{"id":8301,"date":"2020-08-21T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8301"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T13:14:27","slug":"legi%e2%93%a7n-the-alienist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/legi%e2%93%a7n-the-alienist\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGI\u24e7N & THE ALIENIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based off of a Marvel Comics’ character<\/a>, the 3-season television series Legion<\/a> is a study in high-concept insanity. It takes guts to make something so deliberately incoherent, to essentially thread together one concept episode<\/a> after another until you have a consistently inconsistent schizophrenic tapestry… that I can’t deny. Doesn’t mean it’s worth watching though.<\/p>\n

The Alienist<\/a> is something quite a bit different. A Victorian era<\/a> thriller with police procedural elements set in New York City, its first season mainly busies itself with highlighting police corruption and reminding people that prostitution is a gender-neutral profession. I’m not at all surprised that it had a middling reception (though I liked the first half or so), especially since the narrative basically falls apart once the focus shifts to ‘the west’.<\/p>\n

The second season, subtitled Angel of Darkness<\/em>, puts a greater focus on Sara and women’s suffrage<\/a> in general with the murder victims being babies this time rather than adolescents. The corruption elements here come across as excessive\/overwhelming and the work as a whole almost feels less like a thriller and more like soapbox preaching. Meaning I can’t really recommend watching this series either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based off of a Marvel Comics’ character, the 3-season television series Legion is a study in high-concept insanity. It takes guts to make something so deliberately incoherent, to essentially thread together one concept episode after another until you have a consistently inconsistent schizophrenic tapestry… that I can’t deny. Doesn’t mean it’s worth watching though. The Alienist is something quite a bit different. A Victorian era thriller with police procedural elements set in New York City, its first season mainly busies itself with highlighting police corruption and reminding people that prostitution is a gender-neutral profession. I’m not at all surprised that it had a middling reception (though I liked the first half or so), especially since the narrative basically falls apart once the focus shifts to ‘the west’. The second season, subtitled Angel of Darkness, puts a greater focus on Sara and women’s suffrage in general with the murder victims being babies this time rather than adolescents. The corruption elements here come across as excessive\/overwhelming and the work as a whole almost feels less like a thriller and more like soapbox preaching. Meaning I can’t really recommend watching this series either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[172,174,176,234,423,240,241,29,64,412,411,95,30],"class_list":["post-8301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-tv-related","tag-action","tag-comic-adaptation","tag-drama","tag-history","tag-marvel-comics","tag-mystery","tag-novel-adaptation","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-romance","tag-series","tag-televised","tag-thriller","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}