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Loki Season 2 Episode 4 (Disney+): Almost certainly episode five will be a time loop as Loki, Sylvie, OB, and Mobius try to undo the calamity caused by the destruction of the temporal loom. It is interesting that Victor Timely died, not that he didn’t make it through the episode but more that he appeared in two of the six on this show instead of showcasing more variants. Miss Minutes is shaping up to be a formidable threat and is genuinely unsettling and it will be interesting to see how she dovetails back in with the Kang threat and if this will relate to Deadpool 3.
Doom Patrol Season 4 Episode 10 (Streaming Service): It’s good that Cyborg is getting some chance to shine in the home stretch of this show considering he has had very little to do up until this point. Over the run of Doom Patrol, he has had some of the more interesting character work and Joivan Wade has the acting abilities to carry it off. As the show enters its final few episodes, they do the smart thing and remind the viewers of the stakes for the finale and it will be interesting to see how everything ties back together.
Invincible Season 2 Part I* (Amazon Prime): After a long wait, season two of Invincible finally arrives on November 3rd. The first half of the new season has the heart and the brutality that viewers would expect from this show and uses some tropes that have become more commonplace in superhero media lately without feeling stale. That said, some of the plot threads introduced may not be as fleshed out as well as they could have been over the first four episodes, however, these may be handled in the second half coming in early 2024.
This Week In Theaters:
The Marsh King’s Daughter: Star Wars alums Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn star in this adaptation of Karen Dionne’s novel from 2017 in which a woman has to grapple with her past after her estranged father who kept her and her mother in captivity escapes from prison.
What Happens Later: Meg Ryan and David Duchovny star in this romantic comedy that follows two exes who revisit their past after being stranded in an airport. Meg Ryan also directs and makes her first acting appearance since 2015.
Last Week At The Box Office:
Five Nights at Freddy’s: $78.0 Million
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: $14.7 Million
Killers of the Flower Moon: $9.0 Million
After Death: $5.1 Million
The Exorcist: Believer: $3.1 Million
Programming Notes:
With the SAG strike still ongoing (however there are indications a deal could be coming soon), Disney has announced the delay of a few titles coming in the near future. Magazine Dreams, the acclaimed Sundance feature starring Jonathan Majors that was previously slated for release on December 8th, has been removed from the slate entirely with no indication as to when it will be released. The live-action remake Snow White starring West Side Story and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star Rachel Zegler and Wonder Woman’s Gal Godot has been delayed to March 21st, 2025 from March 22nd, 2024. Pixar’s new original movie Elio has similarly been delayed over a year from March 1st, 2024 to June 13th, 2025. As for Deadpool 3 which now stands as one of Disney’s only major theatrical releases in the first half of the year (along with Inside Out 2 in June and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes in late May), things are still up in the air, however a decision will likely be made shortly as Disney will want to attach a trailer for whatever the next Marvel Studios project is coming next (either Deadpool 3 or Captain America: Brave New World) to The Marvels coming out on November 10th.
*Review screeners for the first half of Invincible season two were provided by Amazon at no cost for review purposes. This review is spoiler-free in advance of its full release on November 3rd.
