The second season of TNT’s spy drama Legends premiered yesterday, so executive producer Ken Biller spoke with the Hollywood Reporter to dish some details on the plans for season two.
The series, which follows Sean Bean as a covert operative, has not faired so well in the ratings. Season one averaged just a hair above 1.5 million viewers, and it seems season two has lost even more steam, with a season premiere of .676 million.
Possibly because of the mild ratings, TNT has revamped the series for its second season. They brought in Biller as showrunner earlier this year, and he’s changing a lot. According to the interview, the series will be moving in a more serialized direction instead of the more procedural structure it had in season one. Other changes include a full re-casting, minus Bean and Morris Chestnut.
From Biller, on season two:
One thing that I wanted to do this season that I thought I really owed the audience is that question of “Who is Martin Odum?” Identity is the main theme of the show. If the audience watches season two of Legends, when they get to the last episode, they will be told who Martin Odum really is. I thought it was important to not just keep teasing the audience and give them the real answers. The reward for the audience of just paying attention and sticking with it is they’re going to get a lot of answers.”
What do you think? Do you watch Legends? What did you think of the season two premiere compared to season one?
I love the show and hope it has a 3 season
I love the show and hope it has a 3 season
If they think removing Sean Bean is going to improve the show, they haven’t been watching it. Sean Bean makes the show, he breathes life into the character. I’m glad to see it have a Season 2 and I really hope for a Season 3. They should look at the writing, bringing it up to par. It’s a great premise.
I also had never heard of this show, but stumbled upon it on Netflix as a recommendation based upon other shows I’d watched. I really enjoyed Season 1 and was shocked to hear that it had such low ratings – maybe because no one knew about it or it was aired at a bad time. I watched Season 2 Episode 1 and liked it, but probably not as much as Season 1. Maybe I just didn’t like that they are drastically changing a show that I already enjoyed. I’ll try to watch more, but it sounds doubtful that it will… Read more »
Sean Bean one of the great unaclaimed actors of our time. I love this show. It’s intelligent and thought provoking. So that probably mean it is short lived. But I will watch til the end.
Legends has great potential but is in danger of becoming “lost” in its own complexities, like that other show. And like “Heroes.” Which brings up my next point:
Dumping Ali Larter– big mistake. The problem has been with the wooden writing, not the cast.
I love the show and like the direction that it is going. Keep up the good work and continue the show for next season.
My husband and I learned about this magnificent series on Netflix. I think TNT doesn’t do a good job of advertising its shows. After we watched season one on Netflix, we tried to find whether there would be a Season Two. That’s when we found out this was a TNT series!
Please do us.all a favor and promote this show and others like it to the general public!
Thanks
Laura
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A show of this type (the type you really have to pay attention to) will loose viewers in the beginning. When the writers do a good job, viewers that dropped out may return as well as new viewers. My opinion, thanks …