SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Kitty_XPryde I've just seen episode 6 of this show and it's going to be the last one I'll see. The show started out great, the pilot and the next 1-2 episodes were engaging and I was really interested in how the story was going to unfold. However, as it went on I found myself getting less and less interested as the plot was becoming ridiculous, the dialogue made me cringe, the acting was atrocious (looking at you, Polaris, with your flamboyant speech-making and posing) and the characters were just dull. Now, I've been able to watch shows that contain some of these elements and still enjoy them. But...My biggest problem with the show is the choice of focus on the Von Strucker parents. Who thought it would be a good idea to make a show about mutants and then put two incredibly boring human characters (whose only job in the show is to look worried and try to stop their kids from using their powers) as the protagonists? I mean honestly, Blink joins the Mutant Underground in the first episode as a young mutant on the run from the law... Why didn't they just make her the main character, her story seems to be the only one that's interesting anyway. Or just focus on the Von Strucker kids who have to run away from home and leave their parents behind. Maybe make the parents side characters. Honestly, if I'm watching a show about mutants, the last thing I want in it is two unbelievably boring humans calling the shots. The show had a lot of potential and I'm really sorry that the showrunners decided to go in this direction.

southdavid Eventually, "The Gifted" won me over. Whilst it's clearly never anywhere near the top tier of the current TV options available, by the end of the series the show interwove itself more with the wider X-Men film and TV series enough that I was interested enough to not only keep watching, but make the decision that I am interested in a second series. The show focuses on the Strucker family, led by a reliable pair of genre hands Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker, who upon realising that their children Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind) and Andy (Percy Hynes White) are mutants, attempt to make contact with the Mutant Underground. The organisation have been put in place by the currently missing X-Men to try and keep them innocent mutants safe from Sentinel services and their shady work with Trask Industries. AS you can see from that synopsis, there are apparent links to the movie universe in the series (though no major characters from them appear in the series). Without looking to give too much away, the Hellfire Club also begins to feature as the series progresses. These links continue behind the camera, with Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Len Wiseman and Bryan Singer producing in various capacities, with the later three directing episodes too. Together they make a decent looking show whose effects, both practical and CGI are good throughout. Less successful are the characters and performances that make up the principle cast. Almost all are familiar tropes, angsty teens, heroic mutants, loners who won't join the team, unprincipled scientists out for the greater good. The only touch of variance to any of this comes from Coby Bell's Sentinel Services agent who runs the gambit (pun intended) of a man conflicted by personal loss and a belief in doing what's right. It is pretty slow too, though this picks up as the series goes on. It could do with taking a further step away from weekly stories towards a bigger season arc with a deeper story. The potential second season arc could be that story, if they progress from how the first ends. I don't think it is as good as any of the DC/CW ouput... or Netflix's Marvel shows, but it's a reasonably serviceable few hours of Network television with a couple of ideas that could elevate it if the production team choose to progress them. (Or Disney might buy Fox and cancel it all so they can make their own X-Men shows).

grakky ...there was less teen in-fighting and less humans endlessly tracking the evil mutants to their lair scenarios and m o r e mutant ability action. I feel like I am stuck on the beach in Lost all over again for the first 100 seasons...moooooove it along people

cottandy Such a good idea and such horrible realization. And the further the show goes the worse it becomes. Or you simple realize more and more with every episode how dumb the characters, the dialogues and the whole story is.Nothing good can be found here. Horrible quality overall and a waste of time.