NETFLIX'S ANSWER TO SLOW HORSES WITH 'BRILLIANT' BRITISH CAST COMING SOON
Netflix has just dropped a trailer for its upcoming British crime thriller that’s not to be missed.
The short teaser for the forthcoming crime drama Legends arrived on YouTube yesterday (April 9) and has already piqued interest among viewers as many took to the comments section to share their thoughts on the Netflix show and compared it to an Apple TV+ "masterpiece".
One person posted: “A Thatcher era "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"? I am intrigued.”
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A second person said: “Brilliant cast Looks excellent!”
While a third drew a comparison to an Apple TV+ spy thriller: “so netflix wanted to make slow horses basically [sic].”
Another person added similar sentiments: “Netflix's version of Slow Horses.”
Others were also excited by the inclusion of The Prodigy’s Breathe soundtracking the trailer.
One viewer wrote: “Prodigy gave me goosebumps” and a second echoed: “Prodigy soundtrack, class actors, and style. I'll be on this like a car bonnet when it comes out.”
Legends will be released on Netflix next month and follows a group of group of ordinary men and women recruited to infiltrate Britain’s most notorious drug gangs in the hopes of bringing them down.
Each operative would have to become a Legend, assuming a brand-new identity and embodying it completely at the expense of their old life.
The six-part series will be dropped in one go on May 7 and has been written by Neil Forsyth, who was behind the BBC’s The Gold and series Guilt.
Legends boasts an impressive cast, led by Alan Partridge star Steve Coogan who enlists his recruits for this dangerous mission to win the illegal drug smuggling war going on in Britain in 1990s.
Joining him is Tom Burke of BBC’s Strike and War and Peace fame, Ghosts’ Charlotte Ritchie, Hayley Squires from I, Daniel Blake, Victoria’s Tom Hughes, Kidulthood star Aml Ameen, Shadow and Bone actress Jasmine Blackborow, and Douglas Hodge from Black Mirror.
Further casting includes Johnny Harris, Gerald Kyd, Numan Acar, Joshua Samuels, Kem Hassann and Thomas Coombes.
Speaking about Legends, creator Forsyth told Netflix’s Tudum: “I’ve written shows in the past that are about well-known events. You then tell the story behind it that isn’t so well known.
“This is unique, in that the work of the Legends is barely known at all … There was this core team of people that did all of this, and they did it almost without any public recognition.”
He went on to explain how he’d met with some of these real-life Legends, including Guy Stanton whom Forsyth spoke to when developing the series.
“I immediately got a sense of the human journey that he and others had taken in this remarkable story,” Forsyth said.
Legends will be released on Netflix on May 7
2026-04-10T07:43:34Z
