![]() The first episode was phenomenally stupid and derivative, but with the occasional bit of fun. Can smartphone apps, drones and GPS information – as well as $120m of investment – bring an end to crime, or will it turn out to be a bit more complicated than that? There was never much chance that APB would ever be much good, but with Matt Nix ( Burn Notice, Complications, The Good Guys) taking over as showrunner midway through the pilot, there was at least the possibility it might be. Fox’s attempt to do for policing what Iron Man did for World Peace, it sees Justin Kirk adopt the Robert Downey Jr mantel to become a billionaire playboy philanthropist engineer who discovers crime is bad and decides to bring his private sector technological expertise to bear on a problematic police district in Chicago. Here’s the first six minutes, followed by a trailerĬontinue reading “Review: The Gifted (US: Fox UK: Fox UK)” What’s a futuristic police state family to do, hey? And when White accidentally comes into his new powers quite publicly, it’s not long before Coby Bell ( Burn Notice) from Sentinel Services is at Acker and Moyer’s door, looking to bring them both in. Wouldn’t you know it, they’re mutants! Oh noes. Moyer is also a district attorney charged with dealing with rebel mutants, although he tries not to think too hard about what happens to them once they go through the system.Īcker and Moyer have two teenage kids: the popular Natalie Alyn Lind and the bullied loner Percy Hynes White. Not all the world’s mutants have disappeared, though, and the government’s so hacked off, it’s set up all kinds of laws and agencies to police mutants, keep them under control and make sure they don’t go around killing people. It sees Stephen Moyer ( Ultraviolet, True Blood, The Bastard Executioner) and Amy Acker ( Angel, Person of Interest) playing a happily married couple in a post-X-Men universe – that is, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants appear to have disappeared somewhere after a 9/11-style event that saw lots and lots of people killed. Although it does mention them and include their ringtone. Now we have The Gifted, which comes from the pen of Matt Nix ( Burn Notice, The Good Guys) and which doesn’t feature even one X-Man. ![]() This year, we’ve already had the truly magnificent Legion, one of 2017’s best new TV shows and so auteured by Noah Hawley you’d really have to work hard to spot it’s an X-Men show. Sure, that’s without actually including any X-Men, but X-Men-free X-Men shows seem to be working for it. Its ABC shows are pretty ropey ( Marvel’s Inhumans), cancelled ( Marvel’s Agent Carter) or lurching along like a zombie that should have already died ( Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD).īut the X-Men keep it going. Sure, the shiny lustre has come off its Netflix shows, tarnished by the second season of Marvel’s Daredevil, Marvel’s Iron Fist (why? It’s great) and Marvel’s The Defender’s. Having a few critical failures isn’t stopping them from marching on regardless, mining decades of comics for new TV shows.
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