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By most standards, the Production Design of the
first season of Legion was a huge success. It not
only got a fair share of nice write-ups, but it did
the job; it helped to tell a story. And, as it turned
out, it was quite a difficult story to tell.
I never did very well in school. Ask anyone. So the
concept of the "unreliable narrator" was a mystery
to me. But after I looked it up on the internet,
I thought "what luck!" The main character's
D e s i g n i n g S e t s t o D e c e i v e
A N U N R E L I A B L E D E S I G N E R
B Y M I C H A E L W Y L I E , P R O D U C T I O N D E S I G N E R
"O, what a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to deceive."
-Walter Scott
