The next Penny

Legion is a weird and wonderful series, at first I didn't think I'd like it. I thought that the show got scrapped due to Executive Producer Bryan Singer being a Gay Prince Andrew. Untrue, Noah Hawley chose to follow the timeline of the comics which played out in three seasons.

The depth of Aubrey Plaza talent is bottomless, she truly is a female Robin Williams.

 
I clip of Fuck the Pain Away isn't available, pity...although Barney Fife is a sexy beast. It's in the What are you listening to thread.

I did find out that Legion is the son of Professor Charles Xavier. The show is a prelude to what he would become. This is best I could find:

 
Too bad I had to go looking for the Fuck scene, I would have been more surprised by the Professor X backstory.

When Logan was released, Legion was not yet aired. Imho Logan is the best of the X-Men films but critics complained that Professor X's seizures should not have been part of the film. They were dead wrong, the seizures were not entirely about old age. Part of it comes from him being unable to connect with his son. Both Professor X and Magneto were shaped by WW II, but Professor X left a sordid mess when he decided to become a father figure to all mutants.

The show is about David Haller's transformation to Legion.