One of the best franchises in comic book history to tackle social inequalities through the use of marginalized (read: mutant) communities is undoubtedly Marvel Comics’ long-running X-Men title. And perhaps surprisingly to those of you who haven’t watched the first season, Fox’s X-Men series The Gifted actually translates decades’ worth of strife, angst, and uprisings against authority really, really well. So it’s with a great deal of excitement … Continue reading ‘The Gifted’ Season 2: First Trailer Reintroduces The X-Men TV Show!! Check It Out!!

Fox has released a new trailer for the upcoming X-Men TV series The Gifted. The show hails from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix and revolves around a family of mutants struggling to survive in a world where no one’s sure if the X-Men or Brotherhood of Mutants still exist. It very much looks to be a ground-level type of X-Men story, focused more on the … Continue reading ‘The Gifted’: New Trailer for Fox X-Men Series Goes Full ‘Carrie’!! Check It Out!!

Fox is all about the mutants these days. Whether on the film side, where the X-Men universe has evolved and expanded to include films like Deadpool, Logan and New Mutants alongside the long-running central franchise, but on TV as well, where Noah Hawley‘s FX series Legion spun the universe in a completely new direction. Next up is The Gifted, the upcoming FOX series from Burn … Continue reading ‘The Gifted’ SDCC Trailer Teases a New X-Men Universe!! Check It Out!!

The first look at Fox’s new Marvel mutant series The Gifted dropped a couple of weeks back, introducing a new generation of super-powered youngsters hunted by a shadowy government organization. Though it clearly has ties to Marvel’s X-Men universe, thanks to name drops of the title team, other organizations, and characters from the Marvel series, the first trailer only offered the briefest of glimpses at the … Continue reading ‘The Gifted’: New Trailer Is Big on Powers!! Check It Out!!!

One thing that Logan showed was that a very focused X-Men story is a very good X-Men story. In this latest trilogy of movies, what started out as a smaller story of two powerful mutant men who were like brothers (who had very different ideologies) spiraled out of control very quickly. It’s not hard to do when time travel and a bevy of mutants are introduced, … Continue reading ‘The Gifted’: First Trailer Teases Bryan Singer’s X-Men TV Series!!! Check It Out!!