Legion (TV Series) Chapter 27 (2019) User Reviews

Things I think were missed

[hamedazad · 8/10 · 13 August 2019]

So others have already said good things about this episode and I am not going to do that again. I think my 8 stars is self-explanatory. What I do want to point out are the things I was expecting in the finale, but did not see.

1. I wanted to actually witness how David manages to destroy the world, preferably with the help of time monsters. I think the time monsters was an exquisite idea that was horribly under-used. Taming them and asking them to leave was seriously anticlimactic.

2. I wanted to see how the future Syd is going to cope with the already-ended world. If David ended the world during his fight with the then-Farouk, how did the future Syd lived to be old? I wished they answered this huge question from season 2.

3. After destroying the world, I liked to see David reverting his action with the help of Switch. Switch definitely deserved more time on the show. She was basically a tool, but I guess you cannot expect more from a show ending in 27 episodes.

4. I wanted to see Aubrey Plaza. She was missed horribly. She did not get the ending she deserved. I hoped they brought her back.

So these are the things I was expecting. I needed more complexity. However, "mother" piece dropped my jaw. I am a huge fan of Pink Floyd, and this was the best place they could have used this song in. The lyrics fitted beautifully with the show. Marvelous work.

Definitely going to miss Legion. The most extremely complicated show I've seen on TV. You will be remembered.

THIS is how you end a series.

[Atlas_Redux · 10/10 · 13 August 2019]

Others already tell why it's such an amazing episode, but I will make a clarification here, since it seems to be needed. This will be a 10/10 to counter for amrashrafadel completely misunderstanding the episode and what happened. No, Farouk didn't torture him his whole life. This was hinted at already when Syd said she saw it was HIM murdering all those people. HE was the big, fat monster. HE was his own evil within. The whole time. Farouk ... was a bystander for the most part. And it hurt him. Taught him. Made him feel compassion. And the final episode just nails it, though it already was as good as confirmed.

What happened to break David was him being adopted away and them not understanding his mental issues. That in turn fed his anger. He made excuses to allow himself to have this anger. Turned him into a monster. A monster that haunted himself.

Farouk ... just watched. In horror. A king, who used to cause horror, truly saw horror. And turned.

THAT ... is what happened.

Who We Were Does Not Dictate Who We Will Be

[matthewjmiles · 9/10 · 14 August 2019]

This show - nay, this piece of art, which I adore, has sadly come to an end, though an immensely satisfying one, and I think we're all left quite awestruck in its wake. Noah Hawley is a genius and can seemingly do no wrong so far what with three excellent seasons of Fargo and now another three masterpiece seasons of Legion. The great news is that the two will blend casts once more in Fargo's upcoming season by introducing Amber Midthunder (Kerry) and Jeremie Harris (Ptonomy), which Hawley had previously done by including Jean Smart and Rachel Keller in Fargo's second season.

It is clear now that, in accordance with Hawley's creative vision for the story, each season feels like a very separate entity, paralleling a traditional story structure with new settings, characters and a shifting of the dynamic and each character's role in the story in both subsequent seasons. The pace of the action has felt progressively more intense, as the first season took its time to reveal part of the main plot, the second season picking up the pace for this final season to start during the climactic action and to sustain it throughout. It fits nicely with the final theme of the show, time itself, and one of the best aspects of this season - the Time Demons, whose Beatles design and stressful ticking approaches more than matched the horror of the Minotaur from the second season and provided a very unique and very 'Legion-esque' threat besides Farouk... or David, depending on whom you support. That is another amazing thing, the growth of this unreliable narrator in David throughout the course of the story, to the point that every character is in their own moral grey area and you can feasibly agree with either conflicting side, gives such a three-dimensional sense to them that you care what happens all the more. In this manner, the final season produced some great storylines and scenes. I won't be going into spoilers for the finale as there's already a few spoiler-focused reviews on this page, instead I want to just summarize the season as a whole and ask the question: does it achieve a quality conclusion for the story, sending off a suitable final message that stays true to the original premise of the show?

