The new Disney+ show Loki has just managed to become Marvel's most-watched premiere ever.
According to Deadline, the MCU spin-off show, which stars Tom Hiddleston as the eponymous God of Mischief, broke records for the streaming service with its pilot episode.
Viewing figures provided by Samba TV show that Wednesday premiere was watched by 890,000 households in the United States - the largest US premiere-day audience for any of Marvel’s Disney+ shows.
Take a look at the official trailer for Loki in the video below:This figure has far surpassed that of the previous two Marvel Cinematic Universe series, WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the former of which accrued 655,000 households, while the latter pulled in 759,000 households.
However, as a caveat, it should be noted that these statistics don’t include mobile views, which leaves many unaccounted for.
On social media, fans of the series have taken to Twitter to gush about the show, with many hailing it as Marvel's best efforts to date.
For example, one Twitter user wrote: "Loki is one of the best pilots I’ve seen in a long time. So many claps for the whole team on this one."
This person then wrote: "Loki show definitely has the best Pilot episode of all the Marvel shows. Very excited to see where this s**t goes."
Another fan stated: "Marvel's Loki had the best pilot episode out of the 3 Marvel shows at this point. I was hyped for this but I didn't know I'd be THIS hyped! [sic]"
"Loki is the best pilot of a Marvel TV show. So many questions and answers at the same time. I’m so excited for this full story," another viewer tweeted.
Finally, someone else wrote: "The first episode of #Loki was the best pilot of an MCU Disney+ series so far. A trippy, mind-bending, and spooky start that included plenty of world-building.
"Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson are phenomenal and the TVA is OP like crazy lol Episode 2 can’t come soon enough! [sic]"
The series sees an alternate timeline version of the God of Mischief team up with Owen Wilson's cosmic bureaucrat Mobius M. Mobius to fix the continuity errors caused by his cheating death in Avengers: Endgame.
Commenting on his portrayal of the character in a recent interview with Empire magazine, Hiddleston stated: "Loki is the quintessential shapeshifter.
"His mercurial nature is that you don’t know whether, across the MCU, he’s a hero or a villain or an anti-hero. You don’t know whether you can trust him."
