Legends [TNT - US]

Richard Dower

So....does Sean Bean die in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM7I-rUl0CU

Meh....pass.

TNT has greenlit the suspenseful spy drama Legends, starring Screen Actors Guild Award® winner Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings). TNT has ordered 10 episodes of the series, which is being produced by Fox 21. Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24), Alexander Cary (Homeland, Lie to Me) and Jonathan Levin (Charmed) serve as executive producers, along with showrunners Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, the creators of Sleeper Cell. Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor, The Day After Tomorrow) and Mark Bomback (LIve Free or Die Hard) serve as consulting producers. The pilot was directed and executive-produced David Semel (Heroes, Person of Interest) and written by Nachmanoff, who developed the story with Gordon and Bomback.

Set to premiere on TNT in 2014, Legends is based on the award-winning book by master spy novelist Robert Littell, whose CIA novel The Company served as the basis for TNT’s acclaimed 2007 miniseries. In Legends, Bean stars as Martin Odum, an undercover agent working for the FBI’s Deep Cover Operations (D.C.O.) division. Martin has the uncanny ability to transform himself into a completely different person for each job. But he begins to question his own identity when a mysterious stranger suggests that Martin isn’t the man he believes himself to be.

Legends also stars Ali Larter (Heroes) as Crystal Quest, a fellow operative who has a history with Martin and is uneasy about his return to D.C.O.; Rob Mayes (The Client List, John Dies at the End) as Troy Quinn, a former Special Ops agent with a single-minded mission-first mentality; Tina Majorino (Grey’s Anatomy, True Blood) as Maggie Harris, the newest member of the DCO team; Steve Harris (The Practice, Awake) as Nelson Gates, the director of the DCO Task Force; and Amber Valletta (Revenge) as Sonya Odum, Martin’s ex-wife; and Lux Haney Jardine (Abraham Lincon: Vampire Hunter) as Martin’s pre-teen son, Aiden.

squonk

Sounds good but I'm becoming wary of Sean Bean at this point. He seems to be the perennial 'one season man' really. Game of Thrones anyone? Ok, that was planned but there was also Missing as well....

JP Liz V1

Morris Chestnut joins

Dman001

I give Sean Bean's character 3 episodes before he's killed off...

mafaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83CMmJPpqvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivAbsRvTAso

mafaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNgpAMS_NEQ

mafaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6JxfD5nH-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjG-k1Fq1Jc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-C1YIGCJdo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW870R2Z8n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkWX9eU_vTA

mafaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDs7X7T5f0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egt_-usKGlA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiH9vXK0Bwc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Oz5STPo64

mafaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vpp8b9FpCo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJvinq6jpqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf7jEG3cgUo

mafaa

the pilot is now available on usu source

JohnK

Anyone watch the pilot? Though it was pretty good myself.

Nody

I liked it but the whole premise has been done before; the series was with a black ops department who had a boy who could place himself in the shoes of someone else with a elderly doctor and a young lady chasing him (and finding out about her own father as the series progressed) but I can't recall the name of it.

JohnK

Would that be The Pretender ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115320/ )you're thinking of?

Nody

JohnK wrote: »

Would that be The Pretender ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115320/ )you're thinking of?

Indeed; so far everything here appears to be a setup for running a similar story

Mr E

Potential!

I liked it.

DubTony

Close your eyes at the start, and Bryan Cranston could be playing Sean Beans part.

mafaa

didn't find the pilot interesting, but will remain hopeful

Agent Coulson

Very enjoyable.

Lots of potenial just hope the show runners know where they want to go with it.

calex71

We enjoyed it , and it's got Deb from Napoleon Dynamite in it

the_syco

Just saw the 1st episode there, and I quite liked it. Going to watch the 2nd one now, and see if the momentum is carried.

the_syco

Oh hell yeah! Looking good. Episode three should be smooth

Agent Coulson

Can't wait to hear his Liverpool accent

This looks like its going to be a fun show.

Mr E

I like how they're giving the show some breathing room - they're not cramming a story into one episode.

mafaa

LEGENDS show runner David Wilcox goes undercover – Interview

Really enjoyed the three episodes to date though the decision to take a week long break so early is ridiculous. It's a show which would seem to work best when viewed one after another and as such the weekly gap is rather irritating but a two week gap is inexcusable.

Legends reminds me of a less jovial Human Target and it does feel like a show that could do with an injection of humour. Far as I can tell the only attempt at some levity thus far has been the truly awful names picked for Bean's legends. The show is one of those formulaic yet flashy thrillers that's more concerned with fancy camera work than it is writing. That's not to say that the writing her is poor, it's perfectly acceptable and Bean is one of those actors whom can make any line work and he's the real draw here. There's something incredibly charismatic about him and he fits in well here, especially when he's allowed to poke a little fun at himself.

I can't see Legends ever growing into must watch TV but for some light entertainment it's the perfect fodder to throw on after a long day. There's nothing challenging here and it does little that hasn't been done before but sometimes there's nothign better than a show that knows what it wants to do and delivers on the promise. Legends is familiar yet as it's comfortable with us knowing that it manages to be damn good fun.

Heraldoffreeent

Deleted User wrote: »

Really enjoyed the three episodes to date though the decision to take a week long break so early is ridiculous. It's a show which would seem to work best when viewed one after another and as such the weekly gap is rather irritating but a two week gap is inexcusable.

Legends reminds me of a less jovial Human Target and it does feel like a show that could do with an injection of humour. Far as I can tell the only attempt at some levity thus far has been the truly awful names picked for Bean's legends. The show is one of those formulaic yet flashy thrillers that's more concerned with fancy camera work than it is writing. That's not to say that the writing her is poor, it's perfectly acceptable and Bean is one of those actors whom can make any line work and he's the real draw here. There's something incredibly charismatic about him and he fits in well here, especially when he's allowed to poke a little fun at himself.

I can't see Legends ever growing into must watch TV but for some light entertainment it's the perfect fodder to throw on after a long day. There's nothing challenging here and it does little that hasn't been done before but sometimes there's nothign better than a show that knows what it wants to do and delivers on the promise. Legends is familiar yet as it's comfortable with us knowing that it manages to be damn good fun.

?? Fourth episode is available.

Must have been on elsewhere then as it wasn't supposed to be on this week and Franklin and Bash had an in episode ad for it to air next week.

Alfred Borden

Fourth episode is top notch television

JP Liz V1

The first season of TNT’s Sean Bean fronted drama series Legends will receive its UK premiere on Wednesday September 17th at 10pm

Have to say that I'm really enjoying this, it's one of those rare shows that's content to let it's stories play out and isn't hindered by having to conveniently warp everything up in 42 minutes. The way they have meshed the story of the week into the overall arc is nicely done and allows the writers to let their stories breath, it's obvious that something is afoot and it's nice that the different players are being introduced so early and not teased at in some pre-credts scene. If you compare the show to something like The Black List you can see how effective Legends is, after almost 20 episodes of THe Black List we hadn't got a quarter as much of the over all shenanigans as Legends has delivered in 5.

While I'm not sure about that lasting appeal of Legends or that it has a story that can carry it past more than a few series, I would hope that we get at the very least a decent wrap up to the main story.

I've been watching this and have enjoyed it mostly. the first 3 episodes were very good. thought that the 4th one was completely unbelievable though - it went a step too far imo. the part

about where Bean as Dante, takes down the FBI on the way to the jet in LA and poaches the colonel couldnot have been believable to the colonel imo

. Unfortunately I do think that the plot does matter in these sorts of shows with a modern day city setting whereas in sci-fi it's not so important and these sort of crappy unbelievable situations undermine the whole thing - imo anyway.

glasso

glasso wrote: »

I've been watching this and have enjoyed it mostly. the first 3 episodes were very good. thought that the 4th one was completely unbelievable though - it went a step too far imo. the part

about where Bean as Dante, takes down the FBI on the way to the jet in LA and poaches the colonel couldnot have been believable to the colonel imo

. Unfortunately I do think that the plot does matter in these sorts of shows with a modern day city setting whereas in sci-fi it's not so important and these sort of crappy unbelievable situations undermine the whole thing - imo anyway.

It wasn't that undeliverable, Dante is a world renowned arms dealer with ties to a number of international organisations so it's not to hard to believe that he could muster up his own personal army.

well each to it's own but to me it was. being able to get the info on inside FBI movements at short notice and organise a perfect takedown and escape on the FBI home patch was just complete rubbish.

but episode 5 was pretty good! just no more faux pas hopefully.

episode 6 not bad either.

kryogen

Only started watching yesterday, about to watch episode 5 now, enjoying it so far. A healthy love of Sean Bean is the main reason I started watching this show but the drama isn't bad at all really and its pretty interesting. Bean is good

Nody

Episode 8 is really starting to open up angles; esp. the ending has me thinking that there may be a lot more information coming on what happened in

Iraq

seeing the reaction of the

kidnappers

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just watched episode nine. Ridiculous stuff really - but Bean holds it up somewhat. And the blonde FBI agent (Ali Larter) is great to look at.

sioda

Was it renewed?

sioda

sioda wrote: »

Was it renewed?

No word yet, initial ratings were great but they dipped considerably though reviews have been good and it's sold around the world. It's also relatively inexpensive to produce and as such a renewal is a 50/50 at this stage. Hopefully it gets picked up as the creator has a plan for 7 series of 10 episodes apiece which is perfect for this time of year.

kryogen

I think so, Bean is as always very watchable, the plot is a bit mad but sure nothing more off the wall then some of the stuff from 24 or shows like that in the past so can deal with it.

Looking forward to the conclusion, I felt as an episode 9 was poor actually, trying to advance the story too much in too little time, the ending in particular I felt was weak.

I love Bean though and if played right the conspiracy angle could be very interesting. Roll on next week!

Edit: Should also point out, its less expensive to make then some of the other shows and outperformed Franklin and Bash but it is failing in the key demographic market.

I hope it gets picked up and would say its about a 70/30 shot right now due to the decent numbers overall, pretty good reviews and an interesting plot that has so many possibilities and naturally, its cheap!

kryogen

kryogen wrote: »

I think so, Bean is as always very watchable, the plot is a bit mad but sure nothing more off the wall then some of the stuff from 24 or shows like that in the past so can deal with it.

Looking forward to the conclusion, I felt as an episode 9 was poor actually, trying to advance the story too much in too little time, the ending in particular I felt was weak.

I love Bean though and if played right the conspiracy angle could be very interesting. Roll on next week!

There is no next week, they aired the final two episodes back to back.

kryogen

Deleted User wrote: »

There is no next week, they aired the final two episodes back to back.

Ah, not always a great sign that, so the episode should be up to download then, edit: thanks for that Ill be watching in approx 5 minutes

Mr E

Nah, they just wanted to make the finale an event.

Good ending. Answered most questions about Martins history, and set up a massive conspiracy for season 2. If the show ended now, I wouldn't be too broken hearted, but I hope it comes back.

kryogen

Thoroughly enjoyed the ending, hope this gets renewed

JReacher84

I don't think he dies, but it's ok
bit weird

Don't see this making the 7 seasons like the poster above said the creator had planned. Too many mad escapes and inept so called elite baddies who get shot up too easily and who can be beaten up 5 at a time by 1 guy (who has been tortured for a day). 24 got away with it because it was gritty and ground-breaking at the time and 24 had the 24 hour mechanism as well (not here obviously) but it all seems samey at this point. Watchable for Bean but nothing special.

kearneybobs

Really enjoyed the first episode. Certainly gonna give this a go of it.

sioda

Officially renewed for second series great news

Agent Coulson

Returns August 25th.

No trailer yet.

Agent Coulson

Neither Ali Larter or Tina Majorino will be returning for season 2.