Main cast: Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Sophia Di Martino (Sylvie), Wunmi Mosaku (Hunter B-15), Eugene Cordero (Casey), Rafael Casal (Hunter X-5/Brad Wolfe), Kate Dickie (General Dox), Neil Ellice (Hunter D-90), Ke Huy Quan (OB), and Owen Wilson (Mobius)
Director: Dan DeLeeuw
Breaking Bad is a plodding filler episode.
Perhaps it’s because director Dan DeLeeuw is inexperienced, as he seems to have been plucked from the existing filming crew to direct this thing because they ran out of money to hire an actual director, as the pacing of the episode drags and it takes what seems like forever to get to a point. By the time it does get there, there are only about five minutes left in the episode, so cheers to that.
Maybe it’s the script, as there is hardly any urgency except during scenes that are supposed to be heart-stopping or dire because the whole thing jaunts along like a sitcom. This episode is written by the same bloke involved in the first season, so maybe the magic is gone.
Anyway, Loki and Mobius look for Sylvie, because Loki can’t get laid otherwise and, contrary to the opinion of those people that write scary stories of Loki injecting his timeline into Mobius, he’s not going to get any from the other guy.
Along the way, they bump into rogue agent Hunter X-5, who is now an actor called Brad Wolfe in 1977 London. Unlike in the comics that had Brad being a possessed serial killer, this one just run around quite a bit, a plot device to remind me that Loki actually has powers. How do they say it? Meh.
After eating up enough screen time with Brad, Loki and Mobius then eat away more screen time at a dining table, mostly in silence. Maybe there is some hidden artistry to that scene, but sadly, I’m too plebeian to grasp such genius.
Finally, after finding Sylvie, they learn that there are “bad” TVA agents out there pruning unapproved timelines, leading Hunter B-15 to look at the screen and cry “These are people!” in a flat dead manner that makes me laugh. That is the first time I’m even a little amused, and that’s about it.
This episode seems to be more interested in serving up scenes that can be TikTok’ed or YouTube Shorts’ed, instead of being an actual episode, and I don’t know if this is by design or the result of incompetence.
Seriously, 90 seconds of Loki and Owen quietly eating pie?
Sigh. Is there anything anymore that is decent to watch in the MCU?
