Sunday night was the season finale of Westworld—an episode whose plot points I will not be spoiling here, because to do so would suggest not only that I actually retained them, but that I had some understanding of their significance. I’ve watched two seasons of the HBO sci-fi drama now and, while I’m mildly conversant…

This post discusses details of Legion’s second-season finale, “Chapter 19.”

[Note: The following review includes mentions of sexual assault.]

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 Legion such an emotionally odd story is how it has bifurcated our allegiances since almost the very beginning. We know Amahl Farouk is the bad guy, he’s hurt and killed people, but rather than detail a…

Poor Melanie Bird. She’s spent her life in pursuit of a man who got stuck in the astral plane, then finally returned just long enough to stoke her hopes for a long-awaited rekindling of their romance, only to disappear once more. She followed his dream for so long, and now it might be too late to find her own.

This was a terrific episode of Legion: An exciting jailbreak, a mindfuck of a desert journey, and some intriguingly elusive telepathic trickery all came into play. Unfortunately, then it stopped dead in its tracks for a hoary after-school special about the danger of cell phones. It may be time to retire Jon Hamm’s…

The irony of the current situation on Legion, as the Shadow King points out in this episode, is absolutely delicious. “The villain is a hero and the hero is the villain?” he purrs, the words rolling off his tongue like whiskey mixed with honey. It’s enough to make even a man desperately trying to find his own body…

Flash back to David, right before he’s admitted to Clockworks, not realizing just how long he’s about to spend inside those walls. “It’s wasn’t supposed to be like this.” And right there next to him is Amy Haller, her eyes fighting back the tears that are about to well up. “I know,” she says. “But it is.”

“My theory is...there is no present. There’s only past and future.” Ptonomy is explaining this to Lenny Busker as a way of describing why he feels it’s impossible to determine the present, but he’s on to more than he knows. The memory maestro has an unexpected passenger in his brain, but it’s hiding well.

“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 soft, fall apart.”

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, April 24. All times are Eastern.

The frustrating thing about illness is never knowing when you’re going to get hit with it. Sure, you don’t want to be around someone coughing and feverish, and it’s best to wash your hands before eating, but there’s only so much you can do to prevent infection. So how much worse is it to become the architect of your…

On Thursday’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, Legion star Aubrey Plaza had a very April Ludgate-esque answer to host Meyers’ request for a rundown of just what the hell is going on on the show that our reviewer calls “weird and wondrous.” Others might claim to be baffled and lost in this trippiest outpost of the Marvel…

There are so many A.V. Club staffers watching and discussing Legion that we’ve decided to add weekly roundtables to our coverage of season two. Consider them a complement to Alex McLevy’s recaps, expanding the conversation about a show that can always accommodate multiple interpretations and multiple perspectives.

Strip away all the dance routines, the cafeteria boats, the parables narrated by Jon Hamm, and Legion is fundamentally a story about a person trying to reinvent themselves after a lifetime of false premises and tragic mistakes. But also, he’s a mutant superhero trying to save the world—and the show is reminding us of…

We tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. We give order to the chaos, coherence to the randomness, and linearity to the time-hopping jumble of our memories. But what do we sacrifice for this self-imposed clarity? What stories do we choose to forget, experiences do we shunt aside, to make space for our…

Psionic surges frozen in time. Cocktail hour on the astral plane. Bollywood-inspired dance breaks for the wicked and weary alike. Noah Hawley’s Legion might be the un-superhero show, but there was nothing ordinary about its debut season. The Fargo creator took elements of the horror, thriller, and sci-fi genres, then…

To prepare for Legion’s return, you can watch this video, marathon the show this weekend on FX, or enter this contest to win a limited-edition Mondo poster inspired by the show and the first season on Blu-ray so you can watch David Haller’s (Dan Stevens) story unfold at your leisure.

One of The A.V. Club’s favorite shows of 2017, Legion, returns to FX next week for a second season of mind-bending storytelling, and hopefully some answers to our burning questions. Was David’s thrilling escape—and subsequent abduction—really all in our heads, as a new teaser suggests? Is Summerland really entering…