LEGION
FX, 10:00 p.m. ET
Legion is about to end. Three seasons of time-tripping, mind-blowing and reality-warping drama has just two more episodes – tonight’s and next Monday’s – to conclude what I consider the most dazzlingly visual, surrealistic, and imaginative TV series since The Prisoner and Twin Peaks. And the way I watch Legion is the way I remember watching 2001: A Space Odyssey the first time: I’ll experience it now, and try to make as much sense of it as I can, but I’ll count on understanding it later. Much later. Tonight’s penultimate episode begins with Dan Stevens, who stars as David, setting up quick catch-up scenes from previous episodes by saying, “Evidently, on Legion.” A perfect place-setter for what’s to come, which starts with a red-velvet theater scene that would have been right at home in Blue Velvet, and involves trips to the astral plane, a Garden of Eden tree of knowledge variant substituting cake for apples – and the start of a showdown that involves not only David, but his father, and the evil Farouk, and plenty of other Davids as well (pictured). That’s not to mention the time-travelers and the time-eaters – though I just did. What a wild, wonderful series.