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.
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