Legion: 10 Reasons To Be Excited
8. Playing With Reality
From what we know about the series and have seen from the trailers, the series appears like it is going to constantly subvert expectations and keep viewers on their toes. This is always a dangerous element for a show to play with.
Misleading viewers regarding what is real and what is not then potentially making an about-turn later can leave the audience feeling betrayed and unfulfilled. However, shows have managed to pull it off. Recently, Westworld was able to provide satisfying pay-offs to reality-twisting plotlines.
It appears the show intends to show David's mental struggles in with visuals manifesting in surreal and dreamlike sequences. This way of manipulating reality gives the show's creators a lot of varied and exciting options for where they can take the show and, from the trailers, it seems they very much intend to stretch these boundaries, potentially presenting us with viewpoints from several realities, perspectives and time periods.