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When writers rule, TV gets wonderfully weird

Fargo creator Hawley again relies on surrealism in Legion, a superhero show unlike any other

AS A SUPERHERO, LEGION IS NOT STRONGER OR quippier or darker than his contemporaries. He is, however, mentally ill. At the beginning of FX’s new show based on the Marvel character, David Haller (Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens) has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and locked away in Clockworks

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