349: I've Got a Creamy Nougat

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

FX’s “Legion” TV series is based on a character from the X-Men comics, but knowing the backstory isn’t important. This isn’t another superhero comic adaptation, but something unlike anything we’ve seen before—a visual and auditory feast, great actors, and smart writing that will make sure you sit up and pay attention. If you’ve written off comic-book TV shows and movies, time to circle back and appreciate this eight-episode first season from writer/producer Noah Hawley (“Fargo”). Expensive music! Beautiful sets! And actors who used to be in “Downton Abbey”, “Parks & Recreation”, and “Designing Women”! What more could you ask for?

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 349, April 2017.
0:10.8	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.9	I'm Jason Snell, your host.
0:14.3	In this episode, we're going to be talking about a TV series that recently aired its first season here in the United States on the FX television network.
0:24.8	It's called Legion. It was an eight-episode first season. The showrunner is a guy named Noah
0:31.6	Holly. You might have read his books. It's possible. You might have seen his very much beloved by critics TV show on FX Fargo.
0:42.2	And then he did something interesting. He said, you know what? I'm going to dip into Marvel
0:46.7	comics lore because Fox has access to the X-Men characters. And I'm going to make a show
0:52.7	based on a somewhat obscure X-Men character. And I'm going to make a show based on a somewhat obscure X-Men character. And the
0:57.5	result was Legion, I think, one of the most interesting new shows I've seen in quite a long time.
1:04.7	So we're going to talk about FX's Legion. You should go see it if you haven't. We'll talk about it a
1:09.3	little bit before we fire off the spoiler horn if you want to get a flavor for it.
1:12.4	But you should totally go see it.
1:13.7	It's eight episodes.
1:14.4	It's really good.
1:15.5	Seek it out.
1:16.5	Joining me to talk about Legion tonight are the following fine gentlemen, David J. Lour.
1:22.8	Hello.
1:23.0	Hello.
1:23.9	I just have two things to say.
1:26.4	A, am I really, David? And two, Marvel Comics lore is a cousin.
1:32.0	Marvel Comics lore is your cousin? I was going to say, or is it Data's cousin? I don't know. One of those.
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