Loki TV Series: It is an American tv series that was created by Michael Waldron and produced by Kevin Feige. This series has 1 season and 6 number of episodes to date.
Loki TV Series has been rated TV-14 for the content shown in the film. If you are a fan of Marvel movies or plan to watch marvel movies in the coming future, you should definitely read the article about Marvel Movies in Order to Watch here.
Loki TV Series Plot
It is a tv series that is set after the events of Avengers: Endgame and revolves around a mercurial villain named Loki. He is seen again as the God of Mischief who is even more powerful than before. In this series, it was shown that an alternate version of Loki is transported to Time Variance Authority (TVA).
TVA is an organization that exists outside of space and time and works to monitor timelines. The organization presents Loki with two options: one was that he has to face being erased from the timeline as he is a time-variant or helps the organization fix the timeline.
Marketing
Some selected members of the Disney marketing team got access to the script and information on the series after the shooting started. With that information, the marketing team started planning when and how to promote the movie in the best possible way.
Asad Ayaz, the president of the marketing team of Walt Disney Studios along with his team worked closely with Kevin Feige. During Disney Investor Day, a trailer of the series was released in the month of December 2020.
Loki TV Series Released
Loki was released on Disney+ on June 9, 2021. It was released every Wednesday. The first season has six episodes and it ended on July 14. Initially. the series was previously scheduled to release in May 2021 but because of some reasons, it was shifted to June 11, 2021. Liki is a part of Phase 4 of MCU.
Development
In the month of September 2018, Marvel Studios revealed that they are about to develop several limited series for Disney+. For all of these series, they decided that the actors will reprise their roles for the series. All of these series were expected to have somewhere around 6 to 10 episodes.
The Cast of Loki Series:
Following is the list of the star cast of the movie along with the names of the characters portrayed by them:
- Tom Hiddleston as Loki
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer
- 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
- Jack Veal as Kid Loki
- DeObia Oparei as Boastful Loki
- Richard E. Grant as Classic Loki
- Jonathan Majors as He Who Remains
Filming
The filming of the series started on February 10, 2020, at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. The filming started with the working title Architect. The shooting was done on Sony Venice digital cameras having Panavision anamorphic T series lenses.
Critical Response
On IMDB, the series has been rated 7.9 out of 10. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series is rated 92% fresh. “A delightful diversion from the MCU as we know it, Loki successfully sees star Tom Hiddleston leap from beloved villain to endearing antihero—with a little help from Owen Wilson—in a series that’s as off-kilter, charming, and vaguely dangerous as the demigod himself,” said the website’s consensus.
Peter Travers from Rolling Stone 3 out of 4 points to the movie and said, “The secret of Ant-Man and the Wasp is that it works best when it doesn’t try so hard when it lets charm trump excess and proves that less can be more even in the Marvel universe.”
Post-Production
At the time of the production shutdown, Herron decided to utilize the time by editing the footage that had already been filmed. This single thing helped her in determining which scenes need to be reshot again. The editing of the series was done by Paul Zucker, Calum Ross, and Emma McCleave.
Music
In the month of August 2020, Composer Natalie Holt started working on a “suite of themes ” for the TVA, Loki, Mobius, and Sylvie. She started working from the last episode and then move back towards the first episode.
Do You Know?
Following are some of the hidden facts about the Loki TV Series:
- You might have missed but there was a Skrull present at the TVA headquarters.
- In the first episode, there was a reference to Doctor Strange’s villain.
- In the series, Mobius was seen as a big fan of Josta Cola.
- D.B. Cooper was a real person. In the year 1971, Cooper hijacked a plane.
Loki is a fun series that started from the previous events of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This series can be considered that layers the foundation of Phase 4 of MCU. This series introduces marvel’s villain for the next Marvel movie and it presented him in quite a funny way.