Some people can lie to a stranger. Martin Odum can become one, and Legends builds an entire crime thriller out of asking what that trick eventually costs him.
What is Legends about?
Martin Odum works deep-cover assignments, which means his job is not to gather information from behind a mask but to disappear entirely into a new identity for every case — a different name, a different history, a different way of walking into a room. The series follows him across these transformations, watching a man who is professionally excellent at becoming other people slowly lose track of the line between the roles he plays and whoever he was before he started playing them. That uncertainty sharpens into something more urgent when someone close to the operation suggests that even Martin's sense of his own real identity may not be reliable, pushing him into an investigation of his own past that runs alongside his undercover work rather than replacing it. Tom Burke leads the cast as Martin, with Steve Coogan, Hayley Squires, Aml Ameen, Jasmine Blackborow, Tom Hughes, Douglas Hodge and Gerald Kyd filling out the operatives, handlers and targets around him. Director Brady Hood keeps the show grounded in procedure and consequence rather than gadgetry, treating each new cover identity as a genuine psychological cost rather than a costume change.
About the cast
Tom Burke plays Martin Odum, the deep-cover operative at the center of the series. Steve Coogan, Hayley Squires, Aml Ameen, Jasmine Blackborow, Tom Hughes, Douglas Hodge and Gerald Kyd complete an ensemble of colleagues, handlers and figures from Martin's shifting cover lives.
Context & significance
Legends is a British production directed by Brady Hood, built around hour-long episodes in the action-crime-thriller mold. It sits in a lineage of undercover-identity dramas but leans harder into the psychological wear of the job than into pure action, using each new assumed identity as a way to keep asking who the real Martin actually is.
Watching Legends on Ktime
Legends streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the series is available with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles for Farsi-speaking viewers. K-Time's Farsi-first design means the Iranian diaspora can browse, queue, and follow a season-long thriller like this one entirely in their own language.