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…

The first season of Noah Hawley’s Legion explored, among many, many other things, the relationship between Haller siblings David (Dan Stevens) and Amy (Katie Aselton). The former was perpetually troubled, while the latter became almost hyper-vigilant of what she originally perceived as her brother’s mood swings.

The first full trailer for Legion season two is here, and it’s much more straightforward than previous teases (well, as straightforward as Legion can get).

The first Legion season two teaser tried to undermine our understanding of everything that went down at Clockworks and Summerland in the first season. But a new pair of clips makes it pretty clear that there’s a lot of shit going on outside David’s head (not to mention ours).

“It was all a dream” is a common trope in fiction, with characters discovering that everything they thought they experienced was all an illusion, but it’s rare that the “it was all a dream” twist actually applies to you—i.e., the person reading the book or watching the movie. That’s what this new teaser for season two…

FX has just announced the return of another one of its critically-lauded original series. Just weeks after Donald Glover heads back to Atlanta for season two and The Americans prepares to say “dasvidanya,” Legion will return to mess with your head a bit more. The network announced via press release today that the…