2017 is coming to an end! Time flies, we’re already in December and just five minutes ago we were trying to cross out some goal of the usual list that we do every year – and almost never fulfill. But…
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‘The Gifted’ 1×10 Review: Hello Stakes
When Marvel announced a new TV spinoff, and introduced the idea for The Gifted, a show about the mutants we don’t really know, about the non-famous X-Men, as it were, it sounded intriguing. But, unlike DC, which has made DCTV…
‘The Gifted’ 1×08 Review: The End Justifies The Means
I have two questions for The Gifted. No, actually, I have like 45 questions, but I only have two really important ones that, with two episodes till the end of the season, I need the show to answer right now.…
‘The Gifted’ 1×07 Review: Crossing Lines
When it’s on, The Gifted is a compelling show whose whole premise puts them in the perfect place to deliver pointed and necessary social commentary, especially in a world where, every day, it seems like, mutants or not, prejudice is…
‘The Gifted’ 1×06 Review: The Best Way Out is Always Through
Ah, to quote Robert Frost in a TV review is to get deep, but I couldn’t help but think of this line as I tried to find a common thread, not just to this season of The Gifted, but to…
‘The Gifted’ 1×05 Review: An Eye For An Eye?
Look, if there’s one thing “boXed in,” The Gifted’s fifth episode makes clear, is that this show is at its best when it’s dealing with complex morality issues that mirror real life in scary was, and of course, when Lorna…
‘The Gifted’ 1×04 Review: Risks, Hope and Lorna
“Sometimes you just have to take a risk and hope for the best,” Caitlin Strucker tells her kids, before the attempted rescue, before the action, before this show has delivered, arguably, its best moments so far in its young first…
‘The Gifted’ 1×03 Review: Aurora Borealis
Tonight The Gifted took an important step forward, a necessary step if they were going to make this ragtag group of people a team, much less a family. And yet, a part of me – for all that I genuinely…
‘The Gifted’ 1×02 Review: In Caitlin We Trust
My biggest fear regarding this episode of The Gifted was that – well, obviously, that it wouldn’t live up to an exceptional Pilot, but also that I wouldn’t learn more about the characters – that they would go plot heavy.…
‘The Gifted’ 1×01 Review: Ohana Means Family
And, you know, family means nobody gets left behind – or forgotten. Yes, you are in the right place, I promise. This is a review for The Gifted, the new kick-ass mutant drama from FOX. Except the kick-ass mutant drama,…