Loki (Season 1) TV Series Details:
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Action, Adventure, Fantasy |
| Season | 1 |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Release date | June 9 – July 14, 2021 |
| Running time | 41–56 minutes |
| Age rating | TV-14 |
| Starring | Tom Hiddleston Gugu Mbatha-Raw Wunmi Mosaku Eugene Cordero Tara Strong Owen Wilson Sophia Di Martino Sasha Lane Jack Veal DeObia Oparei Richard E. Grant Jonathan Majors |
| Created by | Michael Waldron |
| Directed by | Kate Herron |
| Written by | Michael Waldron Elissa Karasik Bisha K. Ali Eric Martin |
| Cinematography by | Autumn Durald Arkapaw |
| Edited by | Emma McCleave Calum Ross Paul Zucker |
| Music by | Natalie Holt |
| Casting by | Sarah Finn Krista Husar |
| Production Design by | Kasra Farahani |
| Production Company | Marvel Studios |
| Distributor | Disney+ |
Loki (Season 1) TV Series Cast & Character:
- Tom Hiddleston as Loki:
- Hiddleston also portrays President Loki
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer
- Mbatha-Raw also portrays Rebecca Tourminet,
- Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15
- Eugene Cordero as Casey
- Tara Strong voices Miss Minutes
- Owen Wilson as Mobius M. Mobius
- Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie
- Sasha Lane as Hunter C-20
- DeObia Oparei as Boastful Loki
- Richard E. Grant as Classic Loki
- Jonathan Majors as He Who Remains
- Majors also voices the “mindless android” Time-Keepers
Storyline:
After stealing the Tesseract during the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority (TVA), a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant”, or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat. Loki ends up in his own crime thriller, traveling through time, hunting a female version of himself named Sylvie. After the first season ends with the timeline breaking and the creation of a multiverse, the second season shows Loki teaming up with Mobius M. Mobius, Hunter B-15, and other TVA agents “in a battle for the soul” of the TVA. This includes a search through the multiverse for Sylvie, Ravonna Renslayer, and Miss Minutes.
About Loki (Season 1) TV Series:
The first season of the American television series Loki, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name, sees Loki brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority (TVA) after stealing the Tesseract during the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), and is forced to help catch a dangerous variant version of himself. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films and television series of the franchise. The season was produced by Marvel Studios, with Michael Waldron serving as head writer and Kate Herron directing.
Loki was officially confirmed among the various Disney+ series in development from Marvel Studios in November 2018, along with Hiddleston’s involvement.
Filming began in February 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia, but was halted in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Production resumed that September and completed in December. The series takes place after the events of the film Avengers: Endgame, in which an alternate version of Loki created a new timeline
e, diverging from the events of The Avengers (2012). The season has a crime thriller tone, and sets up the events of the MCU films Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023).
The first season premiered on Disney+ on June 9, 2021, running for six episodes until July 14, as part of Phase Four of the MCU.
The season has received positive reviews, with praise for the performances, musical score, and visuals. A second season was announced in July 2021.
Loki (Season 1) Episodes List:
Loki S1, Episode 1: Glorious Purpose
June 9, 2021
Loki is arrested by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) when he creates a new timeline after escaping from the Battle of New York with the Tesseract in 2012. The TVA resets the timeline, and this “variant” Loki stands trial in front of Judge Ravonna Renslayer for crimes against the “Sacred Timeline”. Loki blames the situation on the Avengers, who had traveled back in time to 2012, but Renslayer says their actions were meant to happen unlike Loki’s escape. Agent Mobius M. Mobius takes Loki to the Time Theater to review his past misdeeds and question his history of hurting people. He reveals that Loki, in his intended future, inadvertently causes the death of his adoptive mother Frigga. Loki attempts to escape, but gives up after realizing that the TVA’s power exceeds that of the Infinity Stones. He returns to the Time Theater and watches more future events, including his own death at the hands of Thanos. He then agrees to help Mobius hunt another Loki variant, who was killing several TVA agents and stealing their timeline-resetting charges.
Loki S1, Episode 2: The Variant
June 16, 2021
Loki joins a TVA mission to the site of an attack by “The Variant” in 1985 Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he stalls and attempts to bargain his way into meeting the Time-Keepers, who the TVA claims created them and the Sacred Timeline. Renslayer objects to Loki’s further involvement, but Mobius convinces her to give him another chance. Loki researches TVA files and theorizes that the Variant is hiding near apocalyptic events where their actions do not affect the timeline. Loki and Mobius confirm this possibility by visiting Pompeii in 79 AD, before deducing that the Variant is hiding during a hurricane in 2050 Alabama. There, they are ambushed by the Variant who enchants several locals and TVA agent Hunter B-15. The Variant reveals herself to be a female version of Loki and rejects his offer to overthrow the Time-Keepers together. She sends the stolen reset charges to various points along the Sacred Timeline, which activate and create numerous branched timelines that throw the TVA into disarray. She teleports away, and Loki follows her.
Loki S1, Episode 3: Lamentis
June 23, 2021
With the TVA distracted, the Variant arrives at their headquarters and attempts to find the Time-Keepers, but is followed and confronted by Loki. They are attacked by Renslayer, and Loki uses a TemPad to teleport them both to 2077 Lamentis-1, a moon that is about to be crushed by a planet. The TemPad runs out of power and is magically hidden by Loki. The Variant, who goes by Sylvie, agrees to work with Loki to charge it. They sneak aboard a train bound for the ark, an evacuation spaceship that could recharge the TemPad, but Loki gets drunk and draws attention. This leads to a fight with guards who throw him off the train. Sylvie follows him, only to find the TemPad broken. The duo continue on foot, intending to commandeer the ark so they can escape before Lamentis-1 is destroyed. On the way, Sylvie reveals that the TVA’s workers are actually variants of people from Earth. Loki and Sylvie fight their way through guards and a crowd of people attempting to board the ark, but meteors from the oncoming planet destroy it before they can board.
Loki S1, Episode 4: The Nexus Event
June 30, 2021
Sylvie tells Loki that she escaped from the TVA as a child. They form a romantic bond, which creates a unique branched timeline and alerts the TVA to find and arrest them before Lamentis-1 is destroyed. Mobius leaves Loki in a time loop of a bad memory he has of Sif while Sylvie unlocks B-15’s memories to prove that B-15 is a variant. Renslayer tells Mobius that C-20 died from a mental breakdown, but Mobius finds a recording of Renslayer interrogating a mentally sound C-20, who insists that the TVA workers are all variants. Mobius frees Loki from the time loop, but Renslayer confronts them and has Mobius “pruned”. Renslayer takes Loki and Sylvie to the Time-Keepers, who order Loki and Sylvie to be deleted. With B-15’s help, Loki and Sylvie defeat Renslayer and the Time-Keepers’ guards. Sylvie beheads one of the Time-Keepers, but discovers they are androids before a recovered Renslayer prunes Loki. Sylvie overpowers Renslayer and demands the truth. In a mid-credits scene, Loki awakens surrounded by several other Loki variants.
Loki S1, Episode 5: Journey into Mystery
July 7, 2021
Renslayer tells Sylvie that when Loki was pruned, he was sent to the Void at the end of time, from which nothing has ever returned. They deduce that the TVA’s true creator is hiding beyond the Void. TVA mascot Miss Minutes stalls for time until TVA troopers surround Sylvie, who prunes herself and soon meets Mobius in the Void. After interrogating B-15, Renslayer plans to reach the TVA’s true creator. Meanwhile, the other Loki variants tell Loki that a massive cloud-like creature called Alioth destroys everything in the Void. After encountering a second Loki group that devolves into infighting, Classic Loki helps Loki, Alligator Loki, and Kid Loki escape. They come across Mobius and Sylvie, and Mobius returns to the TVA using a TemPad that Sylvie brought with her. Sylvie attempts to enchant Alioth while Loki distracts it, but they fail until Classic Loki sacrifices himself, creating an illusion of Asgard to draw Alioth’s attention. Loki and Sylvie successfully enchant Alioth together, and the creature shows them the way to a citadel beyond the Void.
Loki S1, Episode 6: For All Time. Always.
July 14, 2021
Renslayer leaves on a mission to find “free will” after Miss Minutes gives her information from the TVA’s creator, “He Who Remains”. B-15 proves to TVA troopers that they are variants by showing them a Renslayer variant who is a school vice-principal. Meanwhile, in the Citadel at the End of Time, He Who Remains tells Loki and Sylvie that he ended a multiversal war between his variants by using Alioth to destroy alternate timelines and created the TVA to maintain this peace. As he has grown weary, he offers them a choice: kill him and risk another multiversal war or replace him in overseeing the TVA and a singular timeline. Sylvie wants to kill him, but Loki pleads with her to stop. They kiss, but Sylvie sends Loki back to TVA headquarters. She ultimately kills He Who Remains, unleashing a multiverse with alternate timelines that the TVA cannot prune. At TVA headquarters, Loki warns Mobius and B-15 about He Who Remains’ variants, but they do not recognize him and Loki sees that a statue of one of the variants has replaced statues of the Time-Keepers.
