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Legion – Season 2, Episode 1 Chapter 9

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Legion – Season 2, Episode 1

Chapter 9

Aired Apr 3, 2018

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Unlikely alliances form; the search for the Shadow King begins.

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"Chapter 9" starts Legion's sophomore season with a deeper, more substantial arc while still retaining the show's splendid visuals and trippy narrative flourishes.

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Autumn Noel Kelly

Newsweek

05/23/2018

It's safe to say that dance battle sequence will go down in history as one of the greatest superhero fight scenes ever.

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Alex McLevy

AV Club

04/04/2018

A-

Legion's weird and wondrous universe is just as visually dazzling and elliptically enigmatic as ever.

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Ben Travers

IndieWire

04/04/2018

A-

Hawley expertly controls the chaos to a point where finding our way out is a fun challenge, not an exhausting burden.

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Chris Sawin

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09/01/2019

5/5

Legion plants seeds that refuse to bloom until you delve deeper into the brilliant insanity that is the rest of the season. Lunacy reigns like a senseless tsunami, but the storm eventually calms and you get a glimpse of beauty in the aftermath.

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Manny A. Castellanos

Geeks of Color

08/15/2018

Will you be confused while watching this episode? Yes, but that's Legion as a whole. We may get answers to certain questions, but often times we'll have more questions to ask.

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Drew Koenig

Tell-Tale TV

06/14/2018

4/5

Legion continues to deliver on the things that viewers come to expect from it: weird set-pieces, excellent direction, and cinematography.

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Synopsis

Unlikely alliances form; the search for the Shadow King begins.

Director: Tim Mielants
Executive Producer: Noah Hawley, Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Jeph Loeb, Simon Kinberg, Jim Chory, John Cameron
Screenwriter: Noah Hawley, Nathaniel Halpern
Network: FX
Rating: TV-MA (V|L|S)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Apr 3, 2018