Isn’t it convenient when a Marvel TV show unintentionally summarizes the broader issues afflicting its larger universe? In Season 2 of “Loki,” Tom Hiddleston’s villain-turned-hero has done everything possible to stop the universe from coming undone only to witness his friends from the Time Variance Authority spontaneously spaghettify — and that’s a real astrophysical concept, by the way — moments before he can save them or anyone else.
Guiding his efforts in this second season, along with Owen Wilson’s Mobius, is Ke Huy Quan’s Ouroboros, the nerdy brainiac running the TVA’s Repairs and Advancement Department. Summing up everything that has happened since the premiere would barely make sense, but that's not really necessary. All you need to know is that in the season’s penultimate episode “Science/Fiction,” when Loki encounters a version of Quan’s O.B. – who is a writer as well as a scientist – O.B. explains the difference between scientific theory and speculative storytelling, i.e. Marvel's bread and butter.
