Instead, they created a new family of mutants, with only a passive connection to X-Men history, to compose the story around, which led to largely poor results.Ī big reason comic book adaptations have a fairly good track record is the characters and stories are workshopped by every writer who touches them. The series’ error was not fully utilizing the characters they had from the comics. The core trio of the Mutant Underground (Marcos Diaz/Eclipse, Clarice Wong/Blink, John Proudstar/Thunderbird) had great chemistry, and seeing the three young mutants try to lead and make life-and-death decisions usually kept me engaged as a viewer and recapper. The Gifted is a series that always had potential but mostly wasted it. For that reason, I thought now would be the best time to take a look at the two series and what they mean to the FOX franchise as a whole. The Gifted is the lowest-rated drama on FOX and certainly doesn’t have the lowest budget, so to see a Season 3 would be an even bigger shock now. It’s already confirmed that the next season of Legion will be its last. With Disney’s purchase of FOX finally official, it’s all but ensured both will end shortly. The Gifted is a traditional, largely uninspired translation of the X-Men to the small screen. Legion is an innovative, challenging, even psychedelic examination of not just superheroes but our comprehension of reality itself. In 19 years FOX only produced two series, Legion and The Gifted. ET/PT, Fox’s The Gifted stars Stephen Moyer as Reed Strucker, Amy Acker as Caitlin Strucker, Sean Teale as Eclipse/Marcos Diaz, Jamie Chung as Blink/Clarice Fong, Coby Bell as Jace Turner, Emma Dumont as Polaris/Lorna Dane, Blair Redford as Thunderbird/John Proudstar, Natalie Alyn Lind as Lauren Strucker, Percy Hynes White as Andy Strucker, Skyler Samuels as the Frost sisters and Grace Byers as Reeva Payge.The X-Men franchise was rather late to TV. RELATED: The Gifted: Reed Holds Mutantkind's Fate in His Hands in New ClipĪiring Tuesday at 9 p.m. With Hulu Senior Vice President Craig Erwich noting the premium streaming platform would be open to picking up cancelled Marvel properties, The Gifted may benefit as it does not have the same contractual restrictions as Netflix's Marvel original programming. But we do well on streaming so there may be, my hope is that there’s something to work out in that realm." "We have a solid fan base and it’s a little small for the broadcast networks. Some partnership, because I think what we’ve discovered is that fans of The Gifted are big fans of The Gifted," explained Nix in an interview with Slash Film. "If we come back, we’ll come back in some sort of creative way.
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