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The God of Mischief is back. Loki was one of my favorite characters in the whole MCU: he was witty, he was charismatic, he was handsome, and he was tragically and romantically lost and hopeless. The low-key (hihi) Joker anti-hero figure that many people liked even better than his positive counterpart of a brother. I was very excited when I've heard that they, despite the events in Endgame, were going to make a standalone show with him as a main character, the first time Marvel have done so with a villain-figure. I feel like because Loki is such an interesting character by himself the show was bound for success just for the sheer fact of it's existence, and it was indeed wildly successful. This may come off as a mild spoiler (not really though, you understand this in the first 5 minutes of the first episode), but I was extremely happy that the show is not about his past life and doesn't just consist of flashbacks. It's rather a story that goes in maximal depth exploring the essence of Loki, which provides us with new information that will be relevant to the future of MCU.

I do think it is a very good show (indicated by my 8/10 rating), but loads of people enjoyed it way more than I did, basically raising it to the title of one of the best things Marvel have ever made. I would allow myself to disagree with that; I found the couple of episodes in the middle pretty weak and personally liked "WandaVison" more, but I think I know why people's excitement about "Loki" may be disproportional to it's quality. With this show, Marvel continues to set us up for the next insanity that the newest phase 4 will behold, the multiverse. Because of that, I feel like the glimpse of the amazing, virtually unlimited potential of what Marvel would eventually release is actually more exciting than the show itself, and this is where all the 10/10's ratings for Loki are coming from. Loki is going to directly link into "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" (2022), so if you're planning on fully understanding what the hell is going on in the MCU in the upcoming years, this is pretty much a must watch.

As a small side note: you may have caught on the fact that I'm crazy about soundtracks; and Loki has incredibly atmospheric, penetrating tunes that instantly bring Loki's Scandinavian heritage to mind and that made me reminisce of the works of Hildur Guðnadóttir (Chernobyl; Joker). Very happy to have discovered the composer Natalie Holt whom I have never heard of before, terrific work and I hope I will be hearing more of her.