Main cast: Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Sophia Di Martino (Sylvie), Wunmi Mosaku (Hunter B-15), Eugene Cordero (Casey), Rafael Casal (Hunter X-5), Kate Dickie (General Dox), Liz Carr (Judge Gamble), Neil Ellice (Hunter D-90), Ke Huy Quan (OB), and Owen Wilson (Mobius)
Directors: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

So, after the finale of the first season, Loki finds himself in a futuristic timeline that is different from the one he came from. Mobius doesn’t remember him and the Minute Men are all after Loki.

So, our hero dives off the building and crashes onto the back of a flying cab. Alas, the driver isn’t Korben Dallas, so I won’t be headed straight into a much more exciting story.

Oh wait, now he is zapped into his old timeline again. What is happening now?

Meanwhile, poor Mobius and B-15 are wondering how to clean up the mess left behind by Loki and Sylvie at the TVA. They both know the truth about the TVA, but while B-15 wants to just tell everyone else in the TVA, Mobius cautions that these people may not appreciate being told that everything they know and has done is a lie.

Then, General Dox and Judge Gamble charge in to find out what exactly happened during the TVA dustup, and let’s just say that everyone is stunned when a raving Loki shows up to reveal that He Who Was is the guy that started the whole TVA for his own sinister purposes.

Ouroboros is a difficult episode to give a proper synopsis of, because it’s just… scenes.

This episode picks up directly from the previous episode from about two years ago, and there are many messes to clean up. Loki wants to look for Sylvie. B-15 and Mobius want a solution on how they and the TVA can move on to a better direction and place, but their superiors may have other ideas.

Since there are no answers or resolutions in sight yet, this is therefore an episode that serves to get people to stay in their seats and wait for the next episode.

Mind you, it’s get to get excited because Jonathan Majors’s legal problems are making Disney get super cold feet—is it too late for him to come out as non-binary?—and the hilarious crumbling of the MCU is rumored to be making the people behind the destruction of the multi-billion dollar franchise in just a space of a few years want to just scrap the Kang arc and bank their hopes on a new beautiful reboot of everything.

Therefore, there is a real possibility that everything that happens in this episode will be irrelevant… but then again, the MCU is now irrelevant anyway, so whatever. I’ll just stick around and see where this train, so to speak, brings me.

On the bright side, the bromance between Loki and Mobius is still fun to watch, and Hunter B-15 gets her time to shine too, which is nice. This episode has some nice visuals, too, and the humor doesn’t feel forced like most of the recent MCU output.

I know, the previous paragraph feels like faint praise, but then again, it’s hard for me to muster the enthusiasm for MCU these days. I mean, Disney isn’t paying me to be a shill, so I’m not contractually obligated to scream at everyone’s faces that the MCU is back. In fact, my enthusiasm has been heavily deadened by the relentless sludge of mediocrity to brainless crap that gushed out of Disney’s rear orifice non-stop in these few years.

The best thing I can say, therefore, is that I ain’t mad, and I’m happy to give this season a try. I did like the previous season, after all, barring the anticlimactic finale, so who knows. Maybe, maybe, this season may turn out just fine.