Yes, of course it does. I can understand that some people might have been unhappy with the way the finale played out, but I honestly think it was more poignant that way, and if it had gone the other way then it would more closely resemble a traditional superhero adaptation, which it never really did even despite it's 'X-Men' connections being highlighted before the show debuted. It is an extremely relieving thing to see that a distinct, individual property can still arise when someone who is passionate and carries through their own vision and is crucially ALLOWED to do whatever they see fit. Not all superhero adaptations have to be cookie-cutter films or TV shows that subscribe to the same formula that has been used since the MCU began. Not that I don't love traditional stuff - actually Agents of SHIELD is a great show that just finished a pretty good sixth season with the promise of a fantastic end in the last - but I read a lot of comics and Marvel especially was never just one thing, they blended the lines between a number of genres and literally anything was possible. Hopefully this will start to be echoed more in the films, and with the announcement of Marvel's first horror film and kung-fu flick, maybe we will see it realised.

However, I don't think I will ever like a superhero show as much as I've loved Legion, so thank you to all that played a part in creating it. It will certainly stand as a formidable cult classic for a long time to come.

Better than Game Of Thrones Ending

[hhound-61809 · 10/10 · 13 August 2019]

A little anti-climatic yes but i'm happy that David don't ending being the villain and not even Farouk there's more than Black and White i just hope to see more Legion in Marvel there's endless possibilitys here and questions without answer because that was the last season now i want Dan Stevens on MCU

Satisfying end

[cfauteux-42858 · 10/10 · 14 August 2019]

To a show that I never truly understood, I thank you for at least wrapping it all up nicely. Great performances all around, a wonderful Pink Floyd cover with lyrics that are so poignant you'd think the song was written for our poor anti hero David. Good bye X-Men for now, this was at least a proper conclusion unlike Dark Phoenix.

This is the end.

[MamadNobari97 · 10/10 · 13 August 2019]

One of the best finales ever. Although this show is not in any way perfect or anything but still gets a 10/10 from me because it's one of the most unique shows out there and there is no other show like it. And if you think that this finale was underwhelming and disappointing and you were expecting a big superhero fight between David and Amahl, then you never understood this show! Though I would've liked it to see what happened to other characters that died or what David would become but I think this was the best ending for the show. Most of the season 2 was kinda dragging a bit and the process of David becoming the villain wasn't developed good enough they compensated it with the last season that was excellent all the way through. Don't know why this show is so underrated cause as I said it's one of the most unique and weird and crazy shows. Goodbye Legion you were one of the good ones.

Mother by Legion

[assaf-591-657027 · 10/10 · 14 August 2019]

Holly smokes I almost cried in that scene, it was so much better then the original!

"I am The Alpha and The Omega, I eat monster for breakfast".

[KikyNez · 9/10 · 15 August 2019]

David Haller is an unreliable narrator.

We finish the series with the eyes of a baby, in the same way we started to watch this whole story. Since the very first episodes we get he have mental issues as well he have a very powerfull mutation that gave him the omega level status, making him unstoppable and almost "immortal" (?) as well as his nemesis.

I think it was a very well end, but I am not satisfied with a couple of things. First I don't get all the development in Faouk's character with was presented in previous seasons as the "monster" who made grow his "sickness" as Gabrielle named it. He had his own agenda, retrieveing his body to be the most powerfull being in season 2. In the first was feed from David's illness and power. Yes, he wants to help David in this finale, but I strongly believe it was his own benefit and not just because he "Loves the boy", or how he tells Charles "The one thing that started as a prison became a person". We saw from past Farouk that that wasn't an issue as he have enslaved a lot of persons, turning them into children he can manage with no difficulty. But he wants to help David because how you rule the world if there's not a world to rule? That's is my thought on it. Instead he said he did it for "paternal love" he grew on "his boy". Not buying it.

Again, David is an unreliable narrator. We have seen all of this story through his baby eyes, so... it could all be a dream of a future that it could be if he doesn't have a mother's love that can turn his anger into something else, if he doens't have someone who understand his "sickness".

