Legion

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Season 2
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 8, 2017
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 170 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 130 out of 170
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 170
  3. Negative: 26 out of 170
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  1. GgGgGgGgGgGg
    Jun 30, 2019
    0
    Too much confusion, these powerful psyhic mutants cant even communicate, but dont worry the future is here to warn them, In a disgusting robot voice. Plese stop the train I want to get off.
  2. torrentialrain
    Jun 10, 2018
    2
    This season demonstrates the limitations of surrealism in art. It is difficult to care about what any characters say or do, since there is little to nothing shown that is meaningful. In any other genre this would be called "riddled with plot holes", or "inconsistent story telling". Legion season 2 is the television equivalent of someone telling you about the fascinating dream they had lastThis season demonstrates the limitations of surrealism in art. It is difficult to care about what any characters say or do, since there is little to nothing shown that is meaningful. In any other genre this would be called "riddled with plot holes", or "inconsistent story telling". Legion season 2 is the television equivalent of someone telling you about the fascinating dream they had last night. Other peoples' dreams are seldom fascinating and rarely contain a deeper message except of course in this case where we learn that you should always storyboard an actual plot outline before you make an eleven episode serial narrative. If you are into philosophical scepticism I would suggest watching any Youtube video about simulation theory instead of this half-baked nonsense. Inventive cinematography and dedicated acting. Recommended as a sleep aid.… Expand
  3. popqazguy
    Jun 23, 2018
    3
    Massively disappointing. Style over substance has never had a more obvious model candidate. Season 2 of Legion is a baffling display of trippiness, but sadly nothing else. It is difficult to care about any of the characters or events, when the show plays so fast and hard with its rules.

    There are entire episodes of filler and sections devoted to purely waxing poetic about philosophy and    Massively disappointing. Style over substance has never had a more obvious model candidate. Season 2 of Legion is a baffling display of trippiness, but sadly nothing else. It is difficult to care about any of the characters or events, when the show plays so fast and hard with its rules.

    There are entire episodes of filler and sections devoted to purely waxing poetic about philosophy and delusion, but it never adds to anything meaningful. The writing and pacing never picks up until the finale, and by then it rushes into a set up for season 3. The show obviously wants to try something different, but the execution is a pretentious mess. Its baffling how there are more character moments in the shorter season 1 than there are in the bloated 11 episodes here.

    Season 1 was a great, focused and off kilter superhero tale with interesting characters. Season 2 has none of that. The acting remains solid, but apart from David, no one has an arc of any sort. Shock value is also at the forefront of season 2, with some #metoo influences. You'll know it when you see it.

    I will say this, the finale is interesting in how it leaves its characters, but it feels out of place. The entire lead up to it is a murky, plodding mess that meanders.    … Expand
  4. chiefcroc
    Jun 8, 2018
    0
    This season lost me at the Hudson Hawk rip-off... Surely with these actors and story premise, there's much more that can be achieved *yawns*
  5. SamKlein
    Apr 4, 2018
    0
    The Season 1 of this series was great, which is what makes this so disappointing. The 1st episode of Season 2 was quite literally garbage. It went way overboard with random theatrics and had absolutely no coherent development. "Slow" would be an understatement when 50% of an episode is awkward silence while the other 50% is a spattered collage of dance moves. Pure nonsense is not art, IThe Season 1 of this series was great, which is what makes this so disappointing. The 1st episode of Season 2 was quite literally garbage. It went way overboard with random theatrics and had absolutely no coherent development. "Slow" would be an understatement when 50% of an episode is awkward silence while the other 50% is a spattered collage of dance moves. Pure nonsense is not art, I can't believe this was allowed to air the way it is.… Expand
  6. AthanasiosT
    Apr 8, 2018
    1
    I managed up to 10 minutes of episode 1 and got really disappointed. Season 1 was a favorite, but this season is too slow for me.
  7. Qgal5kap
    Oct 12, 2019
    2
    After season 1, the most surreal thing here is not the content of the season, but the fact that it was made in the first place. At a time in history where most things are rushed, this series goes about fleshing out something that is entirely unnecesary.

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#15 Best TV Season of 2018
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#38 Most Discussed TV Season of 2018
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#95 Most Shared TV Season of 2018

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Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Apr 3, 2018
    100
    Legion is the most brazenly inventive series on TV. ... The genre mash-ups that result are often as weird as they are striking, and they delight as art objects even when they do little to advance the story. (I consider it a compliment to the show to say that it doesn’t care all that much about plot; others will not agree.) ... The frustrations and indulgences are all of a piece. This is someone else’s dream. You get to watch it, question it, and sometimes dance to it.
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  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Apr 3, 2018
    90
    There's still a tenuous connection to a sense-making plot (but only realistically if you watched Season 1). ... And yes, that gives me comfort only in the sense that what viewers will see in the opening episodes is such a perversely wonderful hallucinogenic experience--dance numbers, shape-shifting, the creepy sound of frozen people and their chattering teeth, explorations of color, astral plane hijinks and multiple WTF moments--that there's comfort in knowing it's not all just cinematic showboating, a Pollock/Rothko virtual reality with no meaning.
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  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Michael Haigis
    Apr 3, 2018
    75
    Legion presents itself as a maze, but it's more accurately an imaginatively adorned straight line in season two. The series performs an effective illusion: It can be uncanny, but it's rarely truly impenetrable. The flamboyant peculiarity of David's world convinces us that we're seeing something for the first time.
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