Legendary

The kind of show that moves a person to fork over the fee for entry. ... "Legendary" is a thrill from start to finish, the type of soul-reviving celebration the world sorely needs.

“Ballroom taught me how to be me,” one of the competitors says, and Legendary works by being both a celebration of that self-expression and a formalized exercise in the defiant competitiveness that emboldens it.

Could we, in the two episodes sent for review, have heard more on that topic from the participants themselves? Absolutely. The thing is, the performances are spectacular, each house gets ample opportunities to tell its unique story and, however you feel about her, Jamil maintains a pretty low-key presence. Thanks more to the contestants than to the celebs (though Tyson Beckford is a fun guest judge), Legendary might live up to its name.

While the parameters are a little thin so far; the dancing is — shall we say — everything. The looks, the moves, the face, the music; these are things you didn’t know the human body could do, much less five of them in sync.