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One can not deny the originality of the narration, but truth to be told this is the only speckle of light this show has to offer. The script is tragically fragmented, distorted and bent to the point where one seriously starts doubting if it has been written indeed under the influence of psychotropic substances. Whether or not this may be considered a “typical mark” for the show, abusing this type of construct only lead to an overall sense of “dizziness” and dislike that overgrow the spectator after a few episodes. Characters could have been better portrayed and explored, but instead the overall approach - terribly resembling the one used for advertising psychiatric treatments in the 50’s - renders each character a mere mocking version of itself, trapped inside a story that is merely a “loop”. A loop in which the viewer is caught for a while, expecting at first and then desperately hoping in the end for a “gran finale” that could somehow justify the endless loop he is been watching: but this cathartic moment never arrives, and after six episodes of “nonsense” merely describing the hallucinations of a schizophrenic patient it is too late to save the whole story. The script stretches from a single idea, not even completely original, and then develops on a single plane exploring the mental illness **** of patients with some of the most known – for the public – psychiatric pathologies. On this background, we can assist at sporadic “active” events when the show seems to find again a plot aside from the loop and the narration seems to be proceed. But in the end, nothing moves forward: each and every thread “loop back” to the initial contest of the story and the whole narration quickly becomes boring and futile. Some of the actors made an incredible effort to portrait the assigned character, but they all sadly appear to be “left alone”, without direction and with a script who has only one page: the beginning, inside a mental hospital. Photography follows closely this hackneyed and prosy script, conforming to all sorts of stereotypes already used (both on big and small screen) for describing psychiatric institutions between 1950 and 1960 with the sole exception of some horror influence. The horror sequences are by far the better part of this show: sadly, they were probably intended as “minor sequences” intended to strengthen the hype of the entire story but ended up being the sole interesting parts. “Legion” is a TV Show who can – and will be – appreciated only by the lovers of psycho-dramas tainted with a little bit of horror and wrapped with a thin veil of pseudo action.