A new class is starting at Xavier’s Institute, lead by Hank McCoy (Beast), Scott Summers (Jerk, I mean, Cyclops), Emma Frost (ex-villain), and Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat). Kitty is conflicted about the class and working with a major bad guy she grew up with, Emma. But if there is anything Emma wants to do it’s helping […]
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TV Review: The Gifted S1 E12 eXtraction
May 12, 2018When last we met the Struckers were reeling from the children being kidnapped and forced to perform as lab monkeys for Dr. Campbell (who used the data he gathered to develop his own way to fuse mutant powers to enhance his Hound program, the program where he brainwashes mutants into hunting down and killing or […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1E7 eXtreme Measures
February 3, 2018One of my favorite episodes so far. Thunderbird starts by hunting down Blink, feeling she is unsafe with the SS crackdown on mutants. This leads to…well some sad stuff, but Blink is back!! She seems to be the character with the most logical head on her shoulders. Not that the Strucker kids are bad, they […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E6 Got Your SiX
January 28, 2018After Thunderbird discovers his best friend is still alive (and working for the SS), he becomes somewhat obsessed with these secret mutant detention centers and what might be happening in them. He, Reed, and Andy decide to break into a Baton Rouge federal building to find some answers. While Cait has mixed feelings about letting […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E2- rX
December 23, 2017*From here on out I might be including spoilers. Reader beware. Episode 2 launches with a flashback of the Strucker family out doing family things and father Reed fails to be a truly good person by partially protecting a mutant child and her father. At this point daughter Lauren probably already has her powers. Reed […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1E1- EXposed
December 10, 2017Spawned by the popularity of super hero shows, Fox gives up The Gifted, a post X-men tale of mutants trying to survive in a world very literally out to get them. The X-men series has always outright tackled themes of racism, violence against minorities, and systematic prejudice. Important note: While Marvel shows (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., […]