Two ordinary parents find out their children are mutants and lose everything in an afternoon, and end up hiding in the underground network they had never thought about before.
The premise is the best argument for a television series in this part of the catalogue: it starts with the family that the X-Men films would have had in the background. The father is a prosecutor who put mutants away. The mother had no opinion. Then their son manifests in a school corridor and the state comes for all four of them.
Thirteen episodes about being a refugee in your own country, which is the franchise’s oldest idea handled at the size where it actually bites.
Show detailsConnected, in a world where they lost
Unlike its sibling series, this one states its relationship plainly and both its own article and each season’s say it in the same words: connected to the X-Men film series, set in an alternate timeline where the X-Men have disappeared.
That absence is the premise. There is no team to call. The underground exists because the people who used to handle this are gone, and nobody will say where.
How it connects
This one sets these up.
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Released: October 2, 2017