‘Loki’ Season 2 Review: Tom Hiddleston Turns Mischief Into Heroism With Ease

Compelling characters, existential drama, quirky comedy and world-threatening action are blended better here than in any other Disney+ show

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Ke Huy Quan (left), Wunmi Mosaku, Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson in "Loki." (Gareth Gatrell/Marvel)

Marvel’s multiverse has been turning out variants of all shapes and sizes over the last several years. But could anything have prepared us for Loki: The Hero?

In Season 2 of the MCU’s most popular Disney+ series “Loki,” Tom Hiddleston’s Norse God of Mischief is all about saving his new friends at the Time Variance Authority from annihilation, along with billions who reside on ever multiplying timelines throughout the cosmos. Hiddleston, who’s played one of the most malign forces in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a dozen years, convinces us of Loki’s newfound altruism, only referencing his evil past in soul-searching conversations and using it as a threat when doing good cop/bad cop routines with his new best bud, TVA functionary Mobius (Owen Wilson).

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