Friday, June 5, 2020

The Review: Legion Season 3



Legion Season Three 10/10

Full of spoilers. There were so many times during this season that I forgot to take a damn breath. Wow. That was great. I was sitting here a couple days ago trying to figure out what to watch and remembered that Legion was on Hulu. The idea was to watch two episodes a day. That went out the window after watching two last night and all the rest today so this will not be a recap of every episode. That is difficult with this kind of show anyway so this is mostly gonna be me talking about what I enjoyed and gushing over it. I also see from my reviews of season one and season two that I have given every season 10/10. That is a first for any series I've ever watched. It sucks that not as many people are/were talking about how great this show was.


Something I need to point out that I loved about this series is that it had an actual ending. I read that the writers planned it that way so there are no loose ends. It was not canceled with a lot more story to go. This starts off in a weird way that by now I am used to. I know that whatever is confusing me now will make sense later. This young woman is listening to audio about how to time travel properly. She starts finding clues all around the city that leads her to this building where she is surrounded by clothing racks and answering questions about who she is looking for. Once it is answered she ends up meeting David who now has a cult. Lenny is his second in command and very possessive of him.


David needs a time traveler to do something for him. Division 3 invades the cult and Syd shoots David dead. Time rewinds and Syd shoots him again. By the third time the young woman, called Switch, lets him know that this has happened before so they change plans. Farouk, working with Division 3, wants to attack in a different way. The third time they show up the entire place is gone.


David wants to go back in time and fix things. Each time they travel it gets more dangerous. Switch says that there are demons that look like blue cats that will attack them if they go back too far. David does not care. He has Lenny capture Cary to build him something to make Switch more powerful since he can't travel with her. Once he is able to all hell begins to break loose. And time demons. Fuck, those things are creepy. I have seen the Doctor Who episodes with the Weeping Angels. Fuck those. These things are way worse.


This entire season focuses on David believing that he is a good person that deserves love...even when he is jettisoning friends into the voids of space. Yeah. He does that. While David is the focus this show does a really good job of showcasing other characters and giving them stories. Syd gets to talk with the younger version of herself. She also gets to live an entire new life and take everything she learned from it into her current one. Syd is such a damn hero this season. There is a scene where she is trying to explain to David how much she loved him and he hurt her and it will not sink he. He promises to fix it. He keeps saying that as if things will be fine.


Kerry and Cary are still my favorites. Cary is still a bad ass but showed more vulnerability. Kerry has not gotten any tougher as the series has progressed but he is used to Cary being outside of his body more though she ages the longer she stays out (which is why he is an older man and she is a young woman). I take a statement back. Kerry has gotten tougher. After Cary is beaten and battered he absorbs her back into his body knowing that she will emerge freshly healed but that he will now have every injury she received. Their last scene together was touching as fuck.


I am leaving so much out. I haven't even talked about Charles Xavier being involved. Yes. There is an entire episode dedicated to how he and David's mother Gabrielle met. How she tried to raise David with her mental illness and Xavier meeting Farouk for the first time before he infected David's mind. God, this show is good! This music scenes were great as always. The acting was perfect. The effects, the music, the set design, the writing, the directing. I love everything about this show and am so happy that I ever started watching it. If you have never seen this show you need to check it out even though I have spoiled shit. There is still so much I haven't said.

Dan Stevens as David Haller/Legion
Rachel Keller as Sydney “Syd” Barrett
Aubrey Plaza as Lenny Busker
Bill Irwin as Cary Loudermilk
Navid Negahban as Amahl Farouk/Shadow King
Jeremie Harris as Ptonomy Wallace
Amber Midthunder as Kerry Loudermilk
Lauren Tsai as Jia-yi/Switch
Hamish Linklater as Clark Debussy
Jean Smart as Melanie Bird
Jemaine Clement as Oliver Bird
Harry Lloyd as Charles Xavier
Stephanie Corneliussen as Gabrielle Xavier

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