Legion: Season 2

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Legion: Chapter 12

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Season Details & Credits

FX | Season Premiere Date: April 3, 2018

Starring: Dan Stevens, Jean Smart, Aubrey Plaza

Summary: The second season of the drama based on the X-Men comics character sees David meeting Farouk (Said Taghmaoui) face-to-face.

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Suspense, Science Fiction

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E11. Chapter 19
Air Date: June 12, 2018
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S2:E10. Chapter 18
Air Date: June 5, 2018
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S2:E9. Chapter 17
Air Date: May 29, 2018

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Matt Zoller Seitz

Apr 3, 2018

Legion is the most brazenly inventive series on TV. ... The genre mash-ups that result are often as weird as they are striking, and they delight as art objects even when they do little to advance the story. (I consider it a compliment to the show to say that it doesn’t care all that much about plot; others will not agree.) ... The frustrations and indulgences are all of a piece. This is someone else’s dream. You get to watch it, question it, and sometimes dance to it. Read full review

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UPROXX Alan Sepinwall

Mar 29, 2018

A new season that’s weirder and more vivid than before. ... The new season is at once more opaque and more direct than the first one. The premiere is so full of digressions that the plot eventually begins to feel like the real digression, yet by the end of it there’s a clear structure in place for how David will be dealing with the Shadow King. Read full review

Danette Chavez

Apr 2, 2018

Thankfully, the show remains as experiential as ever—getting inside the head of an all-powerful mutant might be inadvisable, but on Legion, it actually seems possible. Just as important, the new season gives us ever more compelling reasons to make that trip. Read full review

Joseph Falcone

Apr 2, 2018

Better than season 1 in some regards, but weaker in spots, it’s difficult to say whether Legion’s second outing is an improvement over its predecessor or at a stalemate. Read full review

Collider

Apr 2, 2018

There’s a lot to catch up on from Legion‘s first season, and thus, the show’s first episode back is a bit of a tedious if arguably necessary affair. ... However, thanks primarily to the season premiere’s director, Tim Mielants, who does excellent work on AMC’s The Terror, one comes out of the first episode with feet placed firmly on the show’s narrative ground. Read full review

Michael Haigis

Apr 3, 2018

Legion presents itself as a maze, but it's more accurately an imaginatively adorned straight line in season two. The series performs an effective illusion: It can be uncanny, but it's rarely truly impenetrable. The flamboyant peculiarity of David's world convinces us that we're seeing something for the first time. Read full review

Mike Hale

Apr 2, 2018

The formal inventiveness deployed by Mr. Hawley and his crew of directors, who include the noted cinematographer Ellen Kuras (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”) and the indie filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour (“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”), is consistently impressive. It also consistently outstrips the storytelling. ... The sense of comic-book business-as-usual is more acute in Season 2. Read full review

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DavidCall360

Apr 4, 2018

The second season brings back everything that made the first season so good and then adds even more insanity and weirdness. If you enjoyed the first season you will love this season as well.

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ehsoony

Sep 17, 2018

Mind blowing..Why? The most amazing screenplay I've ever seen! The way its telling every characters past, parallel worlds episode, Finding the body and how things went in the desert with David & Syd, beginning part of every chapter that describes a psychosis & ... shows that :
Mr. Hawley,Mind blowing..Why? The most amazing screenplay I've ever seen! The way its telling every characters past, parallel worlds episode, Finding the body and how things went in the desert with David & Syd, beginning part of every chapter that describes a psychosis & ... shows that :
Mr. Hawley, YOU R A GENIUS!… Expand

0 of 2 users found this helpful02

MasterGogi

Jul 18, 2018

one of the best tv shows based on comics! respect!
not only based on comic, but shown to the viewers as a comic/comic like as well!
and it was done great! acting is superb, and director succeeded where lots of them failed! can't wait till season 3, so good were the first two seasons.....one of the best tv shows based on comics! respect!
not only based on comic, but shown to the viewers as a comic/comic like as well!
and it was done great! acting is superb, and director succeeded where lots of them failed!
can't wait till season 3, so good were the first two seasons..... usually is season 1 to bring you in, but this show is mind blowing!… Expand

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SimboTheKing

Jun 4, 2022

I've gotta say that this season of Legion is really not as good as I remember. There's huge swaths of this season where it becomes so abstract and weird that I sort of lost any semblance of the plot. Whilst this weirdness may have been an intentional choice, I think shows like Twin PeaksI've gotta say that this season of Legion is really not as good as I remember. There's huge swaths of this season where it becomes so abstract and weird that I sort of lost any semblance of the plot. Whilst this weirdness may have been an intentional choice, I think shows like Twin Peaks demonstrate that you can make odd, off-kilter choices without necessarily sacrificing the plot. The ending remains as good as I remember it though, and the Farouk-David fight is such a creative way to show a telepathy battle. I just wish they had toned down some of the metaphorical elements as they just felt like they purposely prolonged the season without a good enough pay off.… Expand

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ScienceAdvisor

Apr 11, 2018

Weird for the sake of weird is not enough. As of episode two, this second season tries to simply amp up the weirdness without any real substance. It also seems to have abandoned any sense of discovery, as everyone simply accepts any premise that is presented, regardless of how nonsensicalWeird for the sake of weird is not enough. As of episode two, this second season tries to simply amp up the weirdness without any real substance. It also seems to have abandoned any sense of discovery, as everyone simply accepts any premise that is presented, regardless of how nonsensical (e.g strawberry flavoring as a conductant). Given that ratings are scrapped if the review is updated, I will refrain from a future update. Given that I will only give this one more episode, I doubt it would change my review.… Expand

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popqazguy

Jun 23, 2018

Massively disappointing. Style over substance has never had a more obvious model candidate. Season 2 of Legion is a baffling display of trippiness, but sadly nothing else. It is difficult to care about any of the characters or events, when the show plays so fast and hard with its rules.Massively disappointing. Style over substance has never had a more obvious model candidate. Season 2 of Legion is a baffling display of trippiness, but sadly nothing else. It is difficult to care about any of the characters or events, when the show plays so fast and hard with its rules.

There are entire episodes of filler and sections devoted to purely waxing poetic about philosophy and delusion, but it never adds to anything meaningful. The writing and pacing never picks up until the finale, and by then it rushes into a set up for season 3. The show obviously wants to try something different, but the execution is a pretentious mess. Its baffling how there are more character moments in the shorter season 1 than there are in the bloated 11 episodes here.

Season 1 was a great, focused and off kilter superhero tale with interesting characters. Season 2 has none of that. The acting remains solid, but apart from David, no one has an arc of any sort. Shock value is also at the forefront of season 2, with some #metoo influences. You'll know it when you see it.

I will say this, the finale is interesting in how it leaves its characters, but it feels out of place. The entire lead up to it is a murky, plodding mess that meanders.… Expand

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GgGgGgGgGgGg

Jun 30, 2019

Too much confusion, these powerful psyhic mutants cant even communicate, but dont worry the future is here to warn them, In a disgusting robot voice. Plese stop the train I want to get off.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

72
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: June 24, 2019
Season 2

85
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: April 3, 2018
- tbd
  S2:E11. Chapter 19
  Air Date: June 12, 2018
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  S2:E10. Chapter 18
  Air Date: June 5, 2018
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  S2:E9. Chapter 17
  Air Date: May 29, 2018
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  S2:E8. Chapter 16
  Air Date: May 22, 2018
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  S2:E7. Chapter 15
  Air Date: May 15, 2018
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  S2:E6. Chapter 14
  Air Date: May 8, 2018
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  S2:E5. Chapter 13
  Air Date: May 1, 2018
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  S2:E3. Chapter 11
  Air Date: April 17, 2018
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  S2:E2. Chapter 10
  Air Date: April 10, 2018
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  S2:E1. Chapter 9
  Air Date: April 3, 2018
Season 1

82
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 8, 2017