FX’s “Legion” – A Review [Rant?]

On the surface, Legion deserves a grand amount of praise for such unique scriptwriting techniques. Showrunner Noah Hawley has taken a modern superhero mythos established by Marvel and twisted it, arguably forced it, into a new mold of highbrow television. Wednesday’s episode (“Chapter 4”) served up some classic tropes from speculative fiction such as the mind maze involved in telepathic investigations (as seen in the “X-Men” films and Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”) as well as 70’s era drug visions and American Horror Story type intrigue. The story ratcheted up the mystery behind David’s powers and if anyone was not yet afraid of The Devil With Yellow Eyes they certainly will be now.

Yet more is needed from the FX’s potential-sleeper-hit in order to earn its namesake.

Flash Fiction Friday: Group Therapy

    They pull their chairs into a circle, allowing Dr. Carlin to be the focal point of which they all centered about. He remains, as always, closest to the door of the dust-grey walls that are the basement of the church house to the First Baptist Church of Laurence County. Though there is only eight, it is more than enough to fill the space of the mildew scented basement of the lame church house. Carlin is entrusted with their mental care and they were still not used to the change. The church house certainly provided a comfortable way out of the public eye that the local rec-center certainly could not, it unfortunately was also leaving an offending stigma with its bleak colors and broken tiles that should have probably been changed back in the 1980’s. The group had a harder time sharing and Carlin was determined to watch them carefully this time around to figure out why.

He observed the men while sharing the strange trough-like urinal they shared in their restroom and he observed the women as non-nonchalantly as possible while they crammed their mouths and purses with powdered donuts and coffee.