Legion, based on the Marvel character created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, dives into the action as David Haller (played by Dan Stevens) faces his biggest challenge yet.

This season finale delivers in so many ways and one of those ways is that it completely shreds what I’d expect from a season finale of a show. This final episode feels like it’s more of a bridge into the second season than it wraps up this season and that’s partially because so much of the episode is focused on reveals.

There’s so many unanswered questions this season and a lot of that revolves around the mysterious rival organization that’s also been out to get David and here we get some answers in a way… With The Interrogator captured we not only find out how he survived from being burned but also the point of the organization and their motivation is pretty basic in reality, mutants are threats. To see how David and his crew deal with it all is interesting and not expected. I fully thought this would be the clash in the second season and maybe it’ll be?

I ask that as a question because the episode leaves that opening in so many ways. The Shadow King is dealt with, but the results aren’t what are expected at all and instead things are left out there for us to imagine until the next season. It isn’t wrapped up, in fact things are to be continued.

It’s almost this shorten season learned lessons from the first season of The Walking Dead and with an early second season it knows its fate and can do exactly this. Plus… a teaser at the end after the credits!? This season left literally nothing at all resolved. It’s more of a prologue to the full second.

The visuals are still here in this final episode, though they’re not quite as good as previous episodes. Small hints aren’t quite as present and trippy design is muted in some way. Where things are done really well is Lenny as she struggles within David’s mind. Still, the style in costumes, sets, and just the general direction of the show is worlds above much of the rest of television. Awards season, take notice.

Legion caps off an amazing first season with a finale that delivers by not resolving things! This is a cliffhanger of a season done right and even though it has gone that route it also is full of reveals of a lot of unanswered questions. Legion in eight short episodes has made the case for being the best comic television show on the air, but also one of the best shows on television.

Overall Rating: 9.65

Legion, based on the Marvel character created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, dives into the action as David Haller (played by Dan Stevens) tries to find a way out of his predicament.

With just one more episode to go, Legion focuses on David and his friends being stuck in the construction by Lenny who we find out the real deal and comic fans should be squealing with glee.

In my last review I made some guesses as to who the man with the yellow eyes/Lenny really is and who David’s father is (though that’s straight from the comics). This episode confirms the former and seems to confirm the latter.

While everyone is still stuck in this weird world, David works out for himself what’s going on and explores the history of everything. It’s the clearest explanation of his mutant power, his lineage, and who the parasite mutant is.

As I said, fans of the X-Men comics will be happy with the revelations as things are laid out for new viewers in a very entertaining way. If things didn’t make sense until this episode, it’s pretty clear now exactly what’s going on. We know David’s history, the parasite’s, and how we got from point A to point B.

But, how to deal with it all is cool too. The various dots are brought together and done so in an episode that’s as visually stunning as all of the rest. There’s some amazing moments here, and that’s saying something from a show that’s been one of the visually best on television today.

Legion continues to get better and better with each episode and with each layer added and new reveal that will get comic fans super excited. This is one of the few cases where the long build has really paid off after a lot of episodes. This has been six episodes of hints and twists, and we get the delivery here. An absolutely fantastic series that begs for multiple viewings.

Overall Rating: 9.65

Legion, based on the Marvel character created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, dives into the action as David Haller (played by Dan Stevens) decides to take things back to the beginning where everything started.

The end of last episode was full of twists and turns and ended with Lenny capturing everyone in a twisted world that looks like the facility from the beginning of the season. This isn’t a start over, instead everyone is now under the power of Lenny who is the ruler of this world acting as the psychiatrist of the facility keeping her subjects docile and confused.

But as expected not everyone is completely bought into the make believe world and resists to some extent and it’s not who I thought.

While I thought it’d be David who would push back against Lenny, instead it’s Syd who stands up slowly putting together clues and anomalies that hints the world isn’t as it seems. And once again the show uses those visuals to entertain as much as the acting and plotting. This is a show you need to pay attention to so you can catch what’s going on visually.

And while those visuals are important in this episode for Syd’s journey, what’s really interesting is seeing the various characters in this new setting. Everyone is a captive and how they act within this new constructed world is entertaining and telling as to who they are as characters. Syd, Cary, Ptonomy, Kerry, Melanie, and The Eye are all present and while most are straightforward, one is not. The Eye is his usual creepiness, especially in a confrontation with Syd. He mostly stands around and you never get a good sense as to what’s going on with him.

But, what I think is the biggest thing of the episode is the reveal at the end. For some time I’ve been debating (with others and myself) if David is schizophrenic or as the show has stated this is all his power or even another mutant! We get what I think is the answer here in the final moments of the show which gives us some revelations that not only makes what’s going on clearer but what’s stated seems to make the show more tied into the “X” world it’s based on.

SPOILERS AND THEORIES!!! (Highlight to reveal the spoilers)

Lenny says she knows who David’s real father is and when she reveals herself to also be the man with the yellow eyes, who I’m guessing is the Shadow King. She says David was sent away to protect him from Lenny/yellow eyes. Since it’s clear Lenny/yellow eyes has control over the psychic plane I think it’s the best hint that Professor X is indeed David’s father in this television adaptation.

End Spoiler!!!

Ok, so if you read the theory/spoiler above you can understand my excitement and why I’m even more pumped for this series. It’s a fantastic twist that answers questions and has the series taking more from the comic world it’s based on.

Legion continues to get better and better with each episode and with each layer added and new reveal we’re forced to go back and think through what we’ve witnessed. An absolutely fantastic series that begs for multiple viewings.

Overall Rating: 9.85

Legion, based on the Marvel character created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, dives into the action as David Haller (played by Dan Stevens) decides to take action to save his sister. That leads to a series of events and revelations that I can only really describe as spiraling.

As emphasized again in this episode, David isn’t schizophrenic in the traditional sense, so what’s going on here? We find some of that out as David goes rogue to save his sister.

That leads to his new friends to follow him and in doing so they discover some of what’s been plaguing David including the man with the yellow eyes and Lenny who has gone off the rails herself taking charge in a bunch of ways.

This episode is an interesting one in that the first half is pretty standard with the hero going to save someone and doing it on his own. It’s not until we see the damage he’s done in doing so that we get a sense of how powerful he is and that’s also the case with his new friends. Their coming upon the carnage is an eye opener.

And that carnage is amazing. Again playing with visuals we see soldiers fused in the ground and ripped apart from reality and through a very neat visual trick we also get to see the man with the yellow eyes in action. It again emphasizes how impressive the visuals of the series are and that this is a whole other level of show (and challenges the X-Men movies in what they’ve presented).

The episode also finally gives us some hints as to what’s really going on with David. Is it something more than what we’ve been lead to believe? The end of the episode really challenges the viewer and lead me to utter “what the hell is going on” multiple times and that’s not a bad thing. The series has slowly explained what’s going on and I’m sure what we’ve witnessed here and that ending will be better explained in future episodes.

The visuals of the series continue to be stunning and the best thing about it. That says a lot, since the story is so solid and getting better with every episode. This is a show you need to watch and watch intently as many of the hints and plot points are driven not by the dialogue, but by the visual clues that are thrown on the screen in quick flashes. The series begs to be watched multiple times to catalog all of the quick flashes and coloring to decipher what it all means.

Legion continues to get better and better with each episode and with each layer added and new reveal we’re forced to go back and think through what we’ve witnessed. An absolutely fantastic series that begs for multiple viewings.

Overall Rating: 9.45