Here’s watch to watch for in episode 1, “Glorious Purpose.”
The third MCU TV show is now streaming on Disney+. Loki is off on his self-titled adventures after escaping his predetermined timeline back in Avengers: Endgame when the present day Avengers interfered with the past and–well, you don’t need us to tell you that this is exactly the kind of chaos you no doubt expected from the God of Mischief.
But things actually aren’t that simple in the show. It turns out the Tesseract, which fans assumed would be the crux of Loki’s galavanting through time and space, is actually nothing more than a glowing prop, totally useless in the face of the real powers that be. The TVA, or Time Variance Authority, has brought Loki in–not for manipulating anything with the Tesseract, but for escaping his timeline with it to begin with–and he’s going to have to stand trial to prove that he shouldn’t be “reset” (read: disintegrated) to preserve the flow of time.
Thankfully, he’s found himself something of an advocate–Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson), a TVA agent on a mission, believes that Loki can help the TVA track down a criminal causing variances in time all throughout the past and future. And it just so happens that the criminal actually is a variation of Loki–so who better to get inside his head than the man himself?
Of course, things can never be that simple, especially when you throw time travel into the mix. The series will no doubt become even more complicated as things progress, so it’s definitely best to start taking notes and keeping track of clues now before things spiral out of control.
Loki lands on Disney+ every Wednesday.
