Yeah, that's probably it for Loki
Marvel hasn't made an official ruling, but star Tom Hiddleston is doing a whole lot of "full circle" talk about the Disney+ series
Although Marvel hasn’t said anything official yet, it’s sounding increasingly likely that the just-concluded second season of Disney+ TV series Loki will be its last. Both star Tom Hiddleston and series writer Eric Martin have given statements to press surrounding the show’s just-released second-season finale, expressing a sense of finality toward the story of a time-tossed version of the beloved Marvel villain, and his encounters with the mysterious Time Variance Authority.
Take, for instance, comments Hiddleston made on The Tonight Show last night, telling Jimmy Fallon and his audience that the show’s finale isn’t just the end of two seasons of TV, but “a conclusion to six films, and 12 episodes, and 14 years of my life.” Which sounds like the sorts of thing you say when you’re not necessarily fielding too many requests to put the horns back on and give another speech about “glorious purpose,” right?
Meanwhile, Martin, who’s both an executive producer and head writer for the series, gave an interview to CinemaBlend last week that, again, didn’t explicitly say “We’re absolutely not doing a third season,” but implied it about as much as it’s possible to. “We approached this as like two halves of a book,” Martin said. “Season one, first half. Season two, we close the book on Loki and the TVA. Where it goes beyond that, I don’t know. I just wanted to tell a full and complete story across those two seasons.”
That’s before we get into the text of the episode itself, which, without getting into spoilers, pretty effectively concludes the story of Loki (in a way that this reviewer, at least, found surprisingly satisfying). There’s also the fact that Loki getting a second season was a pretty weird outlier in the first place; Disney+ has always treated its Marvel shows more like miniseries than traditional TV, doing six-episode limited runs. Loki is the only one to have actually received a second season to date, even if the Moon Knight fans are still sniffing around for a possible continuation, and Kathryn Hahn’s WandaVision spin-off is still in the works.