The era of superhero dominance may or may not be coming to an end, but it’s certainly transformed. Marvel is no longer as dominant as it once was, and we’re not getting six of seven superhero movies every year anymore.
While there are plenty of reasons to have nostalgia for the peak of Marvel’s powers, there are also some projects that only exist because they were able to ride that superhero wave. One such show is Legion, which is loosely adapted from a comic book storyline and features a lead character that only die-hard comic fans know about. The three-season series follows David Haller, a man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, and who has slowly come to realize that the voices in his head might be real. Here are three reasons you should watch it on Hulu.
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Created by Noah Hawley, Legion was unafraid of taking incredibly bold swings in the world it built and in its storytelling. Not all of those swings are successful, but Legion is the rare show that feels more like its own thing than like any sort of comic book adaptation.
Sure, there are the occasional references to X-Men or whatever, but really, this is a show that brings you inside the head of someone who sees and hears a lot of crazy things, and Legion is unafraid of showing you those things in a pretty unvarnished way.
Another thing that has been woefully absent from superhero stories over the past decade is true blue romances, but that’s exactly what we have with Legion. Much of the story is focused on David’s relationship with Syd, a fellow patient at the mental institution where he currently resides.
Even as the series is very much about their relationship, though, it’s also the rare superhero show to focus its attention primarily on a person who is slowly transforming into a villain. David has immense power, and by the end of the series, you’ll come to understand exactly why he becomes the terrible person he does.
Dan Stevens has had one of the more fascinating Hollywood careers in recent memory. He’s proven that he can carry any project like The Guest, but is often relegated to smaller supporting roles (which he’s usually excellent in) in such genre fare as Abigail and Cuckoo. In Legion, though, he’s the star, and he commits to every scene with a strange blend of intensity, humor, and charisma.
Legion asks some pretty extreme things of its ensemble, but Stevens leads the way, creating a version of David that is wild, but also internally coherent. Stevens’s greatest triumph is in turning what could be a fairly unlikable character into someone you can watch and sympathize with.
All three seasons of Legion are streaming on Hulu.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?