Loki director Kate Herron responds to the show being the most-watched MCU Disney+ series to date. The TV show became the franchise's third to hit Disney+ when it premiered in June 2021, and was well-received by both critics and fans. When Loki season 2 was confirmed in the season 1 finale, it became the first to be established as more than a miniseries.
To a certain extent, Loki was always going to be a successful venture for Marvel Studios, simply by virtue of centering on Tom Hiddleston's fan-favorite antihero, but the series had a couple key things break in its favor. WandaVision proved an enormous success for the MCU Disney+ expansion as the first show out the gate, convincing many fans of the feature films that a subscription to the streaming service would be well worth their time. Then, practically everything about the show went over well with audiences, including the performances, the mystery narrative overseen by head writer Michael Waldron, and the surprise appearance from Jonathan Majors as a variant of the franchise's next major, Thanos-esque villain: Kang the Conqueror.
While three Marvel TV shows have followed since, Kevin Feige revealed during Disney's upfronts that Loki holds their viewership record, and Herron now reacts to the exciting news on Twitter. Thanking both the filmmakers involved and those who tuned in to the episodes each week, she avoids taking any credit for the show's success, despite having directed all six of its episodes. Instead, she reminds fans that it's the result of so many people's hard work. Check out her tweet below:
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Marvel fans are lucky they showed up in record numbers to watch Loki season 1, because it arguably proved the most important Disney+ show to the larger MCU Phase 4 storyline. Through the TVA, Loki introduced both the multiverse and variants to the franchise, allowing viewers to get comfortable with these concepts before Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness dove head-first into its chaos. In fact, the Loki season 1 finale killing of He Who Remains is what kicked off the current multiverse arc, allowing Doctor Strange's No Way Home spell to go wrong.
Though rumors that Loki and Sylvie would appear in Doctor Strange 2 ended up not coming true, they clearly influenced its storyline, and their impact will continue when Majors' Kang makes his planned appearance in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Feige also revealed during upfronts that Loki season 2 filming starts in the next few weeks, with the entire cast returning, so fans won't have that long to wait until those characters are back on their screens. That said, with the next couple of years tightly planned out, it's unclear just what the MCU will look like by the time it releases.
Source: Kate Herron/Twitter
