Legion Season 2 makes Season 1 look restrained

The A.V. Club

"There’s more of everything, from new characters and alliances to impeccably detailed costumes and surroundings," Danette Chavez says of Season 2 of the FX Marvel series. "Jeff Russo’s eclectic score continues to set the mood (and heighten anxiety) with blood-pumping arrangements and the jagged trilling of violins. The inventive storytelling and core ensemble are (mostly) still in place, but (Noah) Hawley and (co-producer) Nathaniel Halpern have built a whole new reality that is by turns impenetrable and tenuous—as we previously learned, it all depends on the angle. But aside from the backstories and reliability of how unreliable our senses are, season two is kind of a reset, something frequent collaborators Hawley and Halpern are quite familiar with."

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