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This weeks episode is quite handily the best of the season, even if it serves a recursive function.

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Last week ended on an explosive cliffhanger, with the Time Loom exploding and everything flashing to white.

Its an impactful re-introduction that sells Lokis isolation with each echoing footstep.

may as well echo the sentiments of viewers who would rather the show moved in any direction but backward.

Hunter B-15 is a New York doctor in 2012.

Casey is a prison inmate escaping Alcatraz in 1962.

Ouroboros is a failing Pasadena sci-fi writer in 1994.

He has a family, or at least he did.

However, when Loki begins convincing Mobius to help, the scene takes its time.

Yeah, but I will, Mobius responds in one of the more heartbreaking moments in the series.

feels difficult, even if his departure somehow means ensuring his sons will live.

before going back on this equally suddenly, and its not the most compelling dilemma either.

It turns out the real-time travel was the friends we made along the way.

Low-key Moments

Caseys accomplices on Alcatraz are none other than the directors Benson and Moorhead.

As always, Natalie Holts score remains unimpeachable.

Finally, a Marvel show forPrimerfans.