The new Loki series has been engagingly all over the shop. The retro-future look of the TVA was great and then I wholeheartedly agree that it felt like the writers and actors all created their version of Doctor Who. The penultimate episode seemed to strike a balance between the epic, the comic and the mythological.

The final episode though? Mostly I agree with this Polygon article. The logical villain would have been another Loki variant that reflected and contrasted the protagonists. After five episodes it was just hard to care about some character we’d only just met expositing for half an hour.

I met the reveal of Season 2 with a bit of a sigh, given the complete misfire in this episode is there any guarantee that it is going to be the same thing for the next Season, a bold opening to a unsatisfactory bucking of narrative demands.