‘Legion’ Season 2 Premiere Date Revealed; What’s Next For David And Lenny?

Fans have to wait two more months for the Season 2 premiere of “Legion.”

FX announced on Wednesday that the sophomore run of the Noah Hawley-created “X-Men” series will kick off on Tuesday, April 3 at 10 p.m. EDT.

According to the logline for the new season, Team Summerland headed by Melanie Bird (Jean Smart) forms an unlikely alliance with their former enemy, Division 3, after David Haller (Dan Stevens) and Oliver Bird (Jemaine Clement) go missing. Meanwhile, Amahl Farouk (Navid Negahban), who is still on the loose, is on a new path to attaining infinite and world-ending power.

Hawley told TVLine back in July that David, who was last seen getting sucked into a strange mechanical ball and floating off to the unknown at the end of the Season 1 finale, remains to be on his journey of self-discovery as Season 2 opens. “You have a character (David) who can blame… every bad thing he’s ever done on the entity (Farouk, aka the Shadow King) that’s now gone, and now is thinking, ‘I’m just a purely good person’… there’s sort of a hubris to that,” Hawley said at the time.

“I was interested in that first year of exploring the idea of an insane man in a sane world,” Hawley told Entertainment Weekly in a separate interview in the same month. “Now [for Season 2], maybe it’s flipping for me. I like the idea that David may be the sane one in an insane world.”

As for Lenny Busker (Aubrey Plaza), who was originally seen as David’s best friend in Season 1 and later became a version of Farouk, Hawley said that fans can expect more evolution from her in the new season. “What was interesting to me was to keep evolving Lenny,” Hawley said (via Deadline) last month. “I didn’t want her to become this mask worn by another person. … She’s been through a traumatic experience as well, and what’s the other side of that? What’s her culpability?”

“I was being used as a vessel in the first season,” Plaza said of her character in the freshman run of the series. “Lenny almost became like David where she doesn’t know what’s real or who she is. For season 2, it’s as though my power has been taken from me. Now we have to dig deeper.”

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