“War is on its way” in final teaser for Loki season 2

The second season of Loki premieres tonight on Disney+. What trouble will the God of Mischief (Tom Hiddleston) get himself into this time? Get a glimpse in the latest and last teaser trailer for the series:

So far as Marvel’s TV series go, Loki has been one of the better received. It’s also the first Marvel show to get a second season, so expectations are high.

There are some big names involved in this second season, including Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan and actor Jonathan Majors, who plays the villain Victor Timely. Majors has been embroiled in legal drama over assault allegations, which could cast a pall over the show. We’ll find out as new episodes come out every Thursday night, starting tonight.

Watch Game of Thrones veteran Thomas Brodie-Sangster in trailer for new Disney+ series The Artful Dodger

Here’s a bit of a weird one. Do you know the Charles Dickens book Oliver Twist, best known for the bit where the little orphan holds out an empty soup bowl and says, “Please sir, I want some more”? Well, there’s a character in that book named Jack Dawkins, aka the Artful Dodger. He’s a child pickpocket.

Well, what if I told you that Hulu was making a TV series all about what happens when that character grows up to become a surgeon who has to deal with his criminal past when his former gang leader Fagin shows up? Cause that’s what’s happening. Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who played Jojen Reed on Game of Thrones, is the Artful Dodger. Harry Potter veteran David Thewlis plays Fagin. Watch the trailer below:

All eight episodes of The Artful Dodger will be available to watch on Hulu on November 29.

Watch the trailer for a live-action Pokémon TV show…kinda!

Another weird one: there’s a live-action Pokémon TV show on the way…sort of! Pack Your Pocket With Adventure, abbreviated to PokéTsume, is an upcoming Japanese TV show about a young woman named Madoka Akagi who gets dispirited about her career and who finds solace with a copy of Pokémon Red, one of the original Pokémon games released for the Game Boy way back in 1996. Watch the trailer below:

So this is not, sorry to say, an actual Pokémon TV show about a trainer running around trying to capture animals in balls and then make them fight, but it looks pretty charming anyway. The first episode of Pack Your Pocket With Adventure airs on TV Tokyo on October 19.

Jason Statham takes revenge on phishing scammers in trailer for The Beekeeper

One more weird one for the road: MGM has released a trailer for a movie called The Beekeeper, about what happens when Jason Statham gets bloody, explosive revenge on people phishing scams on unsuspecting old ladies.

Actually, it might go higher than that. Statham’s character is a beekeeper…but in this case, “beekeeper” may be code for some of kind of secret rogue peacekeeping agent…but also he literally does keep bees. I can’t tell how serious the movie wants us to take it. Just watch the trailer and decide for yourself:

The Beekeeper is out in theaters on January 12.

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h/t Kotaku