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Turned to the wife while watching the latest episode of Legion and said "Quick question: why aren't other things this good?"
"Most things aren't good," she reminded me.
"Yeah. I knew that," I said.
So that's the goodness level that Legion has been at. Up there approaching Black Sails and Hannibal levels. I'm not saying it's like, equal, but it feels fairer to compare up than down.
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Legion isn't surprisingly good though, unlike Solo, which was not as good as Legion has been, obviously, but which I had much more modest expectations for (and it surpassed them by a wide margin).
The last time before Solo that I was so surprised by the outcome of a viewing was probably when I got around to watching Danny Kaye's The Court Jester, as part of my vague recent idea to familiarize myself with the historical context of the "age of chivalry" genre of medieval representations in films. It felt like a pertinent, but overall much more satisfying, precursor to two of my childhood favorites, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and The Princess Bride. Then I read a ton of stuff about Danny Kaye because I kinda couldn't believe he was that good and I'd never happened to see him in anything before, and found out he was a multi-talented wunderkind comic genius of Ukrainian jewish extraction (like Liev Schreiber!).
"Most things aren't good," she reminded me.
"Yeah. I knew that," I said.
So that's the goodness level that Legion has been at. Up there approaching Black Sails and Hannibal levels. I'm not saying it's like, equal, but it feels fairer to compare up than down.
Legion isn't surprisingly good though, unlike Solo, which was not as good as Legion has been, obviously, but which I had much more modest expectations for (and it surpassed them by a wide margin).
The last time before Solo that I was so surprised by the outcome of a viewing was probably when I got around to watching Danny Kaye's The Court Jester, as part of my vague recent idea to familiarize myself with the historical context of the "age of chivalry" genre of medieval representations in films. It felt like a pertinent, but overall much more satisfying, precursor to two of my childhood favorites, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and The Princess Bride. Then I read a ton of stuff about Danny Kaye because I kinda couldn't believe he was that good and I'd never happened to see him in anything before, and found out he was a multi-talented wunderkind comic genius of Ukrainian jewish extraction (like Liev Schreiber!).
