Published May 7, 2026, 2:00 p.m. ET There’s something to be said about the use of restraint in a crime drama. Less chases and gunfights, a script not trying so hard to be funny… it all adds up to a show that demands attention, like the new Netflix series Legends . LEGENDS : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?  Opening Shot: A teenager exits his apartment and picks up a soccer ball. “Liverpool. 1990.” The Gist:   We see the teen going to a party with his friends, where they shoot up heroin, only the teen ends up being unresponsive. At Oxford University, a group of students smoke heroin after a formal, and one of the women in elegant dresses is shown to also be unresponsive. At the London offices of Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, director of investigations Angus Blake (Douglas Hodge) and his head of operations, Don Clark (Steve Coogan), read about both deaths, and Blake gets called into his boss’ office. With a recession looming, PM Margaret Thatcher wants a win, so she’s targeting England’s heroin epidemic.…