Sophia Di Martino knows why the Marvel Studios breakout series “Loki” was so successful creatively. It was partially due to the casting. Much of it was in the writing and the direction, but mostly, it was about the dynamic between the title character, played by Tom Hiddleston, and Loki’s multiverse doppelganger, Sylvie, portrayed by Di Martino herself.

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“Some of it’s in the writing, some of it’s in what Tom does, a little bit of it’s what I do, but that it’s how these two characters rub each other up the wrong way,” Di Martino says.

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Where did franchise television go (almost immediately) wrong? Marvel television was supposed to enrich character stopgaps between blockbuster movies—a place to spend more quality time with your favorite supporting character who doesn’t get enough airtime. Disney+’s MCU TV strategy was supposed to be the salve. And while “WandaVision” did captivate viewers once it found its footing, you only need to look at Rotten Tomatoes scores for Marvel films before and after the D+ shows began to see just how much the TV shows have dragged down the originally pristine RT average.

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It’s going to be a busy year for Benedict Cumberbatch. The actor has three big movies coming out this fall and winter: Jane Campion‘s “The Power Of The Dog,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and set to make its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this week, “The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain.”

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Cumberbatch stars as Wain, the London-based artist famous for his propensity for drawing large-eyed, anthropomorphic cats.

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*Spoilers for the finale of “Loki.”*

Well, Marvel’s Disney+ series “Loki” has come to an end, and spoiler, we’re getting a season two. While the entire cast and creators played coy about whether we’d see “Loki” again and or if there would be a season two– Tom Hiddleston telling Deadline late yesterday, “I have learned, at this point, having said goodbye to the character more than twice, two and a half times maybe, to make no assumptions.

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By now you know the drill with “Loki” and its most recent reveals, there’s a Lady Loki (Sophia DiMartino) Variant, who goes by Sylvie, and Loki and she are both bisexual.

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“I remember [director] Kate [Herron]
being really passionate about it, and that she wanted that to be represented in
the show, DiMartino recently said in a Variety
interview.

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Remember all those Marvel shows that were announced for Disney+? While everyone has been obsessing over how cute that creature is in “The Mandalorian,” Marvel Studios has continued to make progress towards the multiple announced series for Disney’s streaming service. The latest news includes the casting of Sophia Di Martino to star alongside Tom Hiddleston in the upcoming “Loki” series.

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