A man who has been treated for schizophrenia since childhood is told that the voices are telepathy, and that something else has been living in his head the whole time.
David Haller is in a psychiatric hospital and has been in institutions for most of his life. People who call themselves mutants break him out and tell him that none of it was an illness. The season is told from inside a mind that cannot be trusted to report accurately on anything, including itself, and the direction commits to that completely.
It is the strangest-looking thing in this catalogue by a wide margin. There is a silent-film sequence, a dance number, and an episode that takes place inside a memory being edited while you watch.
Show detailsAdjacent, and deliberately never joined
The series is described as set in a universe parallel to the X-Men films, and the people who made it went out of their way not to resolve the relationship. Its makers said in the same year both that it was designed to fit the X-Men universe and that it should stand alone so nobody would have to label it.
One connection is not in dispute: David is Charles Xavier’s son, and the third season puts Xavier on screen.
The clearest evidence of the distance is a small one. The set designer tried to hide Roxxon and Stark Industries logos in the show as a joke and was told no, because Legion was not in the same universe as the Marvel Television series that were connected to the films.
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Released: February 8, 2017