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Hey, whaddya know!Lokiis pretty fun, actually!
What a nice surprise.
SoLokihas felt like a litmus test for what Marvel TV really wants to be.
Would it have the playful gestalt ofWandaVision?
Or would it be more of a blandThe Falcon and the Winter Soldierstyle slog?
You know, Marvel stuff.
Nothing about that premise guaranteesLokias part of the more freewheeling, light-touch wing of Marvel.
Its not likeWandaVision, where the concept of the story requires a departure from the status quo.
Still, there are promising signs in the first two episodes provided to critics.
But Wilson is like an imperturbable boulder in the middle of a rushing river.
Bits of story eddy around him, and the vast intricate gobbledygook of inevitable multiverse developments go rushing past.
Everyone else can run around like magical chickens with their magical heads cut off.
Wilson plays that straight-man character with such total confidence that your eye will always return to him.
Most Marvel programming performs that image in reverse.
Then, as it reaches the resolution, whatever makes it distinct gets peeled away.
Until that point, though, its nice to be able to enjoyLokifor the fun storytelling variant it is.
