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Spoilers forLegions season-two finale below.
Legionis not a show that seems particularly concerned with whether or not you understand it.
First off, congratulations on theseason-three renewal.Thank you.
I hope everyones excited.
Its fun for me to be given permission to continue to play around in this genre and this medium.
So its nice to be able to continue that.
The finale is pretty brutal.Yeah.
I thought,Well, it would be interesting if it was a supervillain story on some level.
To say,How do you take a character from a sympathetic place to an unsympathetic place?
He has this vulnerability, personality-wise and psychically.
I liken it toFargoon some level.
In his mind, its a love story and its going to end as a love story.
I mean, look, its controversial.
And, as she said, Im the hero and youre just another villain.
On some level, thats the story of the show.
The question is, is there any redemption for him coming out of that?
And where do we go next?
I wont lie, I cried while watching it.
Im curious, what were the origins of that episode?
Whose idea was it?
It moved the mechanics along, but I wasnt necessarily inspired.
The key was where to place it in the season.
My first instinct was to do it first, which made the web connection nervous.
The place where it made the most sense was after Amys … lets call it death.
Im really proud of that hour.
You mentioned Amys death.
That gets at a question that I have about gender dynamics onLegion.
Theres criticism I dont know if youve read any of it thatthe show sometimes mistreats its female characters.
Yet this season, its clear you wanted to say something about the relations between men and women.
What did you want to say?Well, its a big question.
Whats interesting to me about this show is that there are no easy answers.
Not all of her choices were great.
As not all of his choices have been great.
And Lenny certainly has her history of drugs and borderline personality or whatever you want to say about her.
Which reflects a larger great-man-versus-good-man dynamic, right?
Melanie is someone who bought into this idea that her husband was a Man of Destiny.
She stood by him, and then he disappeared and she waited for him.
Obviously, that point of view then becomes weaponized by Farouk.
Which is using words that Melanie spoke, but corrupting her intent.
That Syd may be the actual protagonist of the show.
Maybe thats not great for everybody.
Maybe all people wanted was a love story in which love conquered all.
So yeah, gender of it is a big part of it.
Its going to bring up a lot of things that feel more personal, maybe.
Its the simplest ideas.
Its also a very simple machine.
Did you build them, or were they built for some other purpose?They were built, yeah.
The tuning fork was a real object and very heavy, I believe.
And we definitely built the giant bathtub plug.
Its out there, somewhere.
Its on some backlot somewhere.
I should have taken it home.
I cant wait to see whatever TV show or movie decides to use the plug.
Its just sitting there begging to be used.First, you gotta build a bathtub.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
