LEGACIES seasons one to four

 

LEGACIES

 

Wow! Season four of this series is awesome, the best thing on TV right now. A spinoff that came from THE ORIGINALS which itself was a spin off of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, this surpasses both of them. All three have their built in flaws and delights but LEGACIES, about the school for witches, werewolves, and vampires is NOW consistently good.

 

It, almost unlike both previous series, has been surprising in its twists and turns and been consistently changing for the better. VAMPIRE was stuck on the Elena thing for a long time and reveled far too long on its villains and how the evil affected every member of the cast of characters that were good.

 

Fine enough, the series had more good than bad episodes for a short time in its first year it felt like a new DARK SHADOWS, only edgy and with a lot less unintentional camp factors. A fair share of great episodes.

 

THE ORIGINALS started out strong with the set of villains from VAMPIRE but in later seasons, while having some stronger sets of characters, villains and heroes (Davina, we think you’re wonderful), sometimes it made those characters lose their original (pun?) greatness and lose their way. It also had far too many plotlines that were similar and centered around “wars” between the mythological creatures that weren’t so mythic in this universe. Still, it has a fair share of great episodes and shocking turns of events and spawned a few really great characters and had at least one gay male character who could have had his own spinoff show and been great in it…but they might have transplanted him to heaven? Like many other characters?

 

LEGACIES is about several characters from both series but in the school for the vamps, wolves, and witches and the tri-brid daughter of Klaus and one of the werewolves.

 

Call it PC, call it woke, call it whatever you will, but it now features (probably, for this series, only for a short time) two males who are in deep love for each other, one a god and the other a werewolf, former bully. While that is the current draw for me, there are other inter personal relationships that bring tears to the eyes.

 

Landon finally comes to an acceptance of his mom…in the afterlife before she crosses a river to the peaceful end of the afterlife. Hope comes to terms that she had to kill Landon to save everyone and that turned off her humanity to spawn a cold version of herself that nearly killed their school leader, who himself lost two daughters, two of the larger than life but emotional wrecks of the show. A vamp male finds a girl he loves and will do anything for her.

 

MG is and always was a kind vampire who tries to help a boy who wants to be a super hero (played by KICKIN IT’s and CONAN THE BARBARIAN’s---as little boy Conan he was a stunt marvel---Leo Howard who finally gets another good series) but who has the lame power of invisibility and teleportation.

 

The god Ben would kill others to save his love Jed, the former bully and former leader of the werewolves. A character defeated him for the leadership and he became secondary. That character, a main one, died (something that happens far too much on this series and good actors leave the show!) so Jed became leader again.

 

One of the daughters of the school leader also had a girlfriend in a touching storyline.

 

Ben would even kill Jed’s friends if he had to in order to save him from his father, played by the VERY talented Luke Mitchell (of THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, THE CODE, AGENTS OF SHIELD, THE REPUBLIC OF SARAH, NEIGHBORS, H20: JUST ADD WATER, and more) as …a god named Ken!? Ken is a deadly enemy, very powerful.

 

 

All in all this series, despite its obvious origins and not just from the two spinoffs but HARRY POTTER and BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER among them, is genuine and exciting in its daring attempts to do something different with emotions and love and care. It’s outstanding but my fear is that like the now awful DC LEGENDS and the now horrid THE FLASH, it will turn from the best show on TV to the worst because of the CW and the lack of ability to keep it going.

 

I hope I am wrong and that this is an unfounded fear but to see shows like FLASH, DC LEGENDS, the 100, and far too many others go south after initial great seasons, sometimes even four seasons in, is tough.

 

For now, though LEGACIES is the best show on TV and about real people despite having witches, monsters (and yes, the show was a bit formula in season one and some of season two but I loved it then, too; there is nothing wrong with a monster of the week show!), vampires, and werewolves.

 

I’ve see nothing stronger on TV right now.