Phase 4 - The Blip & The Multiverse (2021 - 2022) · MCU timeline #45
Loki (Season 1)
- runtime with credits
- 5h
- release date
- June 9, 2021
- #114 in release order
- #45 timeline
- TV series
- Essential
Why it is here
The 2012 Loki variant escapes with the Tesseract and gets recruited by a bureaucracy that guards time itself. The show that rebuilt the MCU rules into the multiverse era.
How to watch it
Required viewing before anything multiverse. Marvel put it on the official Doomsday list; we agree with them.
What it sets up
Show spoilers for Loki (Season 1)
The TVA is staffed by variants, Sylvie kills He Who Remains, and the timeline branches into the Sacred Timeline collapse. This is the engine of everything after.
Position in the MCU timeline
8d 2m of Marvel screen time comes before this. Another 5d 6h 22m follows it in this sequence. It sits inside Phase 4 - The Blip & The Multiverse, alongside everything else released in 2021.
Where to stream it
Currently on Disney+. Availability shifts by region; our data notes say when this was last checked.
Viewers rate it 8.2/10 across 12,561 votes on TMDB.
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Where does Loki (Season 1) fit in the Marvel timeline?
Position #45 in the MCU timeline, inside Phase 4 - The Blip & The Multiverse (2021 - 2022). It is #114 in factual release order.
Is Loki (Season 1) essential watching?
Yes. The main timeline does not work without it.
How long is Loki (Season 1)?
5h including credits.