In episode 5 of Loki season 2, the Trickster God has one final opportunity to find a way to save the TVA and the timestream. The episode is streaming on Disney+.
Recap
Loki closes his eyes in anticipation of his impending doom but he opens it moments later and finds himself once again in a different time. He has started time-slipping again and he walks around the TVA trying to get his bearings.
He grabs a TVA handbook before slipping to San Francisco in 1962, where a variant of Casey is escaping Alcatraz. Loki tries to talk to him but he doesn’t have any memories of the TVA or his life there.
Loki continues to slip to different locations and points in time before ending up in Cleveland, Ohio in 2022. He lands in front of an adventure sports shop where a variant of Mobius sells jetskis. This variant doesn’t recognize him either and Loki slips once more.
The next stop was Pasadena, California in 1994, where A. D. Doug, a variant of O.B., was trying to drum up interest in his sci-fi novel. O.B. is sent away and he goes back to a giant warehouse that resembles his quarters in the TVA.
Loki appears right before him and finally meets someone who doesn’t think he’s crazy. O.B. tells Loki that his first solution must be to try and control the slipping but when that doesn’t happen, he provides an alternative.
He suggests that if they can bring back the variants of everyone who was in the room before everything disappeared, they can read their collective Temporal aura and get the coordinates they need.
Loki hands O.B. the handbook so that he can start working on a tempad, but he immediately slips to a different time. Loki reappears outside Mobius’ house in 2022, and he goes up to him. Mobius tries to sell him a jet ski again but Loki tells him about the TVA.
O.B. then shows up through a time door with a DIY tempad that he states took him 19 months to build. They travel to 2012, where B-15 lives as a doctor, they also grab Casey from Alcatraz and then return to O.B.’s warehouse in 1994.
Loki then says that he has one more person to bring, and he travels to the McDonald’s where Sylvie works. However, she recognizes him and everything that happened.
She takes him out for a drink and tells him that he should let the others live out their lives rather than pull them back to the TVA. When she asks him what he truly wants, he says that he wants his friends back because the TVA was where he felt like he belonged.
She doubles down about not helping and leaves, while Loki heads back to tell everyone that they should just go back to their own lives. Sylvie stops by a record store to take in some tunes when everything around her turns into threads and unravels.
She heads to the warehouse and tells them that everything is disappearing so they have to save the TVA. Unfortunately, they are too late as one by one they begin unraveling themselves.
Loki slips to moments earlier, and then slips further back, realizing that he finally has control over it. He tells O.B. that he can be the one to rewrite the story. He then slips back to the moment where Victor goes out into the gangway.
Review
- This season has been visually spectacular and this episode is certainly one of its peaks. The effect of everything turning into strands is mesmerizing, and the sequence where Loki slips in quick succession is absolutely amazing.
- The writing is also phenomenal, such as O.B.’s explanation of Science Fiction and the questions behind it. Ke Huy Quan has been a wonderful addition to this season with his quirky performances.
- The pacing of each episode has been perfect. The tone is consistent with a good blend of drama and humor and they never feel like they are dragging along. Each and every moment is meant to be taken in.
Loki season 2 episode 5
Director:
Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Date Created:
2023-11-03 06:30
Also Read: Loki season 2 episode 4 recap & review: Heart of the TVA
