CSeason 2With its shocking season finale, Legion makes a painful and disastrous moveAlex McLevy6/12/18 10:10pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink[Note: The following review includes mentions of sexual assault.]
BSeason 2Everyone heads to the desert as Legion builds to its climactic showdownAlex McLevy6/05/18 10:10pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkDo we only root for our heroes because we know them better than we do the villains? Part of what’s made season two of …
B+Season 2Legion reveals what Melanie has been up to all this time, other than getting highAlex McLevy5/29/18 10:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkPoor Melanie Bird. She’s spent her life in pursuit of a man who got stuck in the astral plane, then finally returned…
BSeason 2It might be time for Legion to stop with the educational monologuesAlex McLevy5/22/18 10:10pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThis was a terrific episode of Legion: An exciting jailbreak, a mindfuck of a desert journey, and some intriguingly…
B+Season 2Everything descends into chaos on a dark and difficult LegionAlex McLevy5/15/18 10:10pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe irony of the current situation on Legion, as the Shadow King points out in this episode, is absolutely delicious.…
ASeason 2A heartbreaking Legion presents a David who wishes he were anywhere but hereAlex McLevy5/08/18 10:05pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFlash back to David, right before he’s admitted to Clockworks, not realizing just how long he’s about to spend inside…
B+Season 2Legion interrogates Lenny and reveals an unexpected body amid the puzzlesAlex McLevy5/01/18 10:05pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“My theory is...there is no present. There’s only past and future.” Ptonomy is explaining this to Lenny Busker as a way…
B-Season 2It's all about Syd as Legion slows down for a life lesson in hard knocksAlex McLevy4/24/18 10:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“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 get…
A-Season 2David enters the maze for some psychic heroics on a superb LegionAlex McLevy4/17/18 10:15pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe frustrating thing about illness is never knowing when you’re going to get hit with it. Sure, you don’t want to be…
BSeason 2Legion settles down and reminds everyone it's still a superhero showAlex McLevy4/10/18 10:10pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkStrip away all the dance routines, the cafeteria boats, the parables narrated by Jon Hamm, and Legion is fundamentally…
A-Season 2Legion asks if we can lie to ourselves in an electrifying second-season premiereAlex McLevy4/03/18 10:20pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWe tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. We give order to the chaos, coherence to the randomness, and…
A-Season 2Legion's second season proves its jaw-dropping first was no illusionDanette Chavez4/02/18 2:03pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkPsionic surges frozen in time. Cocktail hour on the astral plane. Bollywood-inspired dance breaks for the wicked and…
B+Season 1Legion’s surprising conclusion reminds us enemies are heroes of their own storyAlex McLevy3/29/17 10:10pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLenny is no phantom limb. While watching the mutant demon frozen in place, David imagines what life will be like once…
A-Season 1The Legion team confronts David’s nemesis in a singular showdownAlex McLevy3/22/17 10:03pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkStories are more powerful than we give them credit for. We don’t remember sequences of events too well, but assemble…
A-Season 1Legion proves David’s mind is the most treacherous groundDanette Chavez3/15/17 10:10pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor most of us, retreating into our thoughts or daydream is a way of coping with something bad or unpleasant. We can…
A-Season 1David unleashes his power and the world of Legion gets intriguingly messyAlex McLevy3/08/17 10:10pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkDavid Haller is not himself. Since the first episode of Legion, it’s been a recurring problem: If we are the sum of our…
ASeason 1An eerie Legion is part head trip, part road trip—and all dazzlingAlex McLevy3/01/17 10:18pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMemories are unreliable. That’s been Legion’s refrain from the very beginning, a promise that what you’re about to see…
A-Season 1Memories become a trap on a fleet and bracing LegionAlex McLevy2/22/17 10:03pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf Melanie is hiding her true intentions, she’s doing a damn good job of it. Lenny may have been David’s best friend in…
B+Season 1Legion dives into memories, and its powers begin to reveal themselvesAlex McLevy2/15/17 10:00pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkImagine your life story isn’t what you thought it was. Whether it’s finding out you’re adopted, or that your father…
B+Season 1The mystery begins on Legion’s weird and wondrous premiereAlex McLevy2/08/17 10:30pmEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOur understanding of the world is unavoidably shaped by our limited perspective. Time and again, scientists tell us…
