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Color Page 2 • Terre Haute Tribune-Star • October 1 - 7, 2023 We've all done the time warp and explored the multiverse, but it's high time to sort out the timeline. A brand- new season of "Loki" premieres Friday, Oct. 6, on Disney+. Tom Hiddleston ("The Essex Serpent") returns as the God of Mischief, everyone's favorite troublemaker, Loki, who has developed a mysterious problem this season. Owen Wilson ("Haunted Mansion," 2023) is back as Mobius M. Mobius, the Time Variance Authority agent tasked with helping Loki right his wrongs across the multiverse. The first season of "Loki" saw the Norse God meet his match in an alternate version of himself. Sophia Di Martino ("The Electrical Life of Louis Wain," 2021) is Sylvie, a variant of Loki who interrupts the Sacred Timeline. After coming to- gether to set things right across space and time, Loki returned to what he thought would be the TVA headquar- ters he left before his mission, but something still wasn't right. In the official trailer for the upcom- ing season, Mobius brings Loki to a repair shop of sorts, manned by TVA repair guy OB, portrayed by Ke Huy Quan ("American Born Chinese"). Be- fore the pair have time to explain what's brought them there, Loki suddenly, uncontrollably disappears in a timeslip, leaving Mobius looking to OB for an answer. "It's impossible to timeslip in the TVA," is all he can say, though they just watched it happen. "Loki" executive producer Kevin Wright told Entertainment Weekly in September that "[OB's] job is basically every piece of tech, every computer, every thing that is running at the TVA. ... He either designed it or he fixes it and keeps it running." Having recently picked up an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2022's "Everything Everywhere All At Once," Quan is well suited to help repair another multiverse. While Quan's character is the latest to join Loki's crew as he chases chaos across the multiverse, several cast mem- bers return for the new season, includ- ing Gugu Mbatha-Raw ("Surface") as Ravonna Renslayer, an ambitious judge in the TVA who oversees Loki's case. Literally backing up Loki at one point in the season's trailer alongside Mobi- us, Sylvie and OB is Wunmi Mosaku ("We Own This City") as Hunter B-15. Eugene Cordero ("Star Trek: Lower Decks") returns as Hunter K-5E, for- mer TVA receptionist. The upcoming seasons also star Neil Ellice ("Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn") as Hunter D-90, Jonathan Majors ("Creed III," 2023) as He Who Remains and Tara Strong ("Teen Titans Go!") as the voice of Miss Minutes. Rafael Casal ("Blindspotting"), Kate Dickie ("Annika") and Liz Carr ("Silent Witness") all join the cast this season in as-yet-unnamed roles. Odd couple Mobius and Loki un- surprisingly have different approaches to their world-saving mission spanning space and time. While the former ad- mits in the "Loki" teaser trailer that he prefers his "slow, deliberate, cerebral approach" honed by years in the bu- reaucracy of the TVA, while the Norse god is "a man of action, which is fine." Unconvincing, given Loki is the source of the destruction that they are trying to stave off. While Disney has remained charac- teristically tight-lipped about the new season of "Loki" ahead of its premiere, Mbatha-Raw promised in a December 2022 interview with Entertainment Tonight that fans "are gonna be in for a real treat because the show is bolder and more surreal." She added that the upcoming season "goes to some bigger, bolder places than Season 1, which is really exciting." Wright promised some- thing similar in his September EW in- terview, saying, "We made a weird show [in Season 1], and people responded to how weird it was ... so, we wanted to push it further." coverstory BY SARAH PASSINGHAM Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston in "Loki" Beyond time and space: 'Loki' returns with uncontrollable powers Directed by Herbert Ross, Neil Simon's delightful 1977 romantic comedy "The Goodbye Girl" — which Turner Classic Movies shows Sunday, Oct. 1 — started out as a different project, but morphed into this highly enter- taining tale casting Marsha Mason (the writer's then-wife) as a single mother forced to share a New York apartment with a brash actor (Richard Dreyfuss) who initially gets on her nerves. That's actually putting it mildly, but things eventually warm up between them after a long series of fits and starts. Dreyfuss won an Academy Award for his performance, capitalizing on the screen persona he had made known through his successes in "American Graf- fiti" and "Jaws," and he has considerable fun spoofing the acting profession as his character appears in a show-within-the-show. Also a vital cast member is Quinn Cummings as Mason's wiser-than-her-years young daughter. The hit theme song is performed by David Gates, who was a member of the pop group Bread. Marsha Mason and Richard Dreyfuss in "The Goodbye Girl" Hello again to "The Goodbye Girl" classiccorner BY JAY BOBBIN "Wedding Crashers" (Hulu, streaming): Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have had comedy successes separately, but they were particularly potent at the box office as a duo in this genuinely funny 2005 comedy. They play pals who make a habit of – you guessed it – crashing weddings and making temporary love connections there, but ladies they meet at one event (portrayed by Rachel McAdams and Isla Fisher) give them thoughts of forming more permanent relationships. Bradley Cooper, Jane Seymour and Christopher Walken also are quite amusing in supporting roles. "Crossing Jordan" (Start TV, Sunday, Oct. 1): After her run on "Law & Order," Jill Hennessy took the central role as an earthy Boston forensic [pathologist in this mystery-drama series. The early episode "The Ties That Bind" takes Jordan to a prison to investigate a woman's death that evidently has connections there; Miguel Ferrer, Ken Howard and Kathryn Hahn also star. more retro rewinds