15 Best TV Moments Of 2017

14. The Monster Arrives - Legion

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That headline comes straight from the title cards of this sequence itself, which makes up the highlight of Legion's seventh episode. The show had displayed both its inherent weirdness and its influences before, but it goes all out on both fronts here to haunting effect.

This is where Aubrey Plaza gets to fully unleash the Shadow King side of her persona, tormenting Syd and the rest of David's friends in a terrifying sequence that's also a full-blown silent movie homage, scored to the thrilling Bolero and complete with title cards in place of dialogue.

It's a bizarre, scary, and slightly humorous sequence, with Plaza's performance shedding any sign of humanity to instead move like a being of pure malevolence.

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