Edit (1/11/24): After watching season 2 I was pleasantly surprised that it was better than season 1 so I upped my rating to 8. Its still had its boring stretches and certainly some story elements tried my patience but overall it was good. In the 2nd season we see Loki coming to grips with what it means to be a real leader rather than a bratty yappaholic. I still question how it took an adult hundreds if not thousands of years to grow up but he finally does and I like that version better than the childish one.

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It has its moments but its feels real slow at times. I actually wanted to see more action because the character building was just not interesting or I wanted more humor and mischief... I mean... its Loki.

The show struggled with the character building. There are a lot of characters but I found myself not caring about any of them... The stories were just not fleshed out enough. For example, the teacher lady who was heading the agency seems to have a interesting backstory but it was never explored. The others also have stories but they are basically told in words rather than showing us.

But really when it comes down to it, Loki himself is just not very interesting in this show. He just didnt do much... Conceptually he is interesting and the actor is also great but the story gets dull really quick after episode 1. I definitely didnt care about the overarching story either. Its very "epic" scale wise but this is one of the cases where its so ridiculously big that we already know how it will end. Though there might be some minor variations, the end result will be the same no matter what and ironically, the plot itself tells you this explicitly...

The other issue is antagonist, if thats what you want to call them, comes on too late and is a giant plot hole in themselves. Time travel (dont worry its not a spoiler) stories tend to have that issue but I think given the scale of what was happening, it really wasnt convincing because they clearly had better ways of dealing with the problem. And again, with this person we are just given a verbal backstory even though they seem interesting...

I know all that sounds negative but I do want to reiterate that it wasnt a bad show. They had fun moments and a little action here and there. But I expected more from a story about the God of Mischief... especially more humor which was rather sparce.