On the other hand Sydney is another issue that bothers me. In season one, she fells for David, thing that was easily turned into hate for Farouk's words in Melanie's disguise in season 2. Suddenly she wants to kill him, not help him to prevent the turning into evil. Yes, David did something wrong, but, it could be different if she didn't pointed him with a gun and instead told him "I know it is you, but I want to change that, helping you to not become evil" as she said in the infamous trial AFTER she did wanted to kill him. That will always bother me. As a character I see no relevance in Syd, she had two episodes for her development that went to nothing, one in season 2, and one in this final season. Her character didn't add anything, her "finding out about life change" easily could be done by Lenny, Melanie or even Faoruk himself to add something really relevant.

This was never a love story, it is David's life all along, and his fight against himself.

We know that adult David is far gone, he is beyond saving, he kills everyone, in his narcissist and delussional view is a good do, because "no one who dies is really dead", because he will "Fix everything". Let's be honest, he didn't have to, fture Sydney started all this, if she didn't kidnaped him and make him promise "not to tell" it would have been different, she could say "You need help to not become the destryer of everything" or something like that. Anyways, he wanted to fix everything wrong, most of all the wrong done by him that he had become the one who ends the world.

David got what he wanted, maybe not the way he wanted it. His final goal is achieved, he changed the past, but he did learned it is not necessary to kill to achieve that.

I think that Harry Lloyd's performance as Charles was great, not to say the wonderful actres who played Gabrielle (I don't recall her name right now, but I guess it was Stephanie). Navid Negahban was truly incredible as the "double" Farouk, and still, he looks as he was hiding his true intentions, he was awesome. I regret we got no more Aubrey's Lenny at the end, that is so sad for me.

And Dan Stevens killed it as David and his multiple personalities Legion.

I would love a wrapped up more in style, showing us the results of the changing in past that David achieved. As for instance: to know about Kerry and Cary, Clark and Daniel, to know if Melanie and Oliver are still in the astral plane, what happened to Lenny, all of them in present. Maybe also Syd, but her is not a character I am fan of. But his was a different kind of show, we will not get any answers, just because all of this unrelaible narration.

All in all, it was an amazing end, I just needed a little more. One more episode would be appreciated (haha)... maybe a movie?

This was a hell of a journey accompanying David and his unreliable narration.

I am one of the Legion (maybe a nice personality addict to tv series) since the beginning to this end... and we hope more to come.

Incredible show, but...

[angelcorrea · 10/10 · 15 August 2019]

I give 10 stars just cause this is one of the best TV shows I've seen, but there's some things that bummed me out in the series finale.

1. The Shadow King being the worst possible thing that could happen to David in seasons 1 and 2 suddenly gets forgiveness after all the torturing he did to him?

2. Time eaters, the amazing demons that were supposed to END THE WORLD are suddenly dogs that can be stopped with a whistle.

3. Aubrey Plaza, imo the soul of the show, didn't appear in any of the last episodes and if we think about it, in the new timeline Lenny will be locked in Clockworks having a terrible life when she was already happy with her new family. (I think David was a bit selfish here)

I love Legion and I am very sad it came to an end, but I probably should have thought things were gonna be different, nevertheless it was an amazing show which truly will be missed.

Bad story choices catch up with the show

[drpunkrock · 6/10 · 12 June 2021]

Sigh, I really adore Legion for its creative ambition, the sheer vision of it. But unfortunately in mid-season 2 it starts going off the rails and they could not end it in a satisfying way. I still can't understand how David is the villain of the whole show. It should have been told more multi-layered. Syd is definitely also guilty of despicable things (raping her mother's friend and putting him in jail for example) and also endangers the world by telling David about the end of the world. She is also easily manipulated by Farouk. They still go down the "David is the worst"-route. I am also unsatisfied with the sugary ending. There should have been more consequences for characters, Aubrey Plaza should have been in the episode, we should at least get a glimpse into what the lives of the changed characters look like. Painting Farouk as the caring father also feels like it does not fit with the previous seasons. It feels like they tried to make it fit somehow, like they came up with it after they already finished the first seasons. I feel like the show neede more episodes to have a better ending and to have enough time to wrap up all the story arcs. Still a great show, especially the first half of it!

