1893

An episode of two halves. It opens with a fine ragtime version of the Marvel fanfare.

Loki and Mobius arrive at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 and meet a variant of Kang. He is Victor Timely posing as an inventor and scamming potential investors with futuristic gadgets.

All because back in 1868, Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) jumped back to find Miss Minutes in Chicago. A contingency plan was formed by Kang in case he died. They would give a young Victor Timely a handbook on how to create and run the TVA. He just does not realise the full impact of the handbook yet.

All this makes Loki and Mobius's job difficult to bring Victor Timely to the TVA in order to fix things. Even more so when Sylvie arrives to destroy all of Kang's variants.

Finally the third episode is getting in to the real story for the second season. Jonathan Majors gets something major to do as Timely.

Then it becomes an episode where Miss Minutes and Ravonna Renslayer fight for Timely's affections. It weakened the story and lacked impact.

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.

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.

Absolutely incredible. Easily my favorite episode so far. Jonathon Majors delivers an incredible performance as Victor Timley, Miss Minutes goes absolutely wild (in a phenomenal way), the direction is great, the cinematography is beautiful, and the story is awesome. Some personal favorite scenes were Mobious and Loki seamlessly transition between isn't Chicago 1868 and 1893, Slyvies conversation with Timely at the end of the episode, and Miss Minutes - let's just say being a little freaky with Timely. Such a crazy and unexpected episode that worked in every way. The music was incredible as usual, I particularly loved the opening credits music. Also the ending of the episode has me wanting to create a Time Machine and teleport to the future so I can watch episode 4 already. So good.

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.