Loki (2021 - Present)

When the bar for quality of the MCU TV shows is on the ground, it's easy to take one step over it, which is exactly what Loki did. The level of enjoyment of this series will come down to whether you truly care enough about the characters and the story or if you can handle all the tons of exposition that are dumped on us. Some say, "You have to read up to understand the complexity." To which I answer: "Am I taking a university course on a superhero TV show?" It's the creator's job to make it all crisp and clear but frankly, they couldn't craft an interesting enough storyline.

I understand that it's MCU and we aren't supposed to think too much but the topics in this series create way more questions than they provide answers for. This pretentious omnipotent TSA made everything that happened before in the MCU look insignificant. In other words, the writers used a nuclear bomb to blow up the lid of The Pandora's Box and from the looks of it, they wont be able to explain what was inside of it or how to close it at the end.

As a result, it will be difficult to enjoy the down-to-earth films like Winter Soldier because on the grand scale of things, it's all meaningless now. At this point, the MCU has entered the dangerous waters of the galactic/time level of events and they have to continue building up on it or otherwise, they wilk sink their mighty ship that has been heavily damaged.

While Hiddleston is terrific in his performance, Loki is known for his manipulation, scheming and betrayal which is what I wanted to see. Instead, once again we got your average run of the mill superhero story that had its moments but didn't make me feel any kind of emotions. He is a God with Divine abilities and a silver tongue but we never get to see him use those powers nor drop a nice phrase. I have to admit that it had many layers, Owen Wilson was fantastic and the music was spot on. Much like the TSA, the show is full of pretentious ambition which comes off as average due to inconsistencies and poor writing.

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