Legends of Tomorrow Season 3 Episode 6
Legends of Tomorrowis at its strongest when the cast and crew are having as much fun making the show as I am watching. The cast all have good acting chops, and the stories are often great, but the show peaks when the cast is on the edge of breaking down because someone else is being hilarious, or when their interactions are so natural it feels like they’re not even trying to act. The Freaky Fridaysituation this week gave us plenty of the former, and Brandon Routh and Tala Ashe gave us a bunch of the latter. But that’s not to say that the rest of the cast and crew didn’t shine this week. Meanwhile, the show mines so much humor out of Franz Drameh’s Stein impression and Victor Garber’s Jax. Everyone’s laughs felt genuine, right down to Neal McDonough, who vamps it up as Stax (Stein in Jax’s body). But the people doing the best work here are Garber and Drameh. Drameh putting on stuffy old Stein’s mannerisms, peppering his lines with old person jokes, and fanboying all over Hedy Lamarr is a delight to watch. Garber’s almost-Brooklyn accent as he tries to imitate Jax is gibberish, but not much more gibberish than Drameh’s fake American accent. But really, if Victor Garber goes out on “You were gonna do the nasty in the past-ey,” man, what a way to leave a show. “Helen Hunt” was as much fun as I’ve had watching Legends, and this is the earliest that the show has found its groove out of any season. I’m really hopeful for the rest of this one. -I’m pretty sure Jax and Stein’s “You’re me and I’m you” and Ray’s “Oh pancakes” are from the Jamie Lee Curtis/Lindsay Lohan Freaky Fridaythat came out in 2003. -I loved the old movie serial title card they used for this episode, rather than the traditional Waverider-flying-through-time thing. -The biggest revelation in this week’s episode: Hedy Lamarr was actually a genius. I don’t know if this was common knowledge, but this is super cool. Good on the show for dropping it in there and not explaining it. -Next week: they are 100% gonna do Apocalypse Now, only with Gorilla Grodd as Colonel Kurtz.
