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Legends - Season 1
The show follows a deep-cover operative named Martin Odum with an extraordinary ability to frequently change his identity. But he soon comes to question his sanity when he meets a 'mysterious stranger'.
18 October 1978, Bronx, New York, USA
2 December 1956, Berkeley, California, USA
17 June 1965, Turkey
1984, Lagos, Nigeria
August 11, 2014
The series works best as sort of a modern-day Mission: Impossible.
August 12, 2014
[Sean] Bean, who this time is assured of staying vertical, might have enough pop in his performance to break on through. His various identity crises -- on the job and off -- make him a nowhere man worth watching.
August 12, 2014
Darker and less escapist than TNT's other new summer entry, The Last Ship, Legends offers a down-and-dirty hero with rough edges but surrounds him with a cadre of cleaner, less sullied colleagues, making for somewhat of a tonal mish-mash.
August 13, 2014
Legends opens with Martin wrapping up a six-month assignment, but after that, the structure seems to be for him to assume and discard identities in rapid order in a way that removes much of the intrigue and emotional danger of the premise.
August 13, 2014
Martin [Sean Bean] has some kinship to Jack Bauer, which isn't surprising, since 24 creator Howard Gordon is one of the producers. But he's got his own troubles, and at least up front they make for some engaging television.
August 11, 2014
It's a pleasure to watch Bean fall into his "legends," or fake identities, even as the show pushes the boundaries of what TV audiences might accept when it comes to instantaneous computer heroics.
August 13, 2014
The idea of multiple or false identities is promising for all sorts of reasons.
August 12, 2014
Legends with Sean Bean is a show, that, like Josh Holloway's CBS series Intelligence last season, should work but doesn't due to a lack of imagination and daring.
August 13, 2014
Watching Sean Bean in his new TNT series, Legends, is like watching Michael Phelps in a kiddie pool.
August 13, 2014
The capers are so predictable in the early going that, when the ubiquitous Zeljko Ivanek shows up as a militia leader, you can't help but roll your eyes, itching for Martin [Sean Bean] to get back to the mystery of who he is.