Why Legacies Isn't As Popular As The Vampire Diaries & The Originals

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CW's Legacies may be the latest spin-off from both The Vampire Diaries andThe Originals, but three seasons into its run, it is clear the series doesn’t share the widespread appeal of its two predecessors—so why haven’t audiences warmed to the show in the same way? Beginning in 2018, teen supernatural soap Legacies is a spin-off of The Originals, a series which was itself a spin-off fromThe Vampire Diaries, with each show’s characters connecting and interacting as part of the same overlapping fictional universe.

However, despite Legacies’ canon connections to both earlier shows, Legacies had thus far proven unable to recapture either the smash-hit crossover success of The Vampire Diaries or the more modest impact of The Originals. Both earlier shows boasted better ratings and reviews than Legacies, leading many viewers and reviewers to wonder what went wrong with The Originals' spinoff. There are a number of reasons as to why Legacies isn't performing nearly as well as The Vampire Diaries or The Originals, which had problems of its own. Considering the success of The Vampire Diaries universe it's hard to understand why Legacies, which has been set up for success, can't achieve the same popularity.

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Legacies season 4 may be the end of the supernatural series; the spinoff has not yet been embraced by audiences the way The Vampire Diaries and even its less-popular spin-off The Originals was. The first two seasons of Legacies earned lower ratings than every season of The Vampire Diaries and only two of The Originals’ impressive five seasons. The question of why Legacies has failed to make the same impact as its predecessors could easily be attributed