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‘Legion’ Season 2: What lurks in the shadows

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Welcome back to the most chaotic, surrealistic, psychotic, visually-impressive if not severely depressive, show currently on the FX channel.

Despite technically being a part of the X-Men universe, Legion is in a league all its own, in terms of storytelling, visual entertainment, and the ability to slam a lasting legacy all its own into your over-geeked head.

The show is so surreal, in fact, it’s often hard to tell truly what the show is trying to present, and how we’re supposed to react. (Which is, I think, the whole point.) This season has a tendency to try and show things from the villain POV, and just listen to how reasonable they sound, how convincing they are. Even the Shadow King, that guy that everyone started off hunting and eventually many wound up helping, bizarrely somehow, he sounds perfectly logical when he lays it out, even often in several different languages at a time.

And what is the Shadow King whispering poison into the ears of the good guys? David Haller (Dan Stevens) is the new villain in all this, a David of the future where he rules the post-apocalyptic world of his own making as a King, an Emperor even, the Bringer of Chaos and Destruction. It doesn’t help that a version of Syd (Rachel Keller) from said future has shown herself to David, missing an arm and full of dire prophecy about her future, determined to stop whatever catastrophe happened in her own future. It’s kind of exhausting.

Division 3, that shadowy organization from the Season 1, has had shakeups and re-arranged many of the game pieces, but the general murky objective of controlling the possibly world-killing mutants remains the same. The alliance with the basket-wearing Japanese guy and his lady mustache robots made little sense to me, but whatever. The battle lines of Season Two are so crossed and convoluted at this point, what with the constant flux of future, present and even past colliding.

Much to-do is made about finding the Shadow King’s body, that which was hidden among the many other secrets by the Summerland residents and a whole bunch of others, the body of the man known as Amahl Farouk (Navid Negahban). Dear old Lenny (Aubrey Plaza) got recruited from the prison she was hanging out in with Oliver (Jemaine Clement), who was also conscripted to help find Farouk’s body, but since Lenny kind of needed a body of her own to occupy, a decision was made for her that has disastrous results from David. Most of the latter episodes of Season 2 were preoccupied with the hunt for the Shadow King’s real body, and this bit of information has serious ripple repercussions inside the show.

We know from spoilers of the first season that David Haller is, in fact, the son of Charles Xavier, which makes this an X-Men jaunt. The Shadow King in his Amahl Farouk face confronted Xavier some time ago, leading him to form the X-Men. If you concur with the theory that Legion takes place after the events of Logan, another movie that can arguably said to be in the X-Men universe, then the Shadow King is attempting to incite a literal world-changing event in David. In the comics, poor David is known as Legion for several truly frightening reasons, but we’ll just end the spoilers and speculations there.

The subtle and sometimes very blatant evil expressed through amazing CGI and Narrator voice-overs in between the near-constant mental battles of all the ‘Legion’ characters are gorgeous and devastating, especially the concept of the egg birth of a delusion. Fans may not have any clue what’s going on inside a given episode of ‘Legion’ Season Two, but the cataclysmic visuals the show offers us are like a beautiful-looking but strange puzzle we the audience have to decipher for ourselves, through our own biases and explanations and delusions too. And with the events of the final episode, the likelihood of a ‘Legion’ Season 3 is very good, but who the villains and good guys will be, is anyone’s guess.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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