Legacy

I just saw this on the Hallmark Movies Now streaming channel. I binged it and loved it. It's a good show and it so sad it only had one season. I loved this.

It is very difficult to find a program that the entire family can watch together on a Saturday night. This is more important now, than ever, with the Coronavirus keeping us closer to home making us unable to go to the theater like we all used to so we can watch a movie. Television really needs to step up with more family-oriented programs. We recently subscribed to Hallmark Movies Now. and I came across "Legacy." It' hard to go wrong with any Hallmark movie or TV series. This was made around 1998-1999. It's a good show, but there are only 18 episodes with no closure. It was discontinued right in the middle of everything. I realize that much time has passed, but you would think someone could come up with a few final episodes that bring it all up to date and then provide closure. This is a good family show and it had a lot of potential of going a lot longer. One word of advise if you do plan to provide final episodes, aside from the theme song, please find music more suitable to the times and environment that what the show currently provides. It just does not work. Thanks so much.

I admit it... I had never even seen this show before last week. From the previews last fall, it looked like its target audience was 10-15 year old girls who love nothing more than horses and attractive young men. Then UPN made a smart move and did "Legacy" Week during the Christmas to New Years holidays when every other station was showing reruns or hokey specials. So I decided to give it a try... Hey at the very least it DID have attractive (albeit young) men.

But you know what? This show is GOOD. It is completely underrated. It has great storylines, plots, and it's not wrapped up in that romantic notion of what being a horse-breeder or a farmer is all about. I was pleasantly surprised and by Wednesday found myself eager to get home from work so that I didn't miss the show...

The premise is a family in Lexington, Kentucky post civil war but pre-famous for the Derby. We have a widowed father; his two sons, one of which is trying his hand at tobacco; two daughters, one of which carries the burden of being lady of the house amidst her teenage hormones; an orphan who is trying to find his place in this family; and a host of other characters that intermingle with the family. The interpersonal relations are intriguing, the twists and turns unexpected, and the sense of wholeness that this one family exhudes is staggering.

I highly recommend this show... It's more than mere entertainment but it doesn't stoop to armchair psychology. It is a perfect balance of people interacting in their pre-technological environment.

Like the previous poster, I thought that this was a prettified version of the family Western made to appeal to the UPN/WB generation, which I did kinda fit into at the time age wise so I came to it late.

I regret not keeping up with it. The stories were pretty well written and balanced character wise and not everything was cliched. The different relationships took me a bit to keep straight but I figure if any one can follow "One Life to Live" you can follow anything.

I have only one episode that I accidentally taped and it was when one of the sons found out about the "wicked" stepmother to be and that she lied about who she really was and tried to tell it at Logan masked ball but was prevented. I never did find out if she got the ranch/farm away from the family. Every time I see it I go "Man! I'd give a plug nickel to know if she got hers in the end..."

Just found this series a few weeks ago on Roku. So what happened to the family? How can you leave us hanging? What fool closed this down? How can we go on this way? Oh so many questions