Netflix's New 6-Part Crime Thriller 'Legends' Turns Forgotten History Into Gripping TV | Review Two bodies open Legends, the British crime series arriving on Netflix this week. The first belongs to a fifteen-year-old boy from a Liverpool council estate. The second is an Oxford student, dead in a posh dorm room. Both victims are linked by heroin, a drug that had transformed Britain’s drug smuggling pipeline into a lucrative, well-protected operation by 1990. The show plunges viewers directly into this reality, following a true story about how British authorities, unable to wage a traditional war on drugs, devised an unconventional strategy: recruiting Customs officers to infiltrate heroin gangs. Writer-creator Neil Forsyth, known for The Gold, crafts a tense, occasionally overstuffed thriller that balances disbelief and respect for its premise. The series follows Angus Blake, a Customs Investigations director, who delegates the operation to Don Clark, a head of operations with a troubled past. Clark assembles a team of undercover agents, each tasked with building fake identities to infiltrate Liverpool and south coast heroin networks. The recruits, unqualified by any standard, are drawn by a recruitment poster asking, “Could you offer more?” The show’s first episode traces the bureaucratic pressure from Downing Street to Blake, highlighting the absurdity of the mission. The narrative splits into two parallel investigations. In Liverpool, Kate and Bailey track a distribution network hidden in bread delivery trucks and backstreets, leading to Declan Carter, a social-climbing drug boss who operates with ruthless ambition. In London, Guy infiltrates a Turkish heroin operation centered in Green Lanes, where cafés double as distribution hubs.#netflix #neil_forsyth #steve_coogan #tom_burke #charlotte_richie
