Loki Season 2, Episode 2, “Breaking Brad,” is all-out chaos, and I’m here for it. The storytelling continues to grow and build, and they’re picking up right where they left off.

Right now they’re in search of certain signals, trying to find where Dox and her entire crew took off to. If you remember last week, they took all those bags with all of the detonators and whatnot. Nobody really knew what they were up to, but obviously it wasn’t for anything good, and they said they were going in search of Sylvie.

You find out this week they didn’t actually go in search of Sylvie. What they did was go in search of being able to cleanse timelines, with the thought process being, we’ll get her eventually. It’s a scorched earth mentality, man, and I’m telling you, I’m like, what?

Loki Gets to Flex in 1977

The episode starts with a very well-dressed duo, Loki and Mobius, and they’re in search of Hunter X-5. Come to find out he’s going by the name Brad, and he’s an actor, literally in 1977. So they go to this premiere and they encounter him, and he’s like, oh hey, what’s up guys, this and that. And then boom, he takes off and runs.

You get to see Loki really, really flex, and it was awesome. He’s literally doing what he does best, which is illusions and a little bit of sleight of hand. At one point he does this dope thing where his shadow stretches and you see these horns appear, but the him that the shadows are coming from just looks like him in the tuxedo. And then the shadows grab on to X-5. Super dope. Very cool.

Good Cop, Not So Much

At that point they drag him back, and he’s just like, look, I don’t know what all this is about, I don’t know why you guys care. He tells Loki off, basically telling him about himself, and then he tells Mobius off. Mobius is supposed to be the good cop. Not so much.

“Until you wake up, you’re just a nowhere man.”

It’s one of those moments where you’re just like, man, they are in rough shape.

They get a TemPad off him, too. Dude had a special kind of TemPad that obviously has been modified. Now, he’s saying it’s modified so that the TVA cannot track him. I don’t think that’s the case, and neither do Loki and the guys.

Ouroboros Wrote the Manual

Especially after they take an opportunity and go visit Ouroboros, who’s currently working on the problem of the Loom, the time Loom, this big giant issue. They hand him the thing and they’re like, can you help us with this? And he literally says to them, what’s more important, this or this?

And they’re like, well, clearly making sure the Loom doesn’t break and we don’t have a massive problem, that’s more important. He goes, okay, cool, here’s the manual I wrote, go figure this out. I wrote all about this thing here. And you’re like, oh, okay, that makes total sense.

So as they’re messing with it, you come to find out that Rutherford, sorry, Eugene Cordero, who plays one of the TVA agents, happens to be the guy. It’s so funny. He reminds me of those little heaven secretary guys from Dragon Ball Z, the early seasons of Dragon Ball Z. You’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. He really does. But come to find out he’s read Ouroboros’s book, and so he’s like, no, it really doesn’t do that, it does this other thing. He really tries to help them sort out what it is that it’s doing.

Bad Loki

Once they figure that out, they know things are going to get really bad. So they stop playing good cop, bad cop, and they just go bad Loki.

Loki drags in this really cool machine, again keeping in the aesthetic they built, which is this really amazing puke green and taupe and the neon lights and the whole nine yards. At first Brad’s like, yeah, no, you’re not intimidating me. And Loki’s like, oh really? Well, hang on. And he breaks this chair by accident.

It generates what looks like a cube. The cube reminds me of the doors. It’s that almost gel, clear, liquidy force field thing. And then he traps Brad inside it. Brad, who had been talking trash all this time. Check out the big brain on Brad. He’s trying to talk trash, and sure enough he gets stuck in the thing, and he finally tells them. We found Sylvie. I just went to go live my life. I don’t care.

Why Brad Is Nervous

So they go where he sends them. Loki walks in, he runs into Sylvie, and they go have a conversation. Mobius and Brad are having a talk while the Lokis are talking, and finally Mobius, who’s not stupid, realizes Brad’s nervous for a reason.

Come to find out this is a branch timeline that Sylvie has settled in, and he knows the plan. That’s what he reveals. That’s the reason he wants to get back to where he’s supposed to be on the sacred timeline.

They go back to the TVA to find out that there actually is a home base for all of this. Dox and her crew, they’re just pruning timelines. That’s it. Just indiscriminately. So they get there, there’s this massive fight, and they ultimately manage to stop this massive set of just wholesale pruning. Or, as I believe Hunter B-15 said, “Mobius, they’re killing millions. Take Dox down now.”

And she’s not wrong.

Loki and Sylvie

The conversation between Loki and Sylvie is tense. It’s super tense. I mean, last time we saw them, Sylvie kicked him through a portal and then killed He Who Remains.

She pretty much is like, look, I’m happy, I don’t want to be involved in any of that. She’s really trying to just get lost, because everything got too big, and now she realizes that all she really wanted was something small and simple. She’s kind of burned out her vengeance.

It All Runs Through Renslayer

When they get back to the TVA, they get to see all the damage that was done by Dox and her people before they arrested them and brought them back. So we’re very much at a place where they have to figure out what’s going down, why it’s going down this way, and ultimately how to fix it.

All of that begins with Renslayer. They have to find Renslayer, period. And as bad as everything seems, Eugene Cordero’s character manages to point out that, hey, I have a lock on Renslayer’s signal. That’s where they’re going to have to go.

So it’s getting intense. I’m down for it. I think the third episode is going to be amazing.

The Verdict

Loki Season 2, Episode 2 is a 9 out of 10 on the Know-It-All Index.

This was a really fun one. I like the story that’s moving forward, and to me this was a solid 9 out of 10. I’m all about it. Good job, Marvel. I appreciate you guys. Second episode is a winner, so let’s keep up the good work.

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