Marvel's LOKI

Season 1 takes us for a confounding ride on a bureaucratic trip with our favorite mischievous Marvel character. Loki Laufeyson, played by Tom Hiddleston, finds himself questioning many things after being apprehended by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) for (Avengers: Endgame spoiler alert!) escaping with the Tesseract. We start to learn about the TVA as Loki is dragged, pushed, and dropped through their quirky processing procedure. Much like our experience with governmental bodies like the DMV, multiple departments/people handle niche steps that culminate in a relatively anticlimactic action. At one step Loki finds the fine Asgardian leather clothes he is wearing vaporized by a robot; at another he is forced to sign a transcript of every word he’s ever uttered.

Loki/Marvel/Disney look promising for people finding themselves in that position). The TVA protects a timeline referred to as the Sacred Timeline. SWAT teams of minutemen ensure there are no divergents to this Sacred Timeline by pruning “chaotic alterations of a predetermined timeline.” Any such event gets reset before its impact can cause permanent change to the Sacred Timeline. Things move from surreal to real when Loki witnesses the vaporization of a disobedient defendant.

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