Eventually the Struckers do find relevance again with a particularly intriguing plot line about their family history, but it’s easy to see the show makers are a bit more interested in the mutant underground members. As the season progresses, the Struckers actually fade into the background a bit, with the leaders of the mutant underground doing all of the cool, exciting stuff. Polaris, Eclipse, Thunderbird, Blink and the rest are dealing with their own life-and-death problems before they meet the Struckers, but they quickly realize they need each other and are forced to cooperate. The Gifted does succeed in its mission, to a degree, largely thanks to a few standout performances and some satisfying season-long plotlines, but you have to be willing to forgive some of the less-than-stellar elements along the way.Įven though the story starts with the Struckers at the forefront, the members of the mutant underground are also main players in the story. The first few episodes make a meal out of this predicament, adding in dramatic twists and forcing the characters to make impossible choices to protect their loved ones, but what follows after is a hit-or-miss affair dogged by the show’s low-end production value and repetitive episode structure. It turns out the Strucker children are both mutants, so to protect them, the parents make a deal with the mutant underground in order to escape the mutant-hunting Sentinel Services program. The solution was for it to exist in a post-X-Men world and focus on the seemingly ordinary Strucker family. without actually using any popular X-Men characters. The Gifted’s first season was faced with a difficult task: make a compelling show set in the world of the X-Men.
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