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October 2 - 8, 2023 Page 3 By Sarah Passingham We've all done the time warp and explored the multiverse, but it's high time to sort out the timeline. A brand-new season of "Loki" premieres Friday, Oct. 6, on Dis- ney+. Tom Hiddleston ("The Essex Serpent") returns as the God of Mischief, everyone's favorite trouble- maker, Loki, who has developed a mysterious problem this season. Owen Wilson ("Haunted Mansion," 2023) is back as Mobi- us M. Mobius, the Time Variance Authority agent tasked with help- ing Loki right his wrongs across the multiverse. The first season of "Loki" saw the Norse God meet his match in an alternate version of himself. Sophia Di Martino ("The Electrical Life of Louis Wain," 2021) is Sylvie, a variant of Loki who interrupts the Sacred Timeline. After coming together to set things right across space and time, Loki returned to what he thought would be the TVA headquarters he left before his mission, but something still wasn't right. In the official trailer for the up- coming season, Mobius brings Loki to a repair shop of sorts, manned by TVA repair guy OB, portrayed by Ke Huy Quan ("American Born Chinese"). Before the pair have time to explain what's brought them there, Loki suddenly, uncontrollably disappears in a timeslip, leaving Mo- bius looking to OB for an answer. "It's impossible to timeslip in the TVA," is all he can say, though they just watched it happen. "Loki" executive producer Kevin Wright told Entertainment Weekly in September that "[OB's] job is basically every piece of tech, every computer, every thing that is running at the TVA. ... He either designed it or he fixes it and keeps it running." Having recently picked up an Academy Award for Best Sup- porting Actor in 2022's "Everything Everywhere All At Once," Quan is well suited to help repair another multiverse. Across 1. Peppa et al., in children's TV, e.g. 5. Flit 8. University founder cornell 12. Rings 13. cuckoo bird 14. Lost power 15. Something to follow 16. Shade of gray 17. Reply to "That so?" 18. Star of "Only Murders In The building" 21. Setting for the TV shows "The Manhunter" and "Napoleon Dynamite" 22. Kang or Kodos of "The Simpsons" 26. Selena who stars in "Only Murders In The building" 31. Poison ivy cousin 32. Logan Roy to Greg Hirsch on "Succession" 33. conductor's pages 34. "Who's there?" response 35. Pokes (around) 39. Star of "Only Murders In The building" 45. Agree 46. Realty unit 47. "The ___" (Joy behar's show) 49. Rights grp. 50. Female in a pasture 51. Setting for the TV show "Sister Wives" 52. blubber 53. Add color to 54. Staff note Down 1. Sports stat. 2. Markers 3. "True ___" 4. Webmaster's creation 5. Looked (at) 6. Jung's inner self 7. Washington of the blues 8. Polish language? 9. Tubes on the table 10. bit attachment 11. Super bowl highlights? 19. Price of horror films 20. Rascally 22. Obnoxious sort 23. Jean-__ Picard: "Star Trek: TNG" captain 24. Viewpoint intro on the Web 25. Audience 27. Neighbor of Que. 28. Some hosts, for short 29. Shade provider 30. Alphabet ender 36. Fixed a squeaky wheel 37. Very white 38. cosmetician Lauder 39. Squeakers 40. Accomplished 41. Start another hitch 42. Female egg 43. Initiation, e.g. 44. Lions, Tigers, or bears, e.g. 45. Gossip 48. Doctor ___ (TV time-traveler) CoverStory Beyond time and space: 'Loki' returns with uncontrollable powers Solution is on page 2. Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston in "Loki"

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