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September 30 - October 6, 2023 3 We've all done the time warp and explored the multi- verse, 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 prob- lem 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 together to set things right across space and time, Loki returned to what he thought would be the TVA headquarters he left before his mission, but something still wasn't right. In the official trailer for the upcoming season, Mobius brings Loki to a repair shop of sorts, manned by TVA repair guy OB, portrayed by Ke Huy Quan ("American Born Chi- nese"). Before the pair have time to explain what's brought them there, Loki suddenly, uncontrollably disappears in a timeslip, leaving Mobius look- ing 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 Entertain- ment Weekly in September that "[OB's] job is basically every piece of tech, every com- puter, every thing that is run- ning at the TVA. ... He either designed it or he fixes it and keeps it running." Having re- cently picked up an Academy Award for Best Supporting Ac- tor in 2022's "Everything Ev- erywhere 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, including Gugu Mbatha- Raw ("Surface") as Ravonna Renslayer, an ambitious judge in the TVA who oversees Lo- ki's case. Literally backing up Loki at one point in the sea- son's trailer alongside Mobius, Sylvie and OB is Wunmi Mo- saku ("We Own This City") as Hunter B-15. Eugene Cordero ("Star Trek: Lower Decks") re- turns as Hunter K-5E, former TVA receptionist. The upcoming seasons also star Neil Ellice ("Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn") as Hunter D-90, Jonathan Ma- jors ("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 unsurprisingly have different approaches to their world-saving mission spanning space and time. While the former admits in the "Loki" teaser trailer that he prefers his "slow, deliberate, cerebral approach" honed by years in the bureaucracy of the TVA, while the Norse god is "a man of action, which is fine." Un- convincing, given Loki is the source of the destruction that they are trying to stave off. While Disney has remained characteristically 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 bold- er and more surreal." She add- ed that the upcoming season "goes to some bigger, bolder places than Season 1, which is really exciting." Wright promised something similar in his September EW interview, saying, "We made a weird show [in Season 1], and people responded to how weird it was ... so, we wanted to push it further." 2 x 2" ad A&W coverstory BY SARAH PASSINGHAM Beyond time and space: 'Loki' returns with uncontrollable powers Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston in "Loki" 507-779-7668 Located at the River Hills Mall Mon-Sat 11-8 Sunday 11-6 Falls favorite flavor is back for a limited time!

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