The Gifted – eMergence

Season 2 of The Gifted drops like a newborn, and drops the X titles in favor of the M because of the Mutant on Mutant drama.  Our first episode fast forwards us six months to set the stage for this season’s story.

The Gifted – 3 X 1

The holiday break is over, and The Gifted brings us back to grieve those who had to die to give the mid-season finale some gravitas, and brings new characters into the mix.

The Gifted – threat of eXtinction

The Gifted returns to the higher quality episodes we saw earlier in the season, while drawing even more from the source material.  We are even treated to a few shots of the people I expected Andy and Lauren to be.

The Gifted – “eXtreme measures”

The Gifted takes an episode to measure the height of the skateboard jumps, base jump dives, and just how many calories are in a turducken.  Actually, none of that happened, and like many things marketed as extreme, it is relatively tame.

The Gifted – “got your siX”

The Gifted gets to an episode number where they can use the X in the number for the capital letter in their title. To celebrate, we are treated to yet another hit and run strike against Sentinel Services.

The Gifted – “boXed In”

Our Gifted mutants continue their escape from the Sentinels of last episode in “boXed In.”  I would have gone for a joke about being boxed into the tropes of the genre, but they do seem to be well aware of their box and are deliberately trying to either play on it or to move past […]

The Gifted – “eXit strategy”

“eXit strategy” is our fourth episode of our biggest name non-testudines mutants’ television offering.  This time, our resistance fighters take the fight to recapture Polaris and Baron Von Reed from Sentinel Services.