Loki Director Explains That Miss Minutes Jump Scare | Screen Rant
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Loki episode 6, "For All Time. Always."
Loki director, Kate Herron, explains the inclusion of that jump scare courtesy of Miss Minutes at the beginning of episode 6, “For All Time. Always.” Loki and Sylvie enchanted Alioth in the penultimate episode of Loki’s first season, clearing the way to the Citadel at the End of Time. After a very historical, nostalgic, and ominous opening trip down memory lane (or navigation of the Scared Timeline), the two Lokis entered the Citadel only to be startled by the Time Variance Authority’s cartoon mascot, Miss Minutes (Tara Strong).
From the jump, audiences have not trusted the TVA nor Miss Minutes. In the series’ most recent episodes, Miss Minutes has proven even more suspicious than Ravonna Renslayer. After the Time-Keepers were revealed to be nothing but mindless androids in episode 4, some even went as far as theorizing the animated clock—who is neither a recording nor alive—was actually a nefarious A.I. running the TVA. Then, Miss Minutes appeared to the "heroes" in the Citadel looking creepier than ever, and, just for a minute, audiences pondered the possibility of a Skynet-esque finale. However, Miss Minutes is revealed to be the right-hand woman of the TVA’s true mastermind, He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors).
In an interview with Esquire, Kate Herron talked about filming the introduction to Majors’ characters as well as the Miss Minutes jump scare. The director, who will not be returning for season 2, was asked what went into the decision to make her a meme-able, creepy apparition. Read what she had to say below:
I love horror and my executive, Kevin Wright, knew that. Me and him were talking about episode six and I remember that he was like, ‘Oh, maybe you could do something creepy of Miss Minutes.’ And I immediately was like, ‘We have to do a jump scare!’ Because I haven't got to do a good jump scare in anything yet and I really wanted to, because a lot of my friends are horror directors. I was like, ‘I can't let them down.’ So I was really excited to have a shot at doing a jump scare. And Miss Minutes, it was really fun testing it because we'd kind of bring different people into the edit, me and Emma McCleave, the editor, and we'd just play it for them, watch them, and check that they were jumping when we cut it.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe certainly isn’t known for its jump scares, but that may change moving forward. As explained in episode 6, killing He Who Remains unleashed an infinite of Kangs/Nathaniel Richards/Immortus variants upon a liberated multiverse. The events of Loki are expected to lead into projects like Disney+’s What If…?, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania (for which Kang is already confirmed), and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The latter is being directed by Spider-Man and indie horror vet, Sam Raimi. That said, Doctor Strange 2 is being hyped as the MCU’s scariest film yet.
Loki’s first season ends with Tom Hiddleston’s character frantically searching for Mobius, only to find that he and Hunter B-15 don’t remember who he is. As an homage to Planet of the Apes, the final shot sees a mortified Loki staring at a statue of Kang the Conqueror within the TVA. Suffice to say, if Miss Minutes is still a TVA construct, she’s likely a much scarier A.I.
Source: Esquire
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