Hey there, folks! I'm back to a full schedule this week, and Maggie and I discuss the rather disappointing penultimate episode of Legion.
It's really too bad, because I came into the second season with so much goodwill and excitement, but man they have fumbled this season pretty hard. To be fair though, a lot of the things that I didn't like about this episode Maggie didn't have as much of a problem with, so it's possible this worked a lot better for other people. In my eyes though, they squandered some really interesting opportunities and focused on stuff I really couldn't care less about.
Unfortunately, a great deal of this episode revolves around Melanie and Sydney, two characters that have nosedived from interesting yet flawed to completely incomprehensible. There's a "Devil On Your Shoulder" sequence where Melanie tries to convince Sydney that David is a psychopath, but she uses feeble arguments that Sydney seems to fall for anyway.
I dunno, guys. There's something really weird happening here, and they've only got one more episode to course-correct, so I am a little worried. I guess we will see how it goes!