Loki (2021)

What earned the score

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  Bureaucracy Cast as Cosmic Fraud

  The TVA is exposed as a fraud whose pruning of timelines has been called an atrocity and destroys billions of lives. The story frames the institution itself—not merely a rogue official—as a source of mass harm.

• Bisexuality Made MCU Canon

  Loki says he has loved both princesses and princes, confirming his bisexuality in the series. The dialogue makes LGBTQ representation part of this franchise lead’s characterization.

• Gender-Fluid Marketing Tease

  A Disney promo had already hinted that Loki was gender fluid. The marketing adds a separate gender-identity signal to the character’s LGBTQ positioning.

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  Female Variant as Assassin

  Sylvie, a female Loki variant, stabs He Who Remains and is prepared to kill him despite the catastrophic consequences. The story casts a woman as the decisive fighter in this conflict.

Details

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

Starring

Tom HiddlestonSophia Di MartinoWunmi MosakuEugene CorderoKe Huy Quan

Genre

DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Release Date

Jun 09, 2021

Parents Guide

• Sex None

  A machine gets rid of a man's clothes. The viewer only briefly sees him from the waist up and the knees down before he is seen fully clothed again.

  Loki and Sylvie share a chaste kiss.

• Violence Mild

  Spears go through multiple characters with injury detail heavily visible.

  A character has his hand bitten off. The bloody stump is briefly visible for a few seconds.

  The bodies of minute men are shown dead in pools of blood. At the end of the episode some minute men are burned alive. However, none of these scenes are graphic.

  There are some fight scenes however, they aren't very violent. And there is a fight sequence with some people getting stabbed. Loki is also slashed with a spear and there is a bloody wound briefly shown on his arm.

  The actions sequences are less frequent than in other films and shows of the MCU franchise, and there isn't as much blood or gore.

  A woman punches a man in the face and knees him in the groin multiple times. Played for laughs but can be painful to watch.

  Season 2, Episode 4: Victor Timely is "spaghettified", which means his body is ripped apart to "spaghetti", in a similar way to Reed Richards in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Some blood can clearly be seen.

  Victor timely is torn to shreds trying to repair the loom.

  In Season 2, Episode 4, a woman kills a dozen of people using a cube that gradually shrinks until everyone inside is squished. The deaths are not shown visually, but you can clearly hear screams and the sound of flesh squishing together. It is one of the more violent scenes in the MCU.

• Profanity Mild

  Throughout the series, there are infrequent uses of "s**t", "p**s" , "hell", "ass", and "d**n"

  Throughout the series occasional s**t's like one per episode, then more frequent but still infrequent uses of "p**s," "d**n," "hell," and "ass" respectively.

  Minimal use of "b**tard, "s**t," "ass," "p**s," "d**n," and "hell" respectively.

• Drugs None

  Loki drinks wine on the train.

  Loki seems to be drunk

  There are a few scenes involving alcohol, but its use is very mild and limited. It is shown as something consumed normally rather than being a major part of the story. Overall, the alcohol content is unlikely to be a significant concern for children aged 10 and above.

• Frightening Scenes Mild

  The show's tone has shifts and sometimes may scare younger viewers with a creepy surreal in the end of the episodes.

  A young girl is taken away by a group of people who is then taken up to the Varient Area. She tries to escape but then bites the others then officially escapes.

  The timekeepers may scare younger viewers.

  There is a jump scare at the beginning of the episode that may be frightening to some viewers.

  There is a scene in Season 2 Episode 4 where a character is unexpectedly spaghettified and dies. It is disturbing but brief. Earlier though, it is mentioned that the temporal radiation is much stronger than in episode 1 of Season 2. The character death was certainly foreseeable to a degree.

  A man turns into spaghetti.

  The climax of season 2 is intense and emotional.

  The TV series is intended for people who are 12 and older due to violence and action scenes.

  There are several distressing scenes, particularly in Season 2, where trillions of people appear to die all at once.

  The entire series has a dark and claustrophobic environment.

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