For comparison, Taboo‘s premiere last month had a slightly larger total viewership of 1.8 million, but a slightly smaller 0.6 in the prized 18-49 age range, and Fargo – Legion show runner Noah Hawley’s other show on FX – had 2.7 million total viewers and 0.8 in 18-49.
Legion clearly benefits from a larger mix of the coveted 18-49 crowd, but it wouldn’t hurt for the show to gain a few more total viewers.
Legion is the first ever live action X-Men TV show, said to loosely take place within the same continuity of the larger X-Men universe, although it won’t crossover with the movies – at least, not initially.
Live-action comic book entertainment is becoming more common on both the big and the small screen.