TV has now become a focus of the MCU's Phases, but the FX X-Men spin-off series Legion is still the overall Marvel brand's most ambitious show.
TV, for better and worse, has become a bigger focus of the superhero genre since the streaming market got even more crowded with the additions of Disney+ and HBO Max. The former, in particular, has become a hot spot for the genre as the wildly lucrative Marvel Cinematic Universe incorporated the medium as a key piece in their “Phases.”
Just as important to that distinctive art direction, though, was the enticingly unsettling use of psychological horror to complement it. Seeing Dan Stevens as protagonist David Haller’s afflictions manifested around him was as psychedelic as it was genuinely horrific, especially when it threw in some body horror for good measure.
Legion occasionally makes it hard to remember that it’s a superhero TV show, but not in a way that’s cynical or otherwise condescending. Rather, it’s one of the finest and seemingly unsung recent examples of how inventive the right creative team can do with the genre, and especially so with a collection of heroes and villains as celebrated and diverse as Marvel’s X-Men.
And not because he’s constantly being malicious or intentionally misleading but because, more often than not, David himself doesn’t know what to believe. For much of Legion, the story puts the audience in his shoes to see the world and its characters through his warped point of view. Syd’s life of physical detachment, emotional isolation, bullying, and outright sexual abuse she’s suffered isn’t used for reductive shock value and is instead used as a substantive depiction of overcoming trauma — even from the damage caused by David himself.
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