Loki is a surrealist, kafkaesque mashup of True Detective and The Office—and it is a sight to behold. ... The show should not work, but it does. Loki (the series) was burdened with glorious purpose from the start and, unlike Loki (the character), you can consider that purpose fulfilled.

What's good about "Loki'' is what was so good about the other Disney Plus "Endgame" spinoffs, "WandaVision'' and "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier." You don't need to be a Marvel expert, or know that Frigga was his mother, or that he had (has?) mother issues. ... This Loki, and those worlds, those mothers, look intriguing indeed. Loki fans will be much pleased.

The series traffics in true comic-book storytelling. It’s an experimental, self-contained, and thoroughly welcome reprieve.

Creator and screenwriter Michael Waldron and director Kate Herron have a ball with the multiverse and competing-timeline angles. While the show’s overall narrative apparently feeds into the forthcoming 2022 “Doctor Strange” sequel, which Waldron worked on, these first two episodes work on their own.

It's enjoyable enough and aesthetically potent, borrowing design influences from the late '60s and '70s – which may remind some people of another Marvel-rrelated TV property, "Legion." The similar visuals add breeziness to this show's tone as well, aided by Hiddleston and Wilson's combined appeal. However, that FX show was substantially weirder, immediately more perplexing but seductively so. "Loki" lacks this. If anything the plot is excessively plain.

The first two episodes of Loki (which were all that was made available for review – there are six in total), however, felt flat. The opener was a lengthy, exposition-heavy setup that felt very static, and the second spent its first half going over much the same ground. ... Still, things do perk up by the very end of the second episode.

Loki could well improve, now that its arduous task of educating us about multiverses, and glumly explaining Loki to himself, is with any luck behind it. Let’s hope so. The character deserves a lot more room to get frisky and freaky than these cramped openers carved out.

Incredible season! It breathed fresh life into Loki. A shame season 2 didn't follow up on this greatness.

Ultimately it wanted more than it could give. Despite an intriguing premise and pilot it feels like a rushed after thought. The characters feel like shadows . The plot unabashedly predictable with episodes failing at producing anything of worth. Even the cliff hangers weren't as defining as they thought they were. The set work felt abysmal. Loki feels like what happens when the ideas surpass tge feasibility. From sylvie killing a singular unguarded vulnerable man and setting off a multiversal war is just one of the plot hole conveniences. Tom Hiddleson's poor acting do little to rescue this sinking ship. I'm very dissapointed. A lot of good ideas were discarded.

Loki is a very mediocre series with very bad dialouge at times and a very boring main plot so far. I do like the plot of Loki finding out what happens to him in the future and Owen Wilson is great, but that's about it.

Another boring effort from marvel. I'm quite impressed by how many things Disney have managed to ruin recently. Fire the damn writers!!!!

Wow, so badly written it's almost funny. Mean spirited, humourless crap. Dreadful tv.