Warning: The following contains full spoilers for the Season 4 premiere of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
Legends of Tomorrow has been the gold standard in the Arrowverse for the past two years now. Nothing in the Season 4 premiere suggests that will be changing this year. The series is just as zany and self-aware as ever. And with the addition of a major new team member and a new supernatural conflict that’s quickly shaping up to be superior to last year’s Mallus story, it’s doesn’t look as though Legends will fall victim to the Arrowverse Season 4 curse.
For the most part, Season 3 worked in spite of the Mallus storyline rather than because of it. That definitely hurt the show in the finale and cast doubt on the idea of another season geared towards supernatural beings mucking with the Arrowverse timeline. But even though we don’t get a clear sense of who or what the big antagonist of Season 4 is going to be, the premiere already does a better job of incorporating magical elements into the kooky framework of Legends. No totems. No poorly rendered CG demons. Instead, we get a hilarious conflict about a unicorn going on a killing spree at Woodstock.