Reviews - The Gifted

TVReviewsThe Gifted

<i>The Gifted</i> is over for now, and so are a couple of its major characters

TVReviewsThe Gifted

The Gifted is over for now, and so are a couple of its major characters

Since we last left the beleaguered mutants and mutant-adjacent characters of Fox’s possibly-doomed X-Men spinoff…

Jesse Hassenger

Save

Despite a cool mutant rescue mission, The Gifted's midseason premiere looks a lot like its first season

Since we last left the quarreling semi-emo mutants of Fox’s X-Men offshoot The Gifted, the show’s ensemble and…

Save

Our regular coverage of The Gifted wraps up with an Eclipse story both wrenching and frustrating

I spoke briefly last week about my trepidation over using Baby Dawn, daughter of Polaris and her estranged love…

Save

The Gifted goes light on action as its characters feel "unMoored"

Everyone’s feeling out of place in their causes in this week’s episode of The Gifted. Well, not everyone; if…

Save

The Gifted returns, fast-paced strengths and clunky weaknesses fully intact

Throughout its first season, the strength of The Gifted, Fox’s other, not-so-trippy X-Men TV series, has not really…

Save

A two-hour season finale finds The Gifted at a crossroads where its best meets its worst

Usually when a show does a “two-hour finale,” I roll my eyes a little at the attempt to create an event out of what…

Save

Three cuckoos try to shake things up as The Gifted heads toward the end of season one

About a year ago, the great Noel Murray made a splendid observation on Twitter about TV plotting, contrasting “X…

Save

Esme moves the pieces of The Gifted in an eventful episode

I don’t know a lot about the X-Men. I mean, I think of myself as knowing more than the average person, because I…

Save

This week's episode of The Gifted follows the usual formula, until it doesn't

How much of our lives do we spend in fear of one sort or another, especially when we’re young? One of the reasons…

Save

The Gifted tries to tweak distant-dad boilerplate while under "threat of eXtinction"

No wonder Reed Strucker’s face radiates so much consternation so much of the time. In “threat of eXtinction,” we…

Save

The Gifted trips over its bad dialogue as it debates a life of crime

Michelle Veintimilla, who plays Eclipse’s ex-flame (pun not initially intended, but not avoided, either) Carmen on Th…

Save

Polaris and Caitlin have differing visions for a makeshift mutant school on The Gifted

When a show like The Gifted is premised on the introduction of one group of characters (in this show’s case, the…

Save

Polaris, Eclipse, and Dreamer anchor a powerful episode of The Gifted

So far, The Gifted has been surprisingly strong in an area where you might reasonably expect a weekly network…

Save

Crackerjack action, big questions, and bad dialogue power a brisk episode of The Gifted

One story prompt that has yet to be fully explored in the X-Men movies (and must have come up in the comics, but I’m…

Save

The Gifted taps into the power of memories but doesn’t really go anywhere with “eXodus”

“eXodus,” the third episode of The Gifted, opens with another flashback, this one of Eclipse (whose “street…

Save

The Gifted considers malfunctioning powers and mutant healthcare in its solid second outing

It’s not unusual for a show like The Gifted – comic-book pedigree; effects-intensive; hyped – to come out of the…

Save

X-Men series The Gifted is off and running in its busy first episode

In Bryan Singer’s X2, his 2003 sequel to X-Men, one of the young students at Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted…

Save

The Gifted adds an exciting yet grounded chapter to the X-Men saga

The need for safety is what kicks things off in The Gifted, Matt Nix’s Marvel superhero drama for Fox. When bullied…

Danette Chavez

10/02/17 1:15PM

Comments (31)

Save