Marvel Studios Announces Premiere Dates For 'Loki' Season 2 And 'Hawkeye' Spinoff 'Echo'

A direct hit! And a surprise release strategy is happening too

On the eve of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s Disney+ debut, Marvel Studios announced premiere dates for two of its upcoming series for the streamer. Loki will be returning, and Echo, the spinoff of Hawkeye starring a reprising Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez aka Echo, will be premiering this fall.

Loki season 2 will premiere on Friday, October 6, with weekly releases. It picks up in the TVA’s new timeline, following Sylvie, played by Sophia Di Martino, plunging the universe into chaos by killing Kang variant He Who Remains, played by Jonathan Majors and creator of the TVA to protect the Sacred Timeline, with a stab to the heart. This new timeline is one where Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, and she never meet, and Mobius, played by Owen Wilson, has no memory of the old timeline. Still, Loki and Mobius must hunt the unleashed Kang variants across the multiverse. Fans and casuals alike got a piece of it serving as a Quantumania post-credits scene, following the defeat of the main Kang the Conqueror. It saw Loki and Mobius in the audience of Victor Timely, a variant presenting a machine with which he has presumably sinister motives. It’s a brief peek and doesn’t get much beyond that, Mobius still pretty memoryless, but it’s just 5 months away from discovering the broader context. Not only are Hiddleston, Majors, and Wilson back for this second season, but so is DiMartino, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Judge Ravonna Renslayer, Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15 and Tara Strong, who recently voiced Mainframe in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, as the voice of Miss Minutes. Joining this season are Academy Award-winning multiverse traverser Ke Huy Quan and Blindspotting’s Rafael Casal.

Echo meanwhile will premiere all of its episodes on Wednesday, November 29, the only MCU series since the Netflix era to do a binge release. The series serves as an origin story for the character, as her ruthless behavior in NYC catches up to the Tracksuit Mafia leader back home. Maya must “face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots and embrace the meaning of family and community if she ever hopes to move forward.” The confirmed cast includes the returning Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, the also-returning Vincent D’Onofrio as nemesis Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, Tantoo Cardinal, Devery Jacobs, Chaske Spencer, Cody Lightning, Graham Greene and Zahn McClarnon.

Interestingly, October 6 is a Friday, the exact Friday the next Sony Marvel movie Kraven the Hunter releases. One may recall that it was the release of Loki’s first season that triggered Disney+’s move to Wednesdays as their big content update day, whether it was original series, new episodes, or library series, while Fridays, which was the day for such, remained so for movies.