Rachel Bellwoar reviews the seventh episode of Legion… Thinking back on when Legion started, how is it that we’ve reached a point in the show where we can say ‘we get it already. Enough with the clarification?’ Syd interrupts Cary’s explanation of the plan because she figured it out for herself. A lot of ‘Chapter 7’ could be interrupted this way […]

Rachel Bellwoar reviews the sixth episode of Legion…Back to Clockworks. Back to known diagnoses and med cycles. ‘Chapter 6,’ instigated by the Yellow Demon, is a digression back to where Legion started. It’s a lie, that transplants David’s new allies from Summerland and makes them patients, but is it a lie that’s hurting anybody? When it’s so easy for the […]

Rachel Bellwoar reviews the fifth episode of Legion… It’s time to save the girl, David says, but a lot of what makes ‘Chapter Five’ tick is fear of losing David, not Amy. “We can’t lose him,” Dr. Bird says but lose him in what way? To Division Three, when he carries out his one-man rescue […]

Rachel Bellwoar reviews the fourth episode of Legion… ‘Chapter 4’ opens with a character we’d never met in person, Dr. Bird’s husband, Oliver (Jemaine Clement), introducing the episode as a “five act play,” like this is Masterpiece Theater. More importantly, Oliver gives us something to look for this episode, a common thread to pull all […]