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With its shocking season finale, Legion makes a painful and disastrous move
[Note: The following review includes mentions of sexual assault.]
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Everyone heads to the desert as Legion builds to its climactic showdown
Do we only root for our heroes because we know them better than we do the villains? Part of what’s made season two of Le…
B+
Legion reveals what Melanie has been up to all this time, other than getting high
Poor Melanie Bird. She’s spent her life in pursuit of a man who got stuck in the astral plane, then finally returned…
B
It might be time for Legion to stop with the educational monologues
This was a terrific episode of Legion: An exciting jailbreak, a mindfuck of a desert journey, and some intriguingly…
B+
Everything descends into chaos on a dark and difficult Legion
The irony of the current situation on Legion, as the Shadow King points out in this episode, is absolutely delicious.…
A
A heartbreaking Legion presents a David who wishes he were anywhere but here
Flash back to David, right before he’s admitted to Clockworks, not realizing just how long he’s about to spend inside…
B+
Legion interrogates Lenny and reveals an unexpected body amid the puzzles
“My theory is...there is no present. There’s only past and future.” Ptonomy is explaining this to Lenny Busker as a way…
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It's all about Syd as Legion slows down for a life lesson in hard knocks
“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…
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David enters the maze for some psychic heroics on a superb Legion
The frustrating thing about illness is never knowing when you’re going to get hit with it. Sure, you don’t want to be…
B
Legion settles down and reminds everyone it's still a superhero show
Strip away all the dance routines, the cafeteria boats, the parables narrated by Jon Hamm, and Legion is fundamentally…
A-
Legion asks if we can lie to ourselves in an electrifying second-season premiere
We tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. We give order to the chaos, coherence to the randomness, and…
A-
Legion's second season proves its jaw-dropping first was no illusion
Psionic surges frozen in time. Cocktail hour on the astral plane. Bollywood-inspired dance breaks for the wicked and…
B+
Legion’s surprising conclusion reminds us enemies are heroes of their own story
Lenny is no phantom limb. While watching the mutant demon frozen in place, David imagines what life will be like once…
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The Legion team confronts David’s nemesis in a singular showdown
Stories are more powerful than we give them credit for. We don’t remember sequences of events too well, but assemble…
A-
Legion proves David’s mind is the most treacherous ground
For most of us, retreating into our thoughts or daydream is a way of coping with something bad or unpleasant. We can…
A-
David unleashes his power and the world of Legion gets intriguingly messy
David Haller is not himself. Since the first episode of Legion, it’s been a recurring problem: If we are the sum of our…
A
An eerie Legion is part head trip, part road trip—and all dazzling
Memories are unreliable. That’s been Legion’s refrain from the very beginning, a promise that what you’re about to see…
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Memories become a trap on a fleet and bracing Legion
If 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+
Legion dives into memories, and its powers begin to reveal themselves
Imagine your life story isn’t what you thought it was. Whether it’s finding out you’re adopted, or that your father…
B+
The mystery begins on Legion’s weird and wondrous premiere
Our understanding of the world is unavoidably shaped by our limited perspective. Time and again, scientists tell us…