There's nothing here but my head

[sirgomes · 10/10 · 26 June 2022]

So I'm now writing for the episode but for the show. It's rare to see such a well written thing. It focuses on some weird stuff from the human psyche and it's really hard to swallow in a lot of cases. If you are a good empathy it will leave you personally satisfied. The music sounds, story, pictures, everything is made so you get the most out of David's mind. The way they managed to do that is obvious and the actors are so much more then some actors. Aubrey Plaza to me actually makes her life work here. It's so elegant to see a mutant story actually penetrating the realms of normal people's lives. Such a good work. Much following the work of Breaking Bad and Penny Dreadful. Who would have known?

2019: Narrative Degradation Mechanics

[LeCronopio · 6/10 · 14 August 2019]

2019: Narrative Degradation Mechanics

And as feared, it happened. A proposal that was immensely innovative, narrative and audiovisualy, which led to the genre of the Superhero Shows a stepping up, ends up suffering the terrible virus perpetrator of the deterioration and death of the greatest works of the decade.

Wrapped in the immense morality that dominates these times, Noah Hawley makes the unfortunate mistake of giving in to them by distorting the central plot: Everything begins in the final leg of the second season of Legion, where David, alerted by Sydney Barret of the future, is in knowledge of an impending apocalypse in which Amahl Farouk represents a determining danger. In this way, David begins an individual and desperate search to prevent that.

On the other hand, his friends and allies, and essentially Sydney Barret, are drifting from the actions of David and his enemies. In search of getting involved, Sydney Barret discovers David talking with "Future Syd" in love terms, secretly, which causes a deep state of jealousy in her (of her own self of the future). The villain of this whole story, The Shadow King, taking advantage of the opportune moment, persuades Sydney Barret that David has "betrayed her", that she cannot trust him, and that he may also be hiding greater secrets, such as TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD. To seal everything, convince David's allies of that too.

For his part, David, surprised and already aware of the dismissal (manufactured by Amahl Farouk), falls into despair and among of a couple of excesses, uses his power to alter Sydney Barret's feelings and make her love him again.

She is alerted to this by Amahl Farouk, who, seeing his vile manipulation concretized, allies with Sydney Barret and others, and begins the hunt for David, "the terrible and evil monster that will destroy the world." The big problem is that, what must necessarily happen so that the whole plot to be sustainable and credible in the end, DOES NOT HAPPEN.

The Shadow King seems to be so powerful, that he even managed to manipulate and deceive the director and creator of the show, who, stunned by the circumstances of the time, ends up losing control of the plot and playing moral at the expense of the entire script.

Noah Hawley finds no way to spin "Syndey Barret's from the future" plot with the present, so he starts throwing shots in the air playing all the cards to the misunderstood current social movements by him.

David, who did fall into disproportion committing condemnable acts, is placed at the stake as the absolute culprit and responsible for all the evil that deals with them, EVEN FOR THE MURDERER, KING OF THE INFRAMUND AND OWNER OF BABIES who now acts with his friends and former allies (the "goods" of the story).

Sydney Barret definitely forgets until the last moment that it was specifically she who initiated all the excess of David, having fallen into the manipulation of Amahl Farouk (murderer of thousands, King of the underworld, possessor of the newborn David and author of all problems and tragedy surrounding them both seasons) allying herself like everyone else with this supervillain, motivated mainly by the jealousy of his own self of the future? If it is she who warns David himself of the evil that lies ahead and of the danger of Amahl Farouk, how is it that in some credible way the Syndey Barret of the present arrives at that future moment believing that David is a monster and the true responsible for the " hypothetical end of the world "? And after everything immensely accomplished by Amahl Farouk throughout the series to end and possess David absolutely, do you meekly renounce your purpose to seek the common good of ALL?

