SEASON PREMIERE: This is the start of the third and final season of Noah Hawley’s breathtakingly original take on a slender slice of the Marvel Comics universe. To describe it at all is to risk falling down a rabbit hole – and that’s something to be avoided, even though Lewis Carroll’s Alice is a primary inspiration here (in a later episode this season, there’s even a tea party, featuring one of the primary characters as an obviously Mad Hatter). In my review of this final season on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, I likened Legion to a TV experience so rich and lush, so daring in sound and images as well as editing and ideas, that its closest and only major small-screen precendents are David Lynch’s original Twin Peaks and, before that, Patrick McGoohan’s original miniseries The Prisoner. If you’re new to Legion, find and stream the previous two seasons before diving in to these new ones. (It’s available on Hulu, Amazon Prime, iTunes, and elsewhere.) But if you’re up to date, strap in and hold on. The first dozen minutes of Season 3 tonight introduce a new character – the time-traveling Switch, played by Lauren Tsai (pictured) – in a way, and with an invigorating unpredictability, that’s just short of astounding.

Leave a Comment: (No HTML, 1000 chars max)

Name (required)

Email (required) (will not be published)


Type in the verification word shown on the image.

New From TVWW

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

1957: Julie Andrews Stars in 'Cinderella'

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption