Season 2 of the series Loki is off to a strong start on Disney+. A positive signal for Marvel, which has been struggling to generate enthusiasm lately.
Expected since 2021, season 2 of the Marvel series Loki started on Friday June 6 on Disney+, after a first episode (of eight in total). The rest of the series follows Secret Invasionbroadcast last summer and which did not really win the support of fans of the franchise. Lokihowever, has always had a special status in the hearts of aficionados: already in 2022, it was the most viewed Marvel series on the streaming platform in terms of its season 1.
The trend seems to be confirmed. For the first time in ages, a Marvel series is enjoying audience success on Disney+.
10.9 million views in 3 days
According to information from the American media Deadline, the first episode of season 2 of Loki would have accumulated 10.9 million views internationally in three days. “Views” remain a calculation that is not very transparent in the world of streaming: they are not always communicated or broadcast for the same period of time (concerning Ahsoka, for example, Disney+ communicated on a five-day window). In any case, for Disney+, we know that “views” correspond to the total views divided by the total duration of the episodes concerned.
This score propels the episode as second best ” season premiere » of the year, after that of season 3 of The Mandalorian.
It’s not just a good performance on the scale of Disney+. For the Marvel franchise, it has been a long time since a work has aroused enthusiasm to this extent. The first episode of Secret Invasion, with Samuel L. Jackson and Emilia Clarke in the cast, only had 994,000 viewers for its first episode. That of Ms Marvel for its part, only attracted 775,000 people despite its critical success.
This is a signal that could restore the image of Marvel, whose popularity of the sagas is losing steam over time. The stakes are all the more important for the MCU, or Marvel Cinematic Universe, because Loki and its multiverse prepare the ground for the next phases – 5 and 6 –, with future major films until 2027: Captain America: Brave New World, Deadpool 3, Avengers 5: The Kang Dynasty, Avengers6: Secret Wars.
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