EPISODE
SEASON
Legendary - Season 1
As for the battles of Divas, who are separated into houses, and go up against one another in a progression of dance and fashion difficulties to charm judges and win the Legendary Status
30 March 1993, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
20 August 1992, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
3 December 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 September 1967, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
November 3, 1985 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
May 27, 2020
It's so relentlessly, joyously celebratory and life-affirming in a way other ball culture representations have failed to convey.
May 24, 2020
HBO Max's lively Legendary is unapologetically queer, unabashedly fierce, and hits the runway up to speed.
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
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 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 27, 2020
Finally, there is a reality competition series set in the world of ballroom and voguing...10s across the board.
May 27, 2020
The show nails the mix of personal backstories and barn-burning performances, and the teams are insanely charismatic.
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.
