Nearly lost in the flurry of major Marvel Studios announcements at Comic-Con International in San Diego was a release window for the second season of Loki.
Studio President Kevin Feige revealed the Disney+ series will return in summer 2023, as part of a Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Five slate that also includes What If...? Season 2, Secret Invasion, Echo, Ironheart, the WandaVision spinoff Agatha: Coven of Darkness, and Daredevil: Born Again. That takes the MCU's streaming lineup into early 2024.
Premiering in June 2021 on Disney+, Loki's six-episode first season picked up where Avengers: Endgame's time heist left off, with an alternate version of Tom Hiddleston's trickster from 2012 disappearing with the Tesseract. He's immediately apprehended by the bureaucraticTime Variance Authority, and forced to make a choice: Either be erased from existence, or help the organization to stop a threat to the Sacred Timeline.
The series introduced multiple characters that became immediate fan favorites, including Own Wilson as TVA Agent Mobius M. Mobius, Sophia D. Martino as Sylvie, Tara Strong as Miss Minutes, and a bevy of other Loki variants: Jack Veal as Kid Loki, DeObia Oparei as Boastful Loki, Richard Grant as Classic Loki, and Alligator Loki. The season finale also featured the surprise debut of Jonathan Majors as He Who Remains, ahead of his announced role as Kang the Conqueror in 2023's Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.
Loki Was Originally Planned as a Limited Series
Although Loki was announced as a limited series, producer Nate Moore teased ahead of its Disney+ release that, "I think there's a lot of storytelling in Loki that's really irreverent and clever and cool, but also lends itself to multiple seasons in a way where it’s not a one-off." The announcement of a second season arrived in a mid-credits card of the Season 1 finale.
Loki Season 1 was a hit with viewers and critics alike, with a 91-percent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a Tomatometer score of 92 percent. The series was nominated for six Creative Arts Emmy Awards and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), among other honors.
Loki's second season began filming in June at Pinewood Studios outside of London. Season 1 stars Hiddleston, Wilson and DiMartino are already confirmed to return. However, series creator Michael Waldron (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) will be succeeded as head writer by Eric Martin (Heels).
Source: Marvel