Aug 12 2019SaveTV ReviewsLegion8/12/19BTV ReviewsLegion8/12/19Legion ends with a beautifully messy bow wrapped around its entire storyAlex McLevy212SaveLegion’s closing credits resurrect the musical cue that began the montage depicting the life of David Haller way…
Aug 5 2019SaveTV ReviewsLegion8/5/19B-TV ReviewsLegion8/5/19Stuck between the past and present, Legion struggles toward its conclusionAlex McLevy130Save“You should never have come.” This is the magic phrase, the utterance Farouk says held the power to his overthrow of…
Jul 29 2019SaveTV ReviewsLegion7/29/19B+TV ReviewsLegion7/29/19A trip into fairy tales helps a hero return to the world of LegionAlex McLevy95SaveThe rap battle between Oliver and Jerome is maybe the single silliest thing Legion has ever done. Sillier than a…
Jul 22 2019SaveTV ReviewsLegion7/22/19BTV ReviewsLegion7/22/19David goes to war, with deadly results, on a tumultuous LegionAlex McLevy127SaveThere’s no such thing as a good war. Benjamin Franklin’s dictum remains true even if you can go back in time and…
Jul 15 2019SaveTV ReviewsLegion7/15/19A-TV ReviewsLegion7/15/19Legion becomes a literal horror show with one of its creepiest threats everAlex McLevy183SaveDavid Haller’s veneer of faux-enlightenment is wearing awfully thin. “Be nice, or I can’t be nice,” he gently…
Jul 8 2019SaveTV ReviewsLegion7/8/19B+TV ReviewsLegion7/8/19Professor X arrives and Legion tells the story of David's tragic infancyAlex McLevy98SaveThere’s something odd and vaguely melancholy about watching a story play out when you already know how it’s going to…
Jul 1 2019SaveTV ReviewsLegion7/1/19BTV ReviewsLegion7/1/19David confronts Syd, and Legion confronts its dark narrativeAlex McLevy139SaveWe all live with the mistakes of our past. Some of us go to therapy, some of us drink or do drugs, some of us…
Jun 24 2019SaveTV ReviewsLegion6/24/19B+TV ReviewsLegion6/24/19Legion's final season begins by traveling through time to save the showAlex McLevy189Save“PLEASE STAND BY,” reads the screen in the opening seconds of “Chapter 20,” the third season premiere of Legion.…
Jun 12 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion6/12/18CTV ReviewsLegion6/12/18With its shocking season finale, Legion makes a painful and disastrous moveAlex McLevy649Save[Note: The following review includes mentions of sexual assault.]
Jun 5 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion6/5/18BTV ReviewsLegion6/5/18Everyone heads to the desert as Legion builds to its climactic showdownAlex McLevy114SaveDo we only root for our heroes because we know them better than we do the villains? Part of what’s made season two…
May 29 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion5/29/18B+TV ReviewsLegion5/29/18Legion reveals what Melanie has been up to all this time, other than getting highAlex McLevy61SavePoor Melanie Bird. She’s spent her life in pursuit of a man who got stuck in the astral plane, then finally returned…
May 22 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion5/22/18BTV ReviewsLegion5/22/18It might be time for Legion to stop with the educational monologuesAlex McLevy91SaveThis was a terrific episode of Legion: An exciting jailbreak, a mindfuck of a desert journey, and some intriguingly…
May 15 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion5/15/18B+TV ReviewsLegion5/15/18Everything descends into chaos on a dark and difficult LegionAlex McLevy91SaveThe irony of the current situation on Legion, as the Shadow King points out in this episode, is absolutely…
May 8 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion5/8/18ATV ReviewsLegion5/8/18A heartbreaking Legion presents a David who wishes he were anywhere but hereAlex McLevy190SaveFlash back to David, right before he’s admitted to Clockworks, not realizing just how long he’s about to spend…
May 1 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion5/1/18B+TV ReviewsLegion5/1/18Legion interrogates Lenny and reveals an unexpected body amid the puzzlesAlex McLevy148Save“My theory is...there is no present. There’s only past and future.” Ptonomy is explaining this to Lenny Busker as a…
Apr 24 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion4/24/18B-TV ReviewsLegion4/24/18It's all about Syd as Legion slows down for a life lesson in hard knocksAlex McLevy119Save“Do you know what love is? It’s a hot bath. What happens to things when you leave them in a bath for too long? They…
Apr 17 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion4/17/18A-TV ReviewsLegion4/17/18David enters the maze for some psychic heroics on a superb LegionAlex McLevy109SaveThe frustrating thing about illness is never knowing when you’re going to get hit with it. Sure, you don’t want to…
Apr 10 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion4/10/18BTV ReviewsLegion4/10/18Legion settles down and reminds everyone it's still a superhero showAlex McLevy135SaveStrip away all the dance routines, the cafeteria boats, the parables narrated by Jon Hamm, and Legion is…
Apr 3 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion4/3/18A-TV ReviewsLegion4/3/18Legion asks if we can lie to ourselves in an electrifying second-season premiereAlex McLevy196SaveWe tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. We give order to the chaos, coherence to the randomness, and…
Apr 2 2018SaveTV ReviewsLegion4/2/18A-TV ReviewsLegion4/2/18Legion's second season proves its jaw-dropping first was no illusionDanette Chavez48SavePsionic surges frozen in time. Cocktail hour on the astral plane. Bollywood-inspired dance breaks for the wicked and…