Loki

The alternative approach failed grossly. Loki is overwrought, disjointed, muddled, cheap-looking in places, with action on the level of 1990s pop culture TV flicks. The seemingly super-clever script is a patchwork of everything that has been better executed in other Marvel movies, with more emotional barrage. Instead of a fearsome villain, Loki is a soulless figure jumping from one meaningless world to another. Nothing holds together, nothing makes any sense and nothing matters to the viewer. I finished watching it only out of respect for the now classic films, otherwise it's a turn off in the middle. (28/08/2021)

An alternative indie Marvel? Atmospheric yes, solidly acted too, but conceptually at least a bold and unconventional foray into temporal paradoxes and other screenwriting flourishes. It will be interesting to see if the creators manage to get it right, or if it swells into utter nonsense. (01/08/2021)

The second episode takes the baton firmly and opens the scissors of the story wider. So far, it's not very action-packed, nor is it typically over-the-top; rather, it's interesting to watch the bizarreness of the script and the weird retro-futuristic style present at every turn. (01/08/2021)

It looks and feels like a Super Mario style action platform game that you play on a small Nintendo on the train where there is no signal to do anything more meaningful. (01/08/2021)

It's an interesting psychological game. The viewer has no idea how and why, but this episode is entertaining. (26/08/2021)

A total dud and a road to hell. Unless the last episode comes out with some completely transcendent and disarming finale, explaining this whole mess full of weird monsters, time jumping, alternate realities and an unconventional love story, or at least a hint of it, it can't be considered anything but a sophisticated comic parody, unfortunately probably unintended. (26/08/2021)

And there was be no meaningful finale, unfortunately. (28/08/2021)