Not unlike something like “Midnight Special,” FX’s new series “The Gifted,” centers on a family that discovers their children have mutant powers and go on the run. It’s yet another X-Men related series and another sign that like Warner Bros. and the CW, Marvel and Marvel Television, 20th Century Fox is eager to expand their X-Men universe into their related TV platforms like FX.
The show has launched Sentinel Services.com, a site meant to lure in families with mutants under the guise of altruism and help, claiming being a mutant isn’t illegal. But if you click on “get tested” for the X-gene, the site becomes hacked and mutant fugitive Clarice Fong/Blink (Jamie Chung), who will play a major role in the show, hacks into the page warning potential mutants to run for their lives and hide from the government.
“They seem so friendly, don’t they?” she says. “You [can’t trust] them. If the Sentinel Services discover you have the X-Gene, life as you know it is over. Stay off their radar while you still can.”
Here’s the official synopsis:
Family adventure series THE GIFTED, from 20th Century Fox Television in association with Marvel Television, tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. Written by Matt Nix (APB, “Burn Notice”), directed by Bryan Singer (the “X-Men” franchise”) and executive-produced by Nix, Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner (“X-Men: Apocalypse,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “The Wolverine”), Simon Kinberg (“X-Men: Apocalypse,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past”), Jeph Loeb (“Marvel’s Daredevil,” “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”) and Jim Chory (“Marvel’s Daredevil,” “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”).
The series stars Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Sean Teale, Jamie Chung, Coby Bell, Emma Dumont, Blair Redford, Natalie Alyn Lind and Percy Hynes White. “The Gifted” premieres on Monday, October 2 at 9/8c.
