Legends

British TV has ruined crime shows coming out of America for me (See Dept Q and Fool Me Once). British productions cast normal-looking people, the writing is real, the tension is palpable, and the stakes are at the right level.

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This series tells the real-life-story of one of the covertly- and hastily-thrown-together teams of people who were responsible for taking down a tightly run, extremely lucrative heroin importation and distribution system in the UK in the 1990s.

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We get a peak into what it takes to go undercover and the toll that takes. We get a real sense of the dangers involved in creating a legend for oneself and truly living it; how that choice permanently affects a person and doesn’t stop when the job is finished.

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We are also privy to the way the people who traffic, import, and sell drugs on the street think.

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This is extremely well done. From the first episode to the last, we are on the edge of our seat. Totally recommended.

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