A few weeks ago we got a taste of what’s to come from HBO MAX‘s ballroom competition series Legendary, and now the official trailer has dropped, and it looks OVAH!
In this series highlighting modern-day ball culture, divas battle on teams called “Houses” in fashion and dance challenges including vogueing for the chance to snatch the legendary trophy and win a cash prize. Voguing is a competitive style of modern dance featuring high fashion and choreography based on poses struck by models. Legendary features eight voguing houses, each comprised of five performers and a leader—the house “parent.” The teams rotate in a round-robin format that documents a themed ball every episode from start to finish giving full access to the behind the scenes action.
The cast will include MC Dashaun Wesley and DJ MikeQ as well as celebrity judges Law Roach, Jameela Jamil, Leiomy Maldonado, and rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Emmy Award winners David Collins (Queer Eye), Rob Eric (Queer Eye), and Michael Williams (Queer Eye) serve as executive producers. Jane Mun (People’s Choice Awards, MTV Music Awards, America’s Best Dance Crew), and Josh Greenberg (Lip Sync Battle, Sunday Best, America’s Best Dance Crew) serve as executive producers and showrunners.
I’m really excited for ballroom to finally get it’s due without it being whitewashed or straightwashed (thank you Pose), and I love that Dashaun and Leiomy are part of the show. I’m just baffled as to why Megan is a judge on a show about voguing and ballroom.
There’s no word on if episodes will drop weekly or all at once (a la Netflix), but what I do know is that Legendary will premiere on Wednesday, May 27 on HBO Max.
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