Anyone who appreciates a good and credible narrative, can not swallow this mess of script, and can not help noticing that probably Noah Hawley, detonating the whole plot with the Sydney Barret of the future, played "the death of Jon Snow" without contemplating how much work it would take to build his series from there (if not ask Martin, who publicly confessed the time it has taken to resolve that event for his next books; NOT BECAUSE IT IS A WRONG DECISION, BUT BECAUSE IT IS ONE THAT TAKES TIME TO BE SOLVED NOT STUPIDLY).

In any case, the immense vitamin hit that Legion constituted for the television narrative of superheroes is appreciated, but the catastrophic fall in the nonsense of a work that was simply amazing can't stop regretting.

END; (Audiovisual): 8.5/10 (Script): 6/10.

What could've been a Bang ended with a Blow

[amrashrafadel · 4/10 · 13 August 2019]

How can you make a masterpiece and end it this way no one knows. Game of Thrones did it, and Legion writers copied their work.

Now many may say otherwise but this is my point of view. What I didn't like from this was 1) The main plot of Legion was Farouk being the villian who tortured David all his life, who in the first two seasons were thought of as the monster who destroys the world and should be stopped. But now in this episode he is the so goody goody who wants to help David in his adventures? Doesn't make sense does it? 2) Syd's storyline, where is it? If Syd was absent from the episode I think everything would flow the same. She didn't have any major impact for a major character like she is. Even at the end when David said to her thank you for saving him, she said she didn't, and that was all for the baby, which shows how Syd still thinks David is selfish and deserves what he still got, even after a whole episode dedicated to Syd changing her mind about him. 3) Time Demons, What were thought to be the greatest thing happened this season, turned out to be just pets who can sit and go in command. Why ruin what was good villians in this series? I have no Idea. 4) Aubrey Plaza, who many thought is the best thing that happened in this show because she gave it all her energy, sadly disappeared and wasn't even shown as a cameo. Rest in Peace Lenny, you did your part well.

Wow! Just WOW!

[benstelzer24 · 10/10 · 13 August 2019]

This show is transformative. It ends beautifully. The scene where Mother by Pink Floyd plays is probably the most powerful scene throughout the entire series. 10/10 must watch televison

A satisfactory finale to Legion.

[felipeandresrodriguezberrocal · 9/10 · 15 September 2019]

This is a satisfactory finale to that tv series where developed David Haller, Charles Xavier and Amahl Farouk. And give us an important lesson: You don't have to fight against the flow of time, you have to accept this.

So many mixed emotions

[aboalhyjaa · 10/10 · 15 September 2019]

I like it i love it I adore it i want every show to end the way this show did. One of the best i can say that proudly

A mind-bending finale

[anselmdaniel · 9/10 · 29 December 2022]

This review contains spoilers.

The eighth episode to Legion's third season is entitled 'Chapter 27'. The episode is the finale to both the season and series. David and Charles fight against Past Farouk and Present Farouk in the past. Cary, Kerry, and Syd time travel to a baby David and Gabrielle as time demons invade the house.

Legion's Chapter 27 is a thrilling conclusion to the season and series. This finale has loads of visual style and important plot points that lead to a good conclusion of the series. I enjoyed this a lot as the finale itself is a culmination of all of these plot points. Even if not all of the plot points hit the correct note, the show does well in presenting the plot.

The finale is a bittersweet conclusion to the plot and characters that the audience knows and loves. In the finale, we see all the characters getting a fresh new start with the reset that David Haller and Switch do. Although the show does not completely redeem certain characters like Amahl Farouk, the audience at least gets to see a hint of redemption and character development. Present and past Amahl Farouk was played magnificently by Navid Negahban. Likewise Syd gets a nice moment where she does not see baby David as an enemy. Although these moments do not work perfectly they work well enough for the audience to enjoy it.

