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THE BULLETIN • APRIL 29 - MAY 5, 2021
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Season 6 of “DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow” premieres
Sunday on The CW.
And these creatures are particularly repulsive-
looking, sporting squid-like tentacles, tusks and
an exoskeleton, which showrunner Phil Klemmer
explains is a nod to the Roger Corman B-movie
aliens of the late 20th century.
“Our show doesn’t take itself too seriously,”
Klemmer says, “and we wanted to make a point of
taking aliens not too seriously, and we didn’t really
want it to be heavy or a metaphor for anything.
We just wanted them to be stupid aliens because
I guess our impulse as writers is ... always to come
to understand their pathology and to rehabilitate
them. And at a certain point, we just had to come
up with, ‘How can we have just the baddies be
baddies?’
“So we kind of shed our desire to complicate
everything, and so we just wanted to lean back
into the kind of frothy, trashy, low-budget
alien stuff. But at the same time that allowed
us hopefully to find emotional depth with our
(regular) characters.”
In addition to the abduction/alien storyline, the
new season will feature turns in the director’s chair
by Lotz, Macallan and former cast member Maisie
Richardson-Sellers as well as the arrival of a new
character, a pistol-packing Texan named Spooner
played by “Chicago P.D.” alum Lisseth Chavez.
After six seasons, the actors have gotten to know
their characters inside and out and Klemmer says
their performances have helped inform how the
writers write them.
“It really becomes a dialog with the performers
...,” he explains. “The real challenge comes from a
new character before you get to see what the performer’s take is. And so for Lisseth Chavez,
who plays Spooner, it’s so interesting because we had the conception of Spooner and we
wrote the premiere. But then when we watched the premiere and we hear her voice ... that
allows you to really start refining it, and our actors are just always digging deeper. ... The
truth is you could dig in with any of these characters.
“You know, you could have a Gary episode,” Klemmer says, referring to the time-bureau
agent played by Adam Tsekhman, “and you might miss the rest of the characters but you’ll
be wholly immersed in Gary’s world. And that’s the cool thing about our show, is it has a
kind of endless ability to mutate itself.”
Aliens attack the Waverider in Season 6
of ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’
After locating the Loom of Fate and getting back their slain comrades last season, the
Legends face an enemy unlike any they’ve encountered as “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”
opens for Season 6.
Premiering Sunday, May 2, on The CW, the new round finds the superhero crew of the
time ship Waverider going in search of their co-captain Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) after she’s
abducted by space aliens – who as it turns out have the ability to travel through time. So
it will take the collective powers and then some of her co-captain and significant other
Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan), plus occult detective John Constantine (Matt Ryan), reformed
arsonist Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) and historian Nate Heywood (Nick Zano), among
others, to retrieve their comrade and save the universe from these intergalactic interlopers.
Guide to the TV grids
TV Ratings:
‘G’: General audience
‘Y’: Young children
‘7’: Children over 7
‘14’: Children over 14
‘PG’: Parental guidance
‘M’: Mature audience only
PA: Parental advisory
DVS: Descriptive video service
EI: Educational/instructional
D: Dialogue
L: Language
S: Sexual situations
V: Violence
Common symbols :
HD scheduling, please
note:
’:I n stereo
Å: Closed captioning
iTV: Interactive TV program
N: Program is new
Schedules are based on standard-
definition (SD) channels. High-
definition (HD) channels may vary
by three hours when a West Coast
programming feed is not available to
your TV provider. Please refer to your
provider’s interactive TV guide for
detailed HD channel schedules.
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