Marvel fans i've reviewed alot of the shows and films that the company has released and well it's safe to say that i've found the strangest one yet. Honestly I have no words to describe this pilot episode because of how weird and strange it is honestly watching this debut episode is like going on a drug trip it's that weird and odd and as far as I can tell this is set in the world of the X-Men but which continuity tho I truly cannot say as the main film continuity for the X-Men franchise is screwed up already and every TV show based on the characters live action or animated is set within it's own continuity and so here is my review of the first episode of Legion called "Chapter 1" enjoy.
Now I honestly wish that I could tell you what the plot for this episode is however I really can't work out what the plot of the episode is. Since it's that weird and strange i'm sure that there's a plot present in this episode but the only way you'd be able to work out what it was was if you yourself was on some kind of drug and even tho I saw this episode when it first aired i'm still to this very day confused as hell to what I just saw.
Starring in the episode is Dan Stevens as David Haller , Rachel Keller as Sydney Barrett and Aubrey Plaza as Lenny Busker. Also starring in the episode is Jeremie Harris as Ptonomy Wallace , Amber Midthunder as Kerry Loudermilk , Katie Aselton as Amy Haller , Jean Smart as Melanie Bird , David Ferry as Dr. Dennis Kissinger , Ellie Araiza as Philly , Matt Hamilton as Ben , Brad Mann as Rudy , Hamish Linklater as Clark Debussy and David Selby as Brubaker.
The acting in the episode I thought to be rather freaking fantastic with all of the actors no matter how big their roles was in this episode giving a truly great performance. To me what helps the acting in this episode is the fact that the script by show creator and director of this episode Noah Hawley is so freaking good as such all the actors have to do is read the lines as they are written and they'd have a solid performance that's how good this script is in my opinion.
For those of you that don't know which i'm assuming is alot of you this show is based on the Marvel Comics character also called Legion. The character was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz I honestly have no idea who this character is but glancing at the characters Wikipedia page I can tell you that he is the son of Professor X and that as a character he really hasn't been around for that long having first started appearing in comics in New Mutants Issue 25 from March 1985 as such he is a fairly new character at least in terms of comic books and I think that it was brave of FX to take a chance on a little known and like I said fairly new comic book character.
I say they were brave because it would have been super easy for them to pick one of the older X-Men characters and base a show around them. However going the opposite route means that they could change whatever they wanted to fit the show and the world that the show is set in now I have no idea if they did that or not since i've honestly never read any of the comics that this character has appeared in but I honestly wouldn't blame them if they did since the characters backstory and lore isn't set in stone like most comic book characters backstory and lore is as such they are more free to change the characters backstory and lore.
I honestly really did like the character of Lenny who as mentioned before was played by the stunning as all hell Aubrey Plaza. I;m honestly shocked that they killed this character of in the first episode mostly because Aubrey Plaza was the only big name in the shows cast and so keeping her character alive would have made sense but at the same time I think people would have expected her character to be alive and well and so killing her off says that if she can die then maybe these others characters can die as well.
To me Lenny was one of the more likeable characters in this episode mostly because you actually understood what was going in her scenes but also because she got alot of the best lines of the episode. Which to me made her character more entertaining to watch just because you knew that whatever she was going to say was going to be pure comedy gold and you can tell that Noah Hawley had a good time writing her because she's in alot of the episode.
I've said this several times in this review and i'm going to say it again but this episode is weird as all hell. Which if that was the point like your meant to feel like David like your insane then well freaking done but if that wasn't the case then I have to wonder what the point even was in making the episode like it is as well as what made you think that this was the right way to go with the your debut episode since it's going to and i'm assuming it did leave alot of people confused as all freaking heck or at least I think so anyways.
This episode is one hour and seven minuets which I feel for an episode that is really hard to follow having that long a running time really doesn't help things at all. I say this because there are huge portions of the episode that are just boring to watch and as such I found my self going on the internet while the episode was playing which for anything regardless of if it's TV show or film is never a good thing whatsoever.
Like I said this is meant to be set in the same world as the X-Men and yet there's no actual X-Men present either in this show and I believe in the series. I honestly feel that this is a huge mistake since alot of people who would be interested in this show are fans of the X-Men and so having one of the X-Men character regardless of if they appeared in any of the films or not I feel would have helped attract more people to the show.
Overall this was a really good episode or at least the parts that I could actually make out were really good. However the episode is very freaking confusing and so it's freaking hard to work out what the plot actually was (hence what I just said in the above sentence) which even tho it very well might have been what the makers of the show were going for it still makes the episode hard to follow as such this episode gets a 7 out of 10 from me.
All and I do mean all of the of the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Legion TV series fandom wiki page. Since I only went to one website for the images that I used in this review I have no choice but to recommend that you use the Legion TV series fandom wiki page just because the images there I found to be really freaking high quality which for me and I assume others is a huge plus when putting together either a review or any post.
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