Switch's story arc did feel like strange. She spent most of the season being used by an indifferent David and it was nice to see her be elevated to a higher level of existence. This choice felt like it was not foreshadowed correctly as it simply happens. There was not a grand hint that this could have happened and the time demons seemed antagonistic to Switch.

I highly recommend Legion's season three finale 'Chapter 27'.

Grade: A

Legion Season Three

Legion's third season takes place sometime after the end of the second season. Division 3 with Amahl Farouk seek to stop David from bringing an end to the world. David seeks a time traveler to give his life a reset.

The third season continues the quirkiness that the first two seasons had. The third season has many events that appear to be fantastical. The third season uses this to its benefit as the show does tell its story in a stylistic way. The final season is incredibly focused on the notion of David Haller's mental instability. The entire season drives this home. This is the running theme in the season for good or bad.

The season also explores more of David Haller's parents. This season confirms that David's father is Charles Xavier that defeated The Shadow King only for the hostile mutant to hide in David Haller. The season is about preventing this act from occurring. The season has many other themes such as redemption and compassion that are shown especially towards the end of the season. It was heartwarming to see these moments and it made Legion season three memorable.

The third season is not as broad as the second season. It feels much more focused this time as more of the season is devoted to its central characters rather than expanding the side characters. Switch is a new character that does not have much of a backstory. I wish there was an episode to explore her character but outside of the opening episodes, the audience does not know more about her. Likewise Ptonomy is not given much of a story besides being an extension of the mainframe. It is a disappointment that Ptonomy's story ended in season two.

Although not everything is perfect in the third season I would highly recommend the third season of Legion.

Grade: A.

Binched on K

[daropaz · 8/10 · 15 November 2020]

So much madness, much love&insanity, ore is it really so?. Just watch this lovely 3 season and try to figger it out your self. Held on for the ride.

Not the end I expected!

[abnermisael · 7/10 · 4 September 2019]

I was a little disappointed with the end because Amahl Farouk did a lot of evil things, so I was expecting David / Legion to kill him, or at least, banish him permanently somewhere he could not escape.

WHY?!

[supernovaws · 5/10 · 18 August 2019]

Why such a great show have such a sugar-coated finale?!

Basically Noah made same thing as a B&B in GotS - just with reverse sign. He pulls anty-Daenerys. Faruk in one episode from evil monster turn into loveable uncle. WTF was that?!

And WTF with Xavier's "We are telepathes - we can't be fooled"?! Faruk fool Legion (world's mightiest telepath and Omega-class mutant) for whole series with ease! Looks like David forgot it all along. And forgot how much time Faruk lies to him and gives him "honest" promises and offers.

I'm really dissatisfied with an ending. Almost on GotS leve of dissatisfaction.

But I can't help - and overal atmosphere and Pink Floyd tribute got me. So 5/10 instead of 3/10.

Sad. It could be one of the 10/10 shows. But for season 2 twist with "Heller is The Bad" twist and very weak final - only 8/10

destroy the whole show why dont you?

[garabedian123 · 2/10 · 28 July 2020]

Deleting my bad review....thats some low kicks..This episode was terrible and destroyed the whole show..Syd did nothing and was useless WHy not end of Farouk having manipulated Syd into thinking the world was going to be destroyed by David and then ...sigh so many unused story devices that were set up and ready to go. So ths shadow king becomes good and Switch, the unfortunate girl that got used up until she died...that would have been perfect fo such a dark show...but i guess 4th graders are watching it now and thats the target audience? We cant even say rape now. Did david rape SYd? I dont remember that but they say it happened

Played it too safe

[jazwierzchowski-26349 · 4/10 · 24 May 2021]

After 26 episodes of mind-bending production and unconvential storytelling, "Legion" finally goes full MCU in its series finale - and by that I mean predictable and unoriginal.

The villain is convinced the error of his ways, and the characters just go back in time and reverse everything bad that happened to them. Noah Hawley really couldn't come up with something more creative than that? This is the last show I would ever expect to end with such a massive cop-out.