2/26/19 10:10PM
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Since we last left the beleaguered mutants and mutant-adjacent characters of Fox’s possibly-doomed X-Men spinoff…
Reviews - The Gifted
1/01/19 10:15PM
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Since we last left the quarreling semi-emo mutants of Fox’s X-Men offshoot The Gifted, the show’s ensemble and…
10/09/18 9:05PM
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I spoke briefly last week about my trepidation over using Baby Dawn, daughter of Polaris and her estranged love…
10/02/18 9:05PM
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Everyone’s feeling out of place in their causes in this week’s episode of The Gifted. Well, not everyone; if…
9/25/18 9:05PM
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Throughout its first season, the strength of The Gifted, Fox’s other, not-so-trippy X-Men TV series, has not really…
1/15/18 11:05PM
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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…
1/01/18 10:10PM
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About a year ago, the great Noel Murray made a splendid observation on Twitter about TV plotting, contrasting “X…
12/11/17 10:30PM
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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…
12/05/17 12:05AM
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How much of our lives do we spend in fear of one sort or another, especially when we’re young? One of the reasons…
11/20/17 10:15PM
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No wonder Reed Strucker’s face radiates so much consternation so much of the time. In “threat of eXtinction,” we…
11/13/17 10:05PM
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Michelle Veintimilla, who plays Eclipse’s ex-flame (pun not initially intended, but not avoided, either) Carmen on Th…
11/06/17 10:04PM
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When a show like The Gifted is premised on the introduction of one group of characters (in this show’s case, the…
10/30/17 10:05PM
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So far, The Gifted has been surprisingly strong in an area where you might reasonably expect a weekly network…
10/23/17 10:05PM
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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…
10/16/17 10:05PM
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“eXodus,” the third episode of The Gifted, opens with another flashback, this one of Eclipse (whose “street…
10/09/17 10:30PM
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It’s not unusual for a show like The Gifted – comic-book pedigree; effects-intensive; hyped – to come out of the…
10/02/17 10:05PM
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In Bryan Singer’s X2, his 2003 sequel to X-Men, one of the young students at Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted…
10/02/17 1:15PM
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The need for safety is what kicks things off in The Gifted, Matt Nix’s Marvel superhero drama for Fox. When bullied…