If ever there was a television series to sincerely earn the numbingly overused adjective “mindfuck,” it’s David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” — but “Legion” is giving it a run for its money.
Noah Hawley’s surrealist nightmare is unlike anything else on television, a feat made doubly impressive given that the Marvel series categorically aligns with one of peak TV’s biggest trends (superhero stories), and its second season has to follow up the most magnificent mindfuckery yet put to the small screen.No, Season 2 of the FX original doesn’t upend the status quo the way “The Return” did in 2017, and yes, “Legion” has been compared to “Twin Peaks” before — there’s even an image in the new episodes (a character, really) that seems directly inspired by Lynch’s landmark eighth episode, but it’s purely coincidental (much like the Carrie Coon connection Hawley stumbled into on “Fargo”).
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