Aubrey Plaza

• Title: Legion – Chapter 4
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With David (Dan Stevens) lost inside his own mind, his friends attempt to search for answers in the outside world by tracking down those who knew him best including his former girlfriend (Katie Aselton) and Dr. Poole (Scott Lawrence). Their investigation doesn’t give them any solid answers but does seem to confirm that Syd‘s (Rachel Keller) supposition that David is hiding his true memories under layers of fake ones. Unfortunately for one member of the team, their actions draw the attention of D3 leading to an ambush at the doctor’s secluded home.

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• Title: Legion – Chapter 3
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“Everybody in here keeps saying that I’m sane. What if they’re wrong?”

Leave to the craziest character to make the most logical deduction. Ever since he left the mental institution, David (Dan Stevens) has been surrounded by people telling him that he isn’t sick and that all his episodes and mental problems are only manifestations of his powers which he never properly learned to deal with and control. The idea that no one, other than David himself, has raised is that it isn’t necessarily and either/or proposition. Mutant or schizophrenic? Why can only one of those be true? Just because he’s a mutant doesn’t necessarily mean he doesn’t also have mental issues. And if a mutant of David’s ability is indeed crazy, what does that mean for the world?

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• Title: Legion – Chapter 1
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Imagine the most powerful person on the planet might be an escaped mental patient. Taking a far different tact to introduce us to mutant than any of the X-Men films (which were very quick to introduce and explain the abilities of each character), “Chapter 1” of Legion is more methodical as we witness David Haller (Dan Stevens) interviewed about recent events which led to the diagnosed schizophrenic leaving the mental institution. The episode slowly reveals to us, and eventually David, that the government agents are lying to him and know and understand more about David than he does himself. In the scenes of the institution we meet David’s best friend Lenny (Aubrey Plaza) and his girlfriend Syd (Rachel Keller), both of whom it appears will continue to play important roles for him outside of the institution.

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