Legends of Tomorrow Review: Bay of Squids (Season 6 Episode 4)
Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 4, “Bay of Squids,” is, regrettably, not about a giant squid attacking and the Legends having to combat it. That has been done previously with the Season 4 episode “Tagumo Attacks!”
Instead, this episode takes us to the Cuba/US conflict of the 1960s where things could not be more tense and the Legends — led by Mick for a change— have all of the delicacy of a bull in a china shop. Another alien has crashed smack dab into the hottest of hot zones, which is mistaken for a mutant by the Cubans.
“Bay of Squids” marks the first really uneven and messy episode of the season but this is Legends of Tomorrow so it is still a fairly good hour of television. There’s usually a lot happening on any given episode of this series but this is the one where you can really feel the strain of that, even when multiple regular characters aren’t present.
This is also one of the rare times that the series feels tonally off-balance, something that it almost always has a really good handle on. Some of this comes down to the approach that Legends of Tomorrow takes towards time travel.
A show like Timeless, for example, has a much more sober take on the subject. It wants to show you an event or people that maybe you’re not so much aware of. Legends of Tomorrow , on the other hand, looks at something from history and wonders how madcap they can make it.
That’s a bit where the disconnect comes in with this episode because the show is taking a very stressful part of our history and making it zany, which is totally in this show’s wheelhouse but it has done this sort of thing better in the past.
Some of this comes from Behrad, who both is confused for being Che Guevara and shares an edible with Fidel Castro. It’s odd stoner comedy that doesn’t really fit with this kind of episode along with the cultural baggage that we have towards both of those figures.
It’s not bad, just in the same way that Nate getting embroiled in a nuclear football-turned-actual football isn’t bad, but it does feel extremely off-putting to surround a conflict that looms large over our history.
On the other side of the show, there’s everything surrounding Mick and how Ava is seen to be in the wrong for putting him on blast for not only landing them in Cuba but also stealing a nuke. The problem is that she is right of the most part and Mick should stick to his strong suits.
Mick isn’t a strategizer and it’s weird that the show is acting like that’s a bad thing to point out. He isn’t a leader and he never has been. Mick is at his best when he is a supporting player, backing someone else up.
He uses brute force and he’s a thief and that’s the very thing that ends up saving the day, which is practically not acknowledged at all.
Everyone has a role to play in this episode and that’s the thing that ultimately leads to their success.
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Legends of Tomorrow airs Sundays at 8/7c on The CW.
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Drew Koenig
Drew has an ongoing, borderline unhealthy obsession with pop culture, but with television in particular. When he's not aggressively trying to get out of a perpetual state of catching up, he can be found passionately defending the ending of Lost. More of his online work can be found at The Lost Cause and he also co-hosts The Lost Cause Pod.