I Watch TV: Legion

What Legion has taught me is that someone should make a Doom Patrol TV show.

David Haller, a psychic X-mutant, has been in a psychiatric institution. Not-the-X-Men pull him out and tell him he’s not crazy, he’s psychic. Then they find that he is crazy, because he has a psychic parasite, The Shadow King, in his head.

Then a remix of this happens in the second season, but the base and people in charge are a lot weirder.

The first season doesn’t have a lot of plot, and the second season has a bit more, but mostly isn’t interested in it, spending one episode on alternate versions of Heller, and another on various iterations Syd Barrett’s past. These were perhaps the most compelling episodes so maybe less plot is good? Love won’t save us, love is what we’re fighting to save, is a key insight from Syd, but it’s also a wrong one, and Haller’s ideas about love are what leads us to the conclusion.

Watch This: For bonkers, arty, superhero action.
Don’t Watch This: if you want clear storylines or swiftly resolved actions.
Let Me Explain More: But not in words, look, here's a battle on the astral plane from Season 2 Episode One, in which Haller is in an isolation tank being tuned to various frequencies in order to uncover his memories of the confrontation in the club, which he experiences as an interpretive dance fight with Lenny and Oliver Bird (both under the control of the Shadow King in importantly different ways).