Streaming on:<\/strong> Netflix<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Episodes viewed:<\/strong> 6 of 6<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Working for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) might seem dull \u2014 and it probably is, for the most part \u2014 but there is another, more gripping story behind the tedious bureaucracy of it all, one that\u2019s never been depicted on screen until now. Scottish screenwriter Neil Forsyth follows up BBC\u2019s The Gold<\/em> with another true-crime story that\u2019s hard to believe, this time adapting a memoir that details the 11 years Guy Stanton spent working undercover to prevent drug-smuggling.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n If that sounds serious, it often is. Legends<\/em> \u2014 the latest in an increasingly long line of gang-based shows on Netflix (see also; Top Boy<\/em>, Peaky Blinders<\/em>, Narcos<\/em>) \u2014 deals with the life-and-death stakes that people in way over their heads were forced to contend with, all for a job that hardly paid well considering the risk of it all. Scenes where various members of the team are almost found out are genuinely thrilling, and the impact that these drugs had (and continue to have) on the general public isn’t shied away from either. Note how the operation begins because a cabinet minister\u2019s daughter died from drugs, not because of the working-class lad who also died from an overdose on the exact same day.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Coogan\u2019s gravelly chief shows yet another side to the acclaimed comedian…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n But there is humour too, often in the banter shared among these officers who are just normal people trying to get by and find relief. As the operation escalates, some names might slip by as you try and keep up with the intricacies of it all. What you won\u2019t forget, however, are the two leads.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Coogan\u2019s gravelly chief shows yet another side to the acclaimed comedian, whose determination and stoic charisma just about help him pull off lines like, \u201cThe kind of legend he\u2019s building is the kind you\u2019re never really out of.\u201d Don is talking about Guy (Black Bag<\/em>‘s Tom Burke), the officer whose memoir this show is based on, the one who took to undercover life almost too well. Watching Guy try to reconcile his darker urges with doing right by his family, Queen, and country is utterly absorbing, as is Burke\u2019s performance, both he and Coogan ably fulfilling the title\u2019s promise.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n Legends is tightly wound from the get-go, a true-crime drama that sets itself apart through its top-tier cast and thrills rooted in the grimy greys of drug-ravaged Britain.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the early \u201990s, to combat Britain\u2019s escalating drug problem, inexperienced customs officers go undercover and infiltrate criminal gangs to prevent smuggling across UK borders. Don (Steve Coogan) is in charge to help guide the team as they forge new identities and try not to lose themselves in the process. Streaming on: Netflix Episodes viewed: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9375,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions\/9375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/legends.jpg\")
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