Although season one of the Legion TV show on FX didn’t draw a very large total audience, it was the cable network’s second highest earner in the 18-49 demo, last year. Can it built upon its Nielsen ratings success in the second season? Will Legion be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned.
An FX sci-fi drama, centering on the X-Men character, Legion stars Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Bill Irwin, David Negahban, Jemaine Clement, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder, Hamish Linklater, and Jean Smart. The superhero thriller follows David Haller (Stevens). After being in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years, David met Syd (Keller), who helped him realize he wasn’t schizophrenic, but rather, in possession of incredible abilities. Upon exorcising the Shadow King from his body, David disappeared. Now his team must ally themselves with former nemesis Clark (Linklater) and Division III, his government organization. Meanwhile, the Shadow King, i.e. Amahl Farouk (Negahban) continues his quest for unlimited, apocalyptic power.
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For comparisons: The first season of Legion on FX averaged a 0.45 rating in the 18-49 year old viewer demographic and 950,000 viewers.
Cable ratings are typically released within a day or so of the show’s airing, except for in the case of weekends and holidays.
What do you think? Do you like the Legion TV series. Should this FX TV show be cancelled or renewed for a third season?
6/1/18 update: FX has renewed Legion for a third season.
2/4/19 update: That will be the end of the series.
They went off the rails this Season, and the ratings numbers show it.
Two thumbs down, a snap, and a head roll.
Please renewed it.
Count me out on this one. First year was great. Second year was complete loss. Waste of time and talent.
Please get it renewed so good I love it every week haven’t miss episode this season. I need more of it really cool prequel x-men people catch 2 seasons 2 to 3 weeks
I honestly think this is the greatest breathe of fresh air for a TV show. I am not a fan of the family fin “safe” stray which all the other comic tv shows wreak of. I lost interest in all of those shows. But the breathe of fresh air which is Legion has me hangin on every word. I love this show. It has many elements that I enjoy all mixed into this cerebral mind trip of a show. Every person I advised to watch has thanked me. FX needs to hang in there and keep going. Season 2 is… Read more »
Please renew Legion for season 3!
I just discovered that season 2 had started and will now watch the early season 2 episodes on my cable system. Why was there not more publcity that season 2 had begun?!
Because it suck.
Amazing show.
It is fairly complicated and you have issues of hallucinations, implanted memories and (mental)time travel at play (or is it really time travel at all?) so folks get lost.
Season 1 had great payoff and i expect the same for season 2 with the hoped for death of the parasite’s body.
That said, it is a super cool show but those with shorter attention spans, those preferring episodic and not season long payoffs need not apply and that kills ratings.
I watched all of season 1, and found it worthy, but I can’t connect with season 2, at least not so far. I’m not a “short attention span” viewer, but I found in this season’s episodes a number of scenes in which I felt, “I get it, can we move on now?” only to see the scene go on and on.
Please renew this is one of the best shows ever
For half a million viewers is best.
This show is painfully boring.
There’s no real data yet, because we Hulu subscribers are still waiting for Season 2’s release…
Please renewed so good another season.
Need more ratings people so whatnot Netflix give crap need read this that end last 1.69 totally 1 season at least more fans just saying.
I bought first season on iTunes and didn’t like it, All the story was based on hallucinations, I bet second season would be the same. Thus, I stooped buying and watching second season.
Legion is good only in mocking people who have mental problems, disgusting.
Yes please what a shame
How a show goes from exciting & brilliant one season (my favorite show last year) to completely stupid this seasons first episode is beyond me. That dance sequence in itself was ridiculous! & the mustache ladies and the basket on the head was dumb. Please tell me they didnt get new writers. I would stop watching except the preview they showed for the season looks promising, so Im hoping that this first episode was just a hiccup!
I’ve expected it to happen. It became overly self-indulgent and Hawley thinks he’s an auteur.
“the mustache ladies” are androids. The dancing scene was a representation (a good one) of a psychic battle.
Well, duh. Thanks for pointing out the obvious. My point was it is stupid.
they didn’t get new writers, if you look you will see hawley is now essentially the writer or co writer of every episode this year.
Please renewed people get rating goes up very good last year ratings need more seasons comes coming years it x-men prequel really good marvel show every will love it.