Finally, The Timekeepers – Loki Episode 4 Review
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In order to provide a contextual review within the season, this review will contain spoilers from Loki Episode 1, Episode 2, and Episode 3 but not the end of Episode 4.
Loki Episode 4, “The Nexus Event”, has the fireworks, including one of the most rapidly departing branches from the Sacred Timeline in history, betrayal, deceit, pruning with the disintegration sticks, and… the Time-Keepers!
We open with a flashback to a younger Judge Ravonna Renslayer (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who does phenomenally, especially in this episode), who was still a TVA agent. She brings in a young, Asgardian girl, who steals her TemPad and escapes. This girl was Sylvie. From that point, Sylvie lives on the run, causing a nexus event everywhere she goes because she isn’t supposed to exist, until she realizes that she can hide in impending apocalypses, which isn’t too much better. That life brings her to where we are in the series.
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Telling Loki about herself and opening up, the two variants grow closer and touch hands. This immediately triggers a new branch from the Sacred Timeline that allows Owen Wilson’s Mobius and other agents to find Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) and take them back to the TVA.
The two are held separately, and Mobius tries to talk with Loki. After numerous lies, Loki offers the genuine warning from what he has recently learned, TVA agents had human lives before they were agents and were not created by the Time-Keepers. Mobius laughs it off before sending Loki to a time loop prison, where we are treated with a cameo from the Thor films.
Mobius tells Wunmi Mosaku’s Hunter B-15 about Loki’s warning, and she is clearly caught off guard. She starts to question everything after speaking with Sylvie. Similarly, after a bit more convincing from Loki, Mobius becomes suspicious of Ravonna and her potential part in this conspiracy.
Everything that has been established starts to come together in “The Nexus Event”. Mobius and Loki have a true friendship that leads to trust. Loki and Sylvie clearly care for each other. It’s fitting for a narcissist like Loki to have such deep feelings for themself from another timeline, which Mobius exasperatedly highlights. This episode brings action, twists, the Time-Keepers, and deeper questions about the mystery that is the TVA.
Be sure to stick around for a very exciting mid-credit scene.
8/10
