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- FX
- Jun 24, 2019
- FX
- Jun 24, 2019
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
- Jun 24, 2019
- FX
- Jun 24, 2019
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
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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It’s difficult enough staying on track having seen the previous two seasons. If you want to make up your loss, go back to the beginning and work your way toward the third season. And be prepared to be challenged. ... What hasn’t changed is that “Legion” remains an intoxicating experience laced with a grand sense of wonder. The humorous touches are every bit as clever as the visual treats. The performances are every bit as compelling as the production team’s command of the narrative.
Without the full season to examine at length (out of eight total episodes, I've seen four), who knows what will happen. But I'm loving the direction the third and final season of Legion is going in because the journey has been less about Marvel and more about Hawley and, given the television track record of each, I'll take the latter every time. There's an unmistakable creative energy about each episode of the third season, as if Hawley, his writing staff and collection of directors all gathered around and said, "Let's go out on fire."
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 60 User Ratings
7.8
83% Positive
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7% Mixed
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10% Negative
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Season 3 has really ended legion on a high note for me, I feel like it perfectly wrapped up the story without saving or absolving David of any blame (cause he is pretty villanous this season let's be honest).
I'm really giving this season a 10 as I just cannot think of a single way to improve it - every episode advanced the story whilst keeping that legion flair (but not to the extent of distraction a la season 2) and just felt perfect to me. I think that is how I will look back on this final season; as just perfect.
It has all the traits I loved and none of the ones I hated. One of (if not the best) of Marvel's properties (including all the MCU, Fox, Sony stuff). Noah Hawley is a real creative and he made a show that I really struggle to think anyone else could have executed (outside David Lynch who is clearly a massive inspiration...)
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SEASON 3
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 3
Hawley’s faithfulness to being as weird and infuriating as possible until the end is admirable. And when it’s working, as it does so often throughout season 3, it’s easy to get swept up in the freewheeling creativity of it all.
Hawley’s series remains ambitious to the end, accepting the flaws that come with such big dreams and daring to keep dreaming bigger. The result is imperfect, but mesmerizing in just enough scenes to keep you coming back for more. Those short stories are adding up to something, and even if “Legion” isn’t the sum of its parts, some of those parts are spectacular on their own.
In its attempt to provide both character study and pure, unhinged abstraction, Legion has fashioned yet another visually distinct and uniquely bizarre season around a man’s unknowable mind.
Aggressively listless season. ... All of Legion's wannabe weirdness is like that, PowerPoint surrealism hiding a total lack of imagination. [28 Jun 2019, p.54]
A shakey end to a stellar trilogy season three begins about as confused as it's audience but finds itself halfway with a strong enough conclusion to justify revisiting. A super powered cat and mouse game packed with death, trauma,hatred&revenge. It's strange trajectory in retro spect is the only suitable conclusion
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SEASON 3
The final season of Legion was... interesting.
This was already arguably the best looking show on television. Creator Noah Hawley moves to the next level as he once again outdoes himself creatively. The world of Legion is so bizarre at points, but so wonderful to look at. David (Dan Stevens) is the leader of a hippie cult in this and a lot is done with this trippy motif. There is a new threat that is one of the show's best.
The plot like the rest of the show is interesting, including some choice revelations. However, Hawley tries too hard to be clever and his fantastic ideas often derail the story. Things are less cohesive than the last two seasons. There is another stand-alone episode that is inventive, but really takes away from the main plot and wasn't really necessary. This episode is especially frustrating considering the reduced episode count this season.
Only David and Syd (Rachel Keller) really have much of a focus. The supporting cast feels thrown to the side even more than last season. The final episode, well it isn't bad, but I think a lot of viewers will be expecting more from it.
I don't regret the ride, but ideally I wanted a little more out of this.
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SEASON 3
The script for this feels like someone wrote a script drunk and it turned with a lot of cool ideas, but instead of taking the time to make a good final product and distill the script, they just left everything in.
So much potential ruined by overdoing themselves.
shame
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SEASON 3
So, let's just take the show with the best, most experimental premise and tone on mainstream television and make it crap by turning the women into manipulable plot tools.
How the hell did Syd get convinced by Melanie that David was evil, when she knew she was in Shadow King territory again? Syd and Melanie seem to be the writer's token characters for complaining about the #MeToo movement, so I'll just say I don't like crappy writing used for political pandering no matter for what side of the political spectrum it is.
Melanie was a bore the entirety of last season, Syd is a bore this season, the 'tone poem' sections where the plot stops moving forward for slo-mo/flashback action or dumb music videos are a bore. So I just skip forward those sections when watching this show.
If I hate it, why do I keep watching it? Well, Navid Negahban being a scene stealer is one reason. On the other hand, the showrunners decided to pander to the Asian crowd, but it's not obnoxious because they luckily found an Asian actress who is INSANELY good and just as well one of the best things in the show.
Actually, that teenage Asian girl, I can hear no accent from her when she goes from language to language. However, I have no idea why they had Negahban's character speak French so much when the actor pronounces it like **** half of the time.
S2 E5's discussion of "moral panic" was more than enough for the writer to bring home the fact that today's outrage culture is pure evil incarnate. There was no need to take two fine characters (Melanie and Syd) and have them make the stupidest choices possible just to trash talk the loonies on the far left and to create drama that does NOT feel organic at all.
Those two tattoos on Syd's wrists this season???!!!! "Me" "First"??!!! Get the F outta here with that sub-par writing trash!
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