Dogs & Cats, Living Together: TV's Legion

That latest ep was great btw. I'm loving this show. Same guy as fargo S2 does the soundtrack, so it has all that tense Tangerine Dreamish arpeggio stuff going on. "Traycebait" as my bf called it, lol.

hey, they're starting to pull back the curtains

Highly recommend the Reddit on this show btw, ppl coming up with some excellent theories.

Last night's episode was incredible--that final shot gave me chills.

My god. This show

we were two episodes behind. we watched the 3rd one tnite. too scary!!!

I said to Mr Veg this is like the nightmare child of David Lynch & Wes Anderson

i wanted to watch the 4th but mrs mordy needed respite

it's def not a binge show. O_O

It's one of the few shows where I really care that I'm watching it in something like real time (IE the laughably low bar that I watch one episode before the next one appears on TiVo).

I said to Mr Veg this is like the nightmare child of David Lynch & Wes Anderson

there is nothing Lynchian about this show imo

The Devil with Yellow Eyes counts, not least for the name.

all the "surreal" shit has a one-to-one plot or character function

on another note, this show should really have been about the dude and teenage girl who share a body

is Lynch yr dad or something

Simon H, I take some small umbrage at being dismissed like a child, but i'll explain my reasoning.

My reason for citing Lynch is because of the way the boogeymen-type characters are shown/revealed etc. Brief glimpses & flashes in shadowy hallways, frightening closeups that quickly cut away & the soundscapes/music that accompany to create these terrifying *experiences*. The waking-nighmare quality of those portions of the show are for me very Lynchian

Cool if you disagree, it's not a hill I have to die on

we just watched ep 4. guys, this show is so good.

my theory - the dog was the personification of his childhood innocence. At some pt something (the father?) disrupts that innocence and the dog becomes the Demon with the Yellow Eyes - a manifestation of everything that is angry and violent about David.

Jemaine Clement killing it

yes absolutely. there were so many things i liked about that episode but i would be bummed if we doesn't reprise his role (and i feel like he must)

sorry to be dismissive VG, I'm currently rewatching Twin Peaks and seeing a lot of folks make kneejerk Lynch comparisons (as people do whenever a new thing incorporates dreams and/or weird lighting schemes) and it's been rubbing me wrong. I can see where you're coming from.

if he* xp

xp no worries! <3

jemaine was awesome, so happy he's in this

i like yr dog theory mordy!

lenny = the yellow eyed man was something i wasnt ready for, holy fuck is aubrey plaza doing some good malevolent work here, goddamn i love her

lenny actually being benny is interesting. who actually got stuck in that wall and died, if anyone?

right? total mindfuck

Oh my god this show peaked with Jemaine doing beat poems

and when I say "this show" I mean "all television"

astral purgatory

The minute I realised it was Jemaine at the start I was very pleased.

I feel like I have less idea wtf is going on now tho, geez. So the ex gf isnt dead? I was going on the angle he'd killed her and blocked it out.

Or hang on, wasnt that actually her, given it obviously wasnt the doc either?

I think it was her. She dumped him after coming home and finding him all vapefrogged out with big old gross Benny

Re the Lenny/Benny thing, I think they are actually 2 people. Benny was real pre-Clockworks. Lenny was real and a CLockworks patient, until she got killed by Syd, and then the yellow eyed dude has taken on her form and overlaid the Benny memories with Lennys form. Why I have no idea,something about controlling david?

From above:

Lenny was apparently written as a middle-aged man until the show-runner met Plaza - she insisted on keeping the lines as was - which does explain her enthusiasm for the idea of having tits.

(I have no idea what this means regarding the revelation)

I wonder if they're going so far as to spread misinformation. Probably not, but.

I find the thematic underpinnings of this show a little concerning but I like the storytelling as much as anything I've ever seen on television. It also has the genre-plastic throw-shit-at-the-wall approach of a lot of the comics I like (it does seem way more Shade than anything else, even the outfits) though given the lack of humour it's maybe more Hickman than it is Morrison or Milligan.

Definitely not very Claremont though, thank fuck.

Lack of humour?

*snaps to beat poetry*

I would have agreed with it being humourless til that last episode yeah cmon.

Theres a real Kubrick vibe to the visuals and Hawley admitted he was watching clockwork orange and Quadrophenia before he worked on this which I can see.

The colouring too seems deliberate.

It's funny all the way through! Hamish Linklater's very discreet freaking out, a lot of David's reaction shots, anything with Lenny before this episode.

Good point, the vapefrog scene.

beat poetry? vapefrog? lenny? the title of that angry boy look and the scary/ridiculous appearance of the character following them around? the masturbation jokes?

yeah i have found it p funny all the way through

Whaaaat no the angriest boy and YED arent funny! Dear god, theyre frightening!

idk most of these things read as vague campy weirdness rather than actual humor, especially a conchord reciting ginsberg

clement's comic turn seems to operate on some of the same levels as syd's incongruous noir narration, they're there to indicate that Oh We're Doing This Now

actual humor is garbage. surrealism and people who think they're hip but are insufferable, when you watch other people have to suffer them, is funny

You're an odd fellow, thomp.

mh 😏 otm

I think my major block for this show rn is that I just don't find Dan Stevens' performance or the character (whose name I honestly cannot recall right now despite having watched all eps so far which is maybe an indicator) at all compelling. also it's depressing to watch Aubrey Plaza re-enact Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys.