‘Loki’ Director Breaks Down Jonathan Majors’ First Episode of the Season, Designing the 1893 World’s Fair and More

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Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses a few plot developments in Season 2, Episode 3 of “Loki,” currently streaming on Disney+.

While working as the production designer on Season 1 of Marvel Studios‘ “Loki” — in which Tom Hiddleston’s god of mischief became embroiled with a vast bureaucratic organization know as the Time Variance Authority — Kasra Farahani realized that he was having a greater influence on the storytelling than usual. “We just had this really good feedback going on where there were some things in the scripts that were a little bit more vague and we’d define them in the art department,” Farahani tells Variety. “Basically, we had an elegant and fortunate collaboration between the world building that we were doing in the art department and the writing team and with Kate Herron, our brilliant director on Season 1.” Farahani’s contributions to the show became so significant that for Season 2, executive producer Kevin Wright and head writer Eric Martin asked him to be a part of the writers’ room — and, eventually, to direct the third episode of the season. “It was a joy for me to be involved on that kind of really grassroots, blue sky moment in inventing the ideas that would come to define the arc of the season.

And it led to Kevin suggesting that I direct one of the episodes, which blew my mind and was such a great opportunity.” The episode also marks the debut of Jonathan Majors as Victor Timely — one of the infinite variants of Kang who are meant to be the central villains of the current arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.