Legion Premiere Review: 6 Ups & 2 Downs From 'Chapter 1'

1. Its Handling Of Mental Health

Legion is many things, but one of the aspects that it really puts a focus on and handles well is an area still not explored too often on TV: mental health.

There's still, sadly, a stigma around mental health, in both real life and apparently in fiction as well, almost as if its some taboo subject, or people aren't sure what they're supposed to do with it.

In its first episode, Legion takes a confident approach to the issues around mental illness. In a more grounded sense, it looks at the medication patients receive, and the care and treatments provided by places like Clockworks; it also, through David's sister (played by Katie Asleton, who nails the perfect-life suburban-wife image) starts to look at the stigma around it.

At the same time, it explores it in a more reality-bending way too, its visuals, sound, and indeed story all serving to help us understand David and his world view, at least as much as he does.

Now, onto what didn't quite work in Chapter 1...