This week Glenn Garvin reviews The CW’s Legacies and The Conners from ABC. A snippet:
The ponderous opening lines of The CW’s Legacies made me think we had crossed a new frontier in programming for teenagers. “When we’re young, we’re taught the distinction between a hero and a villain, good and evil, a savior and a lost cause,” intones the young female narrator. “But what if the only real difference is just who’s telling the story?”
To my at least moderate surprise, though, Legacies is not a teen drama about Rudolf Hess, but yet another chapter of Vampire Diaries, now in its third iteration with 14 seasons and counting, the CW version of Gunsmoke.
If you’re thinking that’s a lot of seasons to catch up on, don’t worry. One of the Legacies characters give a helpful synopsis early in the first episode that explains everything you need to know: “It’s a long story involving an ancient, vengeful witch and a bloodline curse.” (I know; it feels like they stole it out of my family photo album, too.)
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