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. Davrosdaleks1
    Jun 14, 2018
    6
    I found this season to be uneven.

    This remains one of the most visually creative shows ever made. The showrunner really upped his game, and I'm amazed by some of the stuff that comes out of his head. This season even has a creature that rivals the Shadow King. However, all the attempts at cleverness bog the show down. The plot is stretched out and several parts questionable. There    I found this season to be uneven.

    This remains one of the most visually creative shows ever made. The showrunner really upped his game, and I'm amazed by some of the stuff that comes out of his head. This season even has a creature that rivals the Shadow King.

    However, all the attempts at cleverness bog the show down. The plot is stretched out and several parts questionable. There are a couple stand-alone episodes that are straight-up digressions, don't further the plot, try too hard to smart, and just weren't that entertaining. I've heard the showrunner say Legion has a lot of moral ambiguity to it. Again, I think he was trying too hard to be smart, not to mention edgy. There are several dark and sometimes nasty plot points in this. Some of them pay off spectacularly, but others come off as one-dimensional and didn't justify their uncomfortableness. They do things with both David and Syd that makes it hard to route for them. On the plus side, the progression of David's character and various plot points really came together in the end.

    The cast remains great. Dan Stevens really nails it as David. Although she has less screen time this season, Aubrey Plaza still does a great job. (She SHOULD have gotten an Emmy nomination last year.) Newcomer Navid Negahban should also be given credit for playing a low-key but extremely dangerous villain. Quite a unique character and performance. Unfortunately, so much time is spent is on David that the other characters are underutilized, or in the case of Jean Smart's Dr. Melanie Bird, now a junkie slowly losing it and whose character seems only to react to the actions of her husband, misused.

    If you liked the first season, you'd still probably want to see this for the visuals if nothing else. But be forewarned for how dark things get.    … Expand
  2. shoulderoforion
    Jun 9, 2018
    4
    *update 060918* I've stopped watching this show 8.5 episodes in, after an entire season of "dragging it out", just realized the same guy who does this show does FARGO which also was a super top notch excellent show it's first two seasons then became tedious episode stretching style over substantive action since. I refuse to be bored for most of a season in the hopes of something*update 060918* I've stopped watching this show 8.5 episodes in, after an entire season of "dragging it out", just realized the same guy who does this show does FARGO which also was a super top notch excellent show it's first two seasons then became tedious episode stretching style over substantive action since. I refuse to be bored for most of a season in the hopes of something happening so I've lowered my score to 4. Most likely won't be tuning in to the next season of more the same. *end update* It's pretty, and minblowing, but it hasn't made for a great TV show this first episode. Intereseting to watch, sure. But there's got to be a coherent story involved or else it's simply art, not theater. Hope it coalesces, as Legion was one of my favorite shows last year.… Expand
  3. ScienceAdvisor
    Apr 11, 2018
    6
    Weird for the sake of weird is not enough. As of episode two, this second season tries to simply amp up the weirdness without any real substance. It also seems to have abandoned any sense of discovery, as everyone simply accepts any premise that is presented, regardless of how nonsensical (e.g strawberry flavoring as a conductant). Given that ratings are scrapped if the review isWeird for the sake of weird is not enough. As of episode two, this second season tries to simply amp up the weirdness without any real substance. It also seems to have abandoned any sense of discovery, as everyone simply accepts any premise that is presented, regardless of how nonsensical (e.g strawberry flavoring as a conductant). Given that ratings are scrapped if the review is updated, I will refrain from a future update. Given that I will only give this one more episode, I doubt it would change my review.… Expand
  4. prms
    Aug 22, 2018
    6
    We got to episode 5, having really liked the first season. Maybe we should have persisted, I don't know. It's still incredibly creative and brilliant, but the sense that nothing that happens really means anything or has any real consequences started to come in pretty strongly. It feels like a brilliant film-maker playing a game and having a lot of fun, but having lost sight of the need forWe got to episode 5, having really liked the first season. Maybe we should have persisted, I don't know. It's still incredibly creative and brilliant, but the sense that nothing that happens really means anything or has any real consequences started to come in pretty strongly. It feels like a brilliant film-maker playing a game and having a lot of fun, but having lost sight of the need for compelling narrative… Expand
  5. SimboTheKing
    Jun 4, 2022
    6
    I've gotta say that this season of Legion is really not as good as I remember. There's huge swaths of this season where it becomes so abstract and weird that I sort of lost any semblance of the plot. Whilst this weirdness may have been an intentional choice, I think shows like Twin Peaks demonstrate that you can make odd, off-kilter choices without necessarily sacrificing the plot. TheI've gotta say that this season of Legion is really not as good as I remember. There's huge swaths of this season where it becomes so abstract and weird that I sort of lost any semblance of the plot. Whilst this weirdness may have been an intentional choice, I think shows like Twin Peaks demonstrate that you can make odd, off-kilter choices without necessarily sacrificing the plot. The ending remains as good as I remember it though, and the Farouk-David fight is such a creative way to show a telepathy battle. I just wish they had toned down some of the metaphorical elements as they just felt like they purposely prolonged the season without a good enough pay off.… Expand
  6. Kartikeya
    May 16, 2021
    6
    Linear storyline, visually dull, least surprising season, you think something great is coming up with all weird characters but eventually get disappointed when they simply forget those details and be focused on linear storyline, unlike season 1 season 2 storytelling is also rubbish. The things you loved and surprised you in the first season are not there in season second and the worstLinear storyline, visually dull, least surprising season, you think something great is coming up with all weird characters but eventually get disappointed when they simply forget those details and be focused on linear storyline, unlike season 1 season 2 storytelling is also rubbish. The things you loved and surprised you in the first season are not there in season second and the worst thing is it gets "repetitive", the worst comment this show can get.
    VERY DISAPPOINTED BY SEASON 2.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

15
#15 Best TV Season of 2018
38
#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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