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- FX
- Apr 3, 2018
- FX
- Apr 3, 2018
Summary Diagnosed as schizophrenic and now institutionalized, David Haller's (Dan Stevens) routine at a a psychiatric hospital is changed with the arrival of a new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller) and the discovery that the voices and visions may be real.
Created By: Noah Hawley
- FX
- Apr 3, 2018
- FX
- Apr 3, 2018
Summary Diagnosed as schizophrenic and now institutionalized, David Haller's (Dan Stevens) routine at a a psychiatric hospital is changed with the arrival of a new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller) and the discovery that the voices and visions may be real.
Created By: Noah Hawley
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
85
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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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.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 170 User Ratings
7.5
76% Positive
130 Ratings
130 Ratings
8% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
15% Negative
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 170 User Ratings
7.5
76% Positive
130 Ratings
130 Ratings
8% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
15% Negative
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
Effortlessly their best season as much as it is equally their most weird. A super powered trip into the marvel universe that doesn't suspend reality without providing a better one. It truly had me glued to my screen either in apprehension or confusion. I understand that it's nature can be seen as pretentious but that label feels unfitting when it's ideas are justified as the story progresses. Not a scene is wasted. David haller is a terrifyingly vulnerable God fighting a devil you might not want to kill(just yet)
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SEASON 2
Mind ****? 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!
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SEASON 2
The new episodes may not start off with the bang of the series premiere, but that first episode is still a doozy. What comes in its wake shows some improved creative discipline without losing the excitement that drives an unrestrained endeavor like this one.
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.
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.
This is eye-popping TV, probably the first series to bear the influence of Seijun Suzuki, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Lady Gaga. Legion is as energetic as a film student--and just as pretentious.
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.
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 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.
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SEASON 2
Linear storyline, visually dull, least surprising season, you think something great is coming up with all weird characters but eventually get disappointed when they simply forget those details and be focused on linear storyline, unlike season 1 season 2 storytelling is also rubbish. The things you loved and surprised you in the first season are not there in season second and the worst thing is it gets "repetitive", the worst comment this show can get.
VERY DISAPPOINTED BY SEASON 2.
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SEASON 2
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.
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