Loki Review (Episode 1): What Is It About?
Remember when Hulk wasn’t allowed in a lift because of ‘maximum capacity’, so he took the stairs only to smash the exit door, helping Loki (Tom Hiddleston) grab the Tesseract (yes, that Blue cube thing) & vanish in another timeline. Where did he go? He landed straight into his debut solo series, which is now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
After vanishing with the Tesseract, Loki transports to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, where the soldiers of Time Variance Authority (TVA) arrest him. This is a place not only different from all the timelines that exist but also is the one ruling them all. It has ‘time keepers’ who keep a check on all the timelines so no one should break them to result in a multiverse war. They use infinity stones as their paperweight, no kidding.
What qualities do we possess to justify our being called human beings, or people with the right values? Questions raised by two of the shows reviewed here. And a blue collar detective series that truly shines.
Sweet Tooth (Netflix USA) – Based on DC source material written by Jeff Lemire, this 8-episode Limited Series drops on Netflix on June 4th, and it’s an imaginative, involving adaptation, punctuated by impressive acting from our young protagonist, Gus. Christian Convery plays Gus, a deer-boy, one of the hybrids that sprouted out of nowhere during a global viral pandemic. It’s how the series opens, and as can be expected, the parallels to what is going on now in terms of COVID, stares us in the face. But what this fantasy narrative does quite excellently, is turn this medical crisis on its head, to become a story of trenchant social commentary. At its heart, it’s about our fear of the unique and/or different; and how our knee jerk reaction is to demonize these beings.