(Warning: The following story contains spoilers from Monday’s episode of FX’s “Legion.”)
Viewers were thrown for a literal time loop during Monday’s episode of “Legion,” when Michael Chiklis’ Vic Mackey from “The Shield” showed up. Really.
Coming back from a commercial break, Monday’s “Legion” randomly pivoted to a scene from the former FX series, which sees Mackey walk into his boss’ office (with the pre-widescreen era aspect ratio with letterbox on the sides), before abruptly going back to the “Legion.” Showrunner Noah Hawley explained that, since the episode messes with time — with multiple sudden time loops and time jumps — he wanted to give the audience the same feeling as the character.
“I think it’s really interesting to see how the characters are dealing with time travel, but I also wanted to give the audience the experience of time travel,” Hawley tells TheWrap. “[When] we go back to the show,...
Viewers were thrown for a literal time loop during Monday’s episode of “Legion,” when Michael Chiklis’ Vic Mackey from “The Shield” showed up. Really.
Coming back from a commercial break, Monday’s “Legion” randomly pivoted to a scene from the former FX series, which sees Mackey walk into his boss’ office (with the pre-widescreen era aspect ratio with letterbox on the sides), before abruptly going back to the “Legion.” Showrunner Noah Hawley explained that, since the episode messes with time — with multiple sudden time loops and time jumps — he wanted to give the audience the same feeling as the character.
“I think it’s really interesting to see how the characters are dealing with time travel, but I also wanted to give the audience the experience of time travel,” Hawley tells TheWrap. “[When] we go back to the show,...
- 7/16/2019
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
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