Ranking the Fox-Marvel-TV-verse so far (2018)

Previously-

• Ranking the MCU so far (2017)
• Ranking the Fox-X-Men-verse so far (2017)
• Ranking the DCEU so far (2017)
• Ranking Star Wars so far (2017)
• Ranking Batman so far (2017)
• Ranking the Marvel-TV-verse so far (2018)
• Top 25 superhero films, period.

Forgot a couple, but they're FOX, so I would have split 'em off anyway.
Dunno what's gonna happen to these after the Disney merger.
Stuff like these, Deadpool 1 & 2, and Logan are gonna make me miss Fox.

1. Legion

The best thing Marvel's ever done, ever, ever, ever.
A fucking artistic masterpiece.
Better than anything on the MCU TV list, better than Hannibal,....maybe even better than Twin Peaks.
Yeah, this is really a kickass fucking show.
And I'm in total love with Aubrey Plaza thanks to her performance in this.
If you aren't watching it, you're just not good.
You need to remedy that shit.

Anyway, it's about the illegitimate son of Professor X who's so powerful, he can warp reality, and the whole first season was spent with him figuring out if he was just a drugged up crazy person having realistic hallucinations.
And....they never 100% resolve this.
Just when you think reality has solidified, they pull the rug out from under you again.
It's a mind-fuck.
But a gorgeous one.

2. The Gifted

Just finished up the first season on Spectrum streaming.

The best X-Men incarnation put to film thus far.
I mean, yes, Legion is a better show, but I mean in capturing what X-Men is about.
X-Men is about a disguised allegory to racial/sexual/ethnic/religious prejudice.
Plus, soap opera between the characters, and heel turns, and face turns.

Certain fans *cough*Comicbookgirl19*cough* complain the movies have dropped the ball on capturing the tone and message of the comics and the 90's cartoon, and they have a point.

And I've always thought X-Men needs to be a show, because you need it to be long-form to get in all that character development, and really get that social message stuff in, and drive it home.

Well, this is that show.
It's secondary, tertiary, and made-up characters instead of the famous characters, but this is X-Men.
This is it.
Fucking watch it.
*cough*Comicbookgirl19*cough*

The fascists on the right are getting way more bold in their bigotry against Mexicans, Muslims, gays, transgendered, and refugees of any kind, so this show is as timely as the 60's when X-Men was created.

If this list were blended with the MCU one, I'd say...a close tie with "Runaways", in overall quality, but ahead of "Runaways", by a smidge because of the social message.


And, that's those.

Next, DC.
Most of it, anyway.