At last a comic book TV series that delivered on its promise. Although it is very hard to go wrong with mutants.
IMDB’s synopsis states: “A suburban family is forced to go on the run when the children are discovered to possess mutant powers.”
Unlike Marvel’s Inhuman’s, The Gifted doesn’t look cheap. At least in their premiere episode. This episode did have a semi-movie quality to it, helped by the fact that it was directed by the X-MEN man himself – Bryan Singer. The effects were greats, the editing was great, the action was great. It felt very professional.
Obviously, this is FOX so timelines make no sense whatsoever, don’t even try to put things together. The TV show tries to locate itself relativity to the movies, but if you think about it for two seconds it will fall apart. So it is both located and not located in the same timeline as the movies.
It was fun seeing Polaris, Blink and Thunderbird, which are the mutants I recognized.
The Strucker family are original characters to the series. Although with that last name we might find out that they are not so original after all. It’s good to see Stephen Moyer, who plays Reed Strucker, back on the small screen. I haven’t seen him since I stopped watching True Blood in the middle of the show, but he’s a great actor. His character is a lawyer who represents mutants who have harmed humans. Amy Acker, the actress who plays the wife, Caitlin Strucker, is a classical supporting wife and has nothing to do. Too bad, I really liked her in The Cabin in the Woods.
I was pleasantly surprised by the children of the family. Natalie Alyn Lind as Lauren Strucker and Percy Hynes White as Andy Strucker are a refreshing depiction of a brother and sister. They get along, but not too much. They know each other, but not too much. They seemed to be the right amount of teenager stupid. I enjoyed their character more than I thought I will.
This show also pulled out some big guns in this episode, I hope the next one will not be a disappointment in comparison. Sure, they had the low budget versions of a few things, but boy when you do things so originally, you barely remember that the change was probably was for budget reasons.
There were some easter eggs that made me totally geek out. But I’ll let you be surprised.
I give it 8.5/10
This is the trailer for the show, it mostly contains stuff from the first episode:
Watch the first five minutes of the first episode:
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