Podcast: The MCU Diaries: Essays On Marvel Television

The Multiverse Of Madness Moral Debt: The Bill Comes Due, Always

Doctor Strange is the saga’s multiverse spine because Marvel keeps rewarding his control… then charging him for it. This entry tracks the receipts that make a Doom alliance feel inevitable instead of random.

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MCU Diaries Emergency Entry: Spider-Man: Brand New Day — When the Mask Becomes Skin

The first Brand New Day trailer works because it turns Peter Parker’s erased identity into a physical problem. This is a Spider-Man story where the mask starts consuming the man, and that gives Marvel a real clock again.

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MCU Diaries Entry 2: Secret Wars Explained (As a Story Engine) — Loki Season 1 Is The Match

Secret Wars isn’t a multiverse encyclopedia — it’s a story engine built on pressure, impossible choice, and irreversible consequence. Loki Season 1 is the cleanest on-screen blueprint for how that engine actually works.

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MCU Diaries Entry 1: RDJ = Doctor Doom — The Mirror Villain Move

RDJ returning as Doctor Doom isn’t nostalgia—it’s storycraft. This entry breaks down the mirror-villain move, the Tony Stark DNA it’s built from, and what it teaches us to watch for on the road to Doomsday.

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The MCU Diaries: LOKI: 1.06 – For All Time, Always (SEASON 1 FINALE)

The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats the LOKI season 1 finale: episode 1.06 – For All Time, Always.

Blake discusses why we have to go back to the beginning to understand the end, why Jonathan Majors is exceptional as He Who Remains, and why this episode feels like a Smashing Pumpkins song…

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The MCU Diaries: LOKI: 1.05 – Journey Into Mystery

The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats LOKI: episode 1.05 – Journey Into Mystery.

Blake discusses “theme vs. anti-theme”, why this might be his favorite MCU episode yet, and why there absolutely needs to be an Old Loki and Alligator Loki spinoff…

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The MCU Diaries: LOKI: 1.04 – The Nexus Event

The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats LOKI: episode 1.04 – The Nexus Event.

Blake discusses the narrative use of twists, why the big twist for this episode is not the one you’re thinking of, and why he wants Loki’s hair flip put on a 24 hour loop…

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The MCU Diaries: LOKI: 1.03 – Lamentis

The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats LOKI: episode 1.03 – Lamentis.

Blake discusses why love is knowing and accepting fault, why there is an odd structure shift half way through the series, and why it feels like all is not what it seems…

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The MCU Diaries: LOKI: 1.02 – The Variant

The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats the LOKI: episode 1.02 – The Variant.

Blake discusses how the show goes beyond it’s “hook”, Free Will vs. Determinism, and why The Falcon And The Winter Soldier should be furiously taking notes from Loki…

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The MCU Diaries: LOKI: 1.01 – Glorious Purpose (SEASON 1 PREMIERE)

The MCU Diaries Host Blake Larsen chats the LOKI season 1 premiere: episode 1.01 – Glorious Purpose.

Blake discusses the exquisite use of exposition to break down character, how the show uses striking visuals and action to highlight the exposition, and why that leads to such an incredible emotional payoff by episode’s end…

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