Following the struggles of Divas, who are divided into houses, and compete against each other in a series of dance and fashion challenges to woo judges and win the Legendary Status
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.
"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.
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.
