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I'm not sure I agree with everybody on this one.

I think all of the stuff with Victor Timely was fine. The weird tension between Renslayer and Mrs. Minutes dragged it a little bit. But I think it'll be really interesting to see what becomes of these two, especially given how this episode ended.

Loki and Mobius are a ton of fun on screen together and the best part of this season so far for me. I find it interesting that Loki is just okay with working with the TVA right. Yet he's still a mischievous person. Very curious to see how his arc ends this season.

Jonathan Majors (I almost hate to admit) is really good in this. He showed quite a bit more range here. We also kind of get an origin story for Kang in this, which is cool and doesn't at all feel forced.

Acting, production and pacing are all pretty solid. Can't wait for more.

Also, not enjoying this as a total Disney geek here, I genuinely think it's good show and I'm enjoying it for what it is.

Yikes.

After a super solid start to season 2, this episode nose-dives hard; namely because of Jonathan Majors' awful acting choices as Victor Timely & the laughable chase sequences that ensue.

To date, outside of a passable turn as Kang in Quantumania, Majors has done nothing to make us truly fear for the MCU and his impending rule of it. This episode only sets him back further as his stammering take on Timely is more frustrating than intriguing to behold.

To cap it off there's a love triangle with an animated clock. It's hard to take anything serious when an animated clock with a southern accent is running amok affecting the plot and lusting after a main character.

It's just a bad episode all-around.

I enjoyed the episode but I feel like it's the same thing every week with a little hook at the end to pull over to the next one, Loki and mobius must go and find a particular thing or person to fix something in the TVA so they can go and fix something else. The formula is losing its touch a bit.

Kang was quite good, Loki's relationship with Mobius is the reason I'm still watching it's infectious, not a fan of Silvie, she is just becoming an annoying character and I'm like ugh every time she's on screen. Her high and mighty BS is getting too much, use her well or not at all, fine episode 7/10.

Though I am still not sure how we're already halfway through the season and the plot development has been slow and isn't clear what direction it is moving toward, but this episode is definitely the best of the season so far and the most engaging one.

We finally get to see Kang for the first time this season and this variant requires a bit of decent acting which Jonathan Majors delivered really well.

I'm not sure Mobius acts like Renslayer hasn't done anything wrong or as if she's not the biggest most famous criminal all of TVA must be after, and just chit-chats with her like it's nothing and has no desire to take her in whatsoever. They literally prune anybody in their timeline if they go off their designated path. A guy could go for a glass of water instead of milk one day in his kitchen and the TVA simps rush off to his world to make him disappear so the precious timeline would be safe. But they don't care that Renslayer who caused all this chaos and doomed all those people is running around scott-free? It just seems weird to me.

But probably the highlight of this episode apart from Victor Timely, is Miss Minutes. I didn't expect her to be like that in this episode and she's become the most intriguing thing this season so far, because I still don't know what the story is leading to. So the only thing so far that's interesting is to see what Miss Minutes is up to.

And although the pacing of this episode isn't as chaotic and fast-moving as the first episode, it is still way better-paced than the second episode and far more interesting and a lot happens in this episode.

So far this was the best episode of this very short season, and a lot has been set up just like the previous episodes. But so far, it is still unclear what the end goal of this season and the story is, and I hope they don't sacrifice a well-developed plot throughout the season for some cheap twist and reveal and exposition instead of letting the story naturally develop, which seems to be the case here so far.

If you have a story to tell, I'd assume that you would want to get to the point fairly quikly.

This episode however is completly devoid of any actual plot. It introduces us to some exposition, telling more than it shows, but that could've been explained in a few minutes. Instead, we get 40 minutes of chasing. Loki and his companion, Mobius search for one person, then they search for that person, then they chase a little more and that's basicall all that happens.

Little of the previous conflicts were resolved, the plot ended where it began. Instead of actually following some linear progression, the writers just introduce one random problem after the other. The plot is approaching some real end, but it never reaches it.

To be honest, i can't even remember what it was that they were trying to solve in the first place. The end of the first season suggested that someone else took over the TVA. Then Loki switched timelines within the TVA (for some reason, they never said why), then they needed to restart their time-power-generator. I don't think the writers themselves knew where to go with this.

What is this mess? Well, i'm not going to figure out. This show has made it clear that it does not value my time and doesn't expect me to remember anything for more than 20 minutes.