Legends - Netflix Series

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Excellent. One the surface it's just another show about cops operating against drug dealers, but it's very good. I suppose it's because we become involved with the characters, and we've got a few.

1993 England. Heroin is making big inroads in the UK and Margret Thatcher needs some good news to show up in the press, so somebody (a whiz kid? fawning toady? grey man?) comes up with idea of tasking the Customs department with the job of stopping the flow of heroin coming into the country. So right up front we know this just a political stunt, and the guy assigned to the job knows it as well. All he is given is the ability to get a few customs agents reassigned to him, no extra money, no extra support. His plan is to send his agents into the drug dealing world undercover. He puts out a casting call for this operation and gets good response, but he only needs a few and he quickly whittles the mass down. Interesting the things he chose to test people on.

So now we've got dedicated agents of the crown operating undercover, working their way up the food chain in the heroin distribution network, believing drugs are bad, hoping their work in making a difference, and knowing deep down that this is just a political stunt and nothing will really change. The price of heroin will go up for a few weeks, and maybe a couple of people will quit, but in a couple of weeks, we'll all be back in business. I guess that's faith, and maybe that's what Sisyphus thought while he was pushing that rock up that hill. Really great show at any rate.

6 episodes