David (Dan Stevens) tells a weakened Switch (Lauren Tsai) that he will change everything, and sets out with Charles (Harry Lloyd) to meet with past Farouk (Navid Negahban).
At the mansion, Gabrielle Haller (Stephanie Corneliussen), Syd (Rachel Keller), Cary (Bill Irwin) and Kerry (Amber Midthunder) are attacked by time demons.
[3] Originally, Hawley wasn't going to direct the episode, citing scheduling conflicts while writing the fourth season of Fargo and working on the post-production for his film Lucy in the Sky.
But my sense of the timeline is that Xavier and Gabrielle are going to remember what happened, and so they'll be able to raise David quite deliberately knowing the path that he ended up on, and wanting to avoid that for him.
'"[6] Hawley also rejected the idea that the finale would set up possible storylines for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying "given my level of being occupied, I wasn't really up for a lot of tangential conversations about things, and I'm not in the inner circle for the reinvention, or the Disney-fication, of what the X-Men is likely to be.
"[4] In its original American broadcast, "Chapter 27" was seen by an estimated 0.365 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18–49, according to Nielsen Media Research.
True to form, the Hawley series did not go quietly into that good night, chockablock with terror and humor and musical whimsy oozing out of every pore.
Club gave the episode a "B" grade and wrote, "The sense of uplift and moral simplicity argued for by the ending is so genuine, it feels churlish to point out the ways in which it might be compromised.
And yet the world created by Legion has been so murky and full of messy ambiguities, so touched by the very notion that nothing as simple as 'a clear answer' could ever sufficiently account for any philosophical or existential question about what it means to live a good life, that to suddenly end on a note that tries to sweep the board clean and say 'Let's do it all over, but better' with hardly an implication of the too-broad generalities implied comes across as rushed, at best.
"[11] Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone wrote, "Legion creator Noah Hawley treated these three deeply strange, often riveting, occasionally indecipherable seasons as his arena of infinite promise.
Bigger, more colorful, and more bizarre was always the order of the day, particularly as the series' facility with digital effects increased over time to make the powers of title character David Haller (Dan Stevens) appear disturbingly casual and real.
"[12] Angelica Jade Bastién of Vulture wrote, "The message Legion lands on in its closing moments — a hopeful one that suggests that we can remake ourselves and even the world into something better — is perhaps its boldest gambit.
Ultimately, Legion is a series of bristling enchantment and wonder, even when it failed to live up to the fascinating threads of family and mental illness that it wove into its story of superhero power.
Still, the series was breathtaking in its visuals, thrillingly off-kilter in its risks (like devoting so much of its runtime to musical interludes), and oddly poignant in its quiet moments.
There's no telling if or when we'll get another superhero series as refreshingly different as Legion, so instead of nitpicking its final choices, I'd rather sing the praises of its singular vision and ambition.