The cast doesn’t shy away from the buzz about how “woke” the series is in terms of taking on the big issues. “I think that there will be people watching who will maybe be on his side and sort of see that story happen and have to make a decision within it of ‘Well what would I choose in that situation?’” “He has this big decision to make and he obviously chooses his family, but it means moving away from everything that he’s ever believed in,” Moyer told CNN. His character, he said, is “definitely on the side of law and order” and believes he is doing the right thing in prosecuting the mutants until it touches his family. The British actor who found fame on “True Blood” recognizes how current “The Gifted” will feel to viewers given all of the conversations surrounding race and immigration in the United States. That is until he’s forced to have a very personal change of heart.
Stephen Moyer plays Reed Stucker, the patriarch