EPISODE
SEASON
Legendary - Season 1
This reality series revolves around the exciting competition, where Divas come in groups, houses, and compete against each other in a series of dance and fashion challenges, in order to win the Legendary Status.
30 March 1993, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
7 September 1967, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
17 March 1977, Severn, Maryland, USA
11 February 1981, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
May 27, 2020
We only caught the first two episodes, but if there's only one reality show to keep track of this summer, then it's absolutely this.May 27, 2020
"Ballroom taught me how to be me," one of the competitors says, and Legendary works by being both a celebration of that self-expression and a formalized exercise in the defiant competitiveness that emboldens it.May 24, 2020
HBO Max's lively Legendary is unapologetically queer, unabashedly fierce, and hits the runway up to speed.May 27, 2020
Finally, there is a reality competition series set in the world of ballroom and voguing...10s across the board.May 27, 2020
Its messaging is slapdash, but its production value is slick as hell, packaging ballroom as an almost high octane sport. Whether you're an aficionado or neophyte, one has ever seen ballroom presented with such a lavish eye.May 22, 2020
Take away the fun and silliness of RuPaul's Drag Race, add more robust production values and dim the lights and you've got this self-serious bore.May 27, 2020
Thanks more to the contestants than to the celebs (though Tyson Beckford is a fun guest judge), Legendary might live up to its name.May 27, 2020
Legendary is a thrill from start to finish, the type of soul-reviving celebration the world sorely needs. Instead of distracting or numbing the viewer it enlivens and hooks us.May 27, 2020
The show nails the mix of personal backstories and barn-burning performances, and the teams are insanely charismatic.May 27, 2020
It's so relentlessly, joyously celebratory and life-affirming in a way other ball culture representations have failed to convey.