Loki: Season 2 (Where Will It Lead?)

Of all the first-run, Marvel/Disney+ programs, the apocalyptic-angled Loki was most prone to expansion. Lo and behold, a six-segment sequel arrives.

Season 1 had protagonist/antagonist Loki (Tim Hiddleson) and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), aka Lady Loki, meeting (and striking down) a variant of Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors), aka He Who Remains, now re-stationed as Victor Timely, recycling the Multiverse with neo, clashing complexities. (The warm-up even got us comfortable for Quantomania, as much as WandaVision got us hyped for The Multiverse of Madness.) 

As with Season 1, more TVA (Time Variance Alliance) action dominates, queued by Mobius M. Mobius (Owen Wilson); Ouroboros (Ke "Short Round" Huy Quan); Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku); Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw); Casey (Eugene Cordero); and Miss Minutes (Tara Strong). (Rafael Casal, Liz Carr and Kate Dickie join the ensemble in undisclosed roles.) 

Loki, in my humble estimation, exudes a Doctor Who spark (with a marginal smidgeon of 12 Monkeys), though with a much stronger (if not, anguished), time-slipping shove. (Based on the trailer, Asgard's perilous God of Mischief will be yanked here, there and everywhere.) Sometimes, though, an overload of ambitious meandering can cause more confusion than not, so let's hope this follow-up gives just enough uncanny trajectories as not to lose coherence. 

Oh, and as a venturesome gimmick, the famous, restaurant chain, MacDonald's (or at least one of its pervading pitstops) will play an instrumental role in the storyline, though sprung from Lady Loki's vantage. Weird, but again, with infinite possibilities pinballing, where would such a temporal novelty go, and how it might such shameless, product placement jive with thee surrounding surrealism? 

Guess we'll soon see, for Season 2 interphases Oct 5.