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In Legion, David’s schizophrenia is expressed primarily through form and metaphor, with the metaphor manifesting as his unparalleled superpowers. Indeed, the show even makes the bold decision of letting its audience forget that he is mentally ill, at least for a while. So entrenched are we in its style and its convincing alignment with his perspective that we soon forget where his superpowers end and his illness begins. Indeed, we might even begin to question whether one is merely a projection of the other. Such an approach is not exclusive to Legion. We have seen it executed brilliantly in Mr. Robot, deployed literally in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, and even heard it from Kanye West in relation to his bipolar disorder (“That’s my superpower! Ain’t no disability/I’m a superhero!”). -- shelvey

Behind Blue Eyes: How Legion Season 2 Paints a Progressive Picture of Mental Illness By: Jake Shelvey “They tell you, you’re not sick; you have superpowers. And more than anything, you wanna believe it, because that means you’re not crazy.” In the first scene of Legion’s tragic Sea…