] According to the streaming aggregator JustWatch, Loki was the most watched television series across all platforms in the United States during the week of October 9–15, 2023.[116]


According to Whip Media's viewership tracking app TV Time, Loki was the second most-watched streaming original television series of 2023.[117][118]

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