Adam Lenhardt
Senior HTF Member
This new series, made for the UK version of Disney+, premiered on Hulu today (due to the very adult content).
I really enjoyed it. It's an eight-episode half-hour comedy about Jen, an ordinary 25-year-old Irish woman living in an alternate England where everybody else got superpowers on or near to their 18th birthday. When her more accomplished, better liked young half-sister develops super strength minutes after turning 18, it sends the powerless Jen into an emotional tailspin.
Máiréad Tyers is great as Jen, as is the writing by Emma Moran. It's basically a delayed coming of age story about a young woman, her flatmates, and her exhasperating family, but in a world where the X-Men are normal, and the regular humans are the freaks. Some of the best bits are the moments in the background depicting how a world full of superpowers would differ from our own. Most people use their powers for petty things in their everyday lives, or to make a living. People, at the end of the day, are still people.
I really enjoyed it. It's an eight-episode half-hour comedy about Jen, an ordinary 25-year-old Irish woman living in an alternate England where everybody else got superpowers on or near to their 18th birthday. When her more accomplished, better liked young half-sister develops super strength minutes after turning 18, it sends the powerless Jen into an emotional tailspin.
Máiréad Tyers is great as Jen, as is the writing by Emma Moran. It's basically a delayed coming of age story about a young woman, her flatmates, and her exhasperating family, but in a world where the X-Men are normal, and the regular humans are the freaks. Some of the best bits are the moments in the background depicting how a world full of superpowers would differ from our own. Most people use their powers for petty things in their everyday lives, or to make a living. People, at the end of the day, are still people.
