Lamentis

Good episode for building their characters and expanding the MCU.

The episode has some amazing fight scenes and good moments - both funny and heartwarming- thanks to both Lokis. I just feel like this, as of now, is a bit of a detour from the series' main story (particularly the first 20-25 minutes). It may set up important events in the upcoming episodes, but for now, I think it's just an unnecessary detour.

A welcome uptempo romp, not exactly low key (ba-dum-Ching!)

The production design alone is worth watching for.

A god (probably two) has to fight regular folks with their fists. Sounds about right.

With this amount of creativity, next thing you know, the huge plot twist will be that the time keepers are Lokis. Surprise!

Also remind me why Loki, being Loki, didn't just grab a few "paper weights" from the TVA? Where's his Tesseract?

The chemistry between the leads is great. But I still hold out hope that this episode all happened inside female Loki's mind when Loki grabbed her arm in front of the golden elevator, using her memory and his knowledge of apocalypses to "interrogate" her. So much for thinking ten steps ahead. Behold! A bar fight!

One more thing. If this episode was shot using the same projector-stage technology as in Mandalorian, it did a really bad job. I don't know how to put it concretely, but the background is so clearly CGI that's it's distracting. Like the backdrop being equally out of focus regardless of distance. Or is it the lack of black and contrast?

One sentences sums this episode up for me, it's when we in the distances see the city with a time goal on it, and we are told there is 1 minut left, yet they still make it, like how ?

The female "not" Loki acting is bad, like a total miscast. There isn't a spark or chemistry to be found, and as a villein she is laughably weak and dumb. Which means the TVA is even worse, as she walks though those agents like they where wheat in a field.

Loki does not even feel like himself, he keeps not using his powers when they would help, and do things Loki from the MCU or comics never would, small easy mistakes that lead to his downfall all the time.

This felt more like a dr. Who episode, and not from the good seasons we are talking the 13th doctor bad here.

I can't give it bonus bonus for. Tom anymore, so it's score is really low as it's only based on the actual episode, and it was boring and dull for the most of it. They really don't know how to move forward it seems, it's like they lost the thing that made the movies great.