“I thought that was it,” Purcell’s costar Nick Zano added. “I was like, ‘We were onto something and we just wrote a grenade into our own house. […] No way that this works or is believable in any sense.’ And I was 1,000 percent wrong. So ever since then I always give it a grain of salt and trust the system.”
Though we’ve had dozens of superhero shows since the current genre boom started with “Iron Man” back in 2008, most series still take an early ’00s-like approach of being extremely grounded and afraid of the comic book-y nature of the genre. Granted, there are exceptions, like “Doom Patrol” and “Loki,” but none managed to truly capture the joy and weirdness of comic book reinvention quite like “Legends of Tomorrow.” This show was constantly re-imagining itself, switching genres, villains, and even cast members with ease. It’s how the series went from a disjointed and dull spinoff of “The Flash” to a show where a telepathic time-traveling gorilla tries to kill a young Barack Obama.
There will simply never be another show quite like “Legends of Tomorrow,” as the superhero industry has grown so big and uniform that having a wild horse of a series free to experiment and make fun of itself (or have Sisqo sing the “Thong Song” while the heroes fight Marie Antoinette) would be considered too much of a risk at this point. Still, we’ll always have the time Beebo saved the day and defeated a demon.
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