DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Third Season

The most comic of the CW superhero shows, Legends of Tomorrow features a colorful but often sloppy and dysfunctional team of heroes who travel through time to save the world, although their often idiosyncratic methods have a tendency to create additional problems. And that is where the third season opens, as the team—disbanded by the newly-formed Time Bureau—is reunited after Julius Caesar is sent forward in time through a time rip. With Sara/White Canary (Caity Lotz) in the Captain's seat, the old team is joined by new members Zari (Tala Ashe), an outlaw rebel from the future, and Wally West/Kid Flash (Keiynan Lonsdale) to fix other timeline tears and battle this season's villain, Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough). Along the way, they encounter P.T. Barnum (Billy Zane) in the Old West, Helen of Troy in Golden Age Hollywood, Gorilla Grodd in the jungles of Vietnam, and young Barack Obama in college. It's a busy show that paints the heroes as a reckless, amateurish bunch in the first half of the season, but eventually finds its balance between action, character humor, and superhero drama. Compiling all 21 episodes from the 2017-18 third season, extras include behind-the-scenes featurettes, crossover episodes, deleted scenes, and a gag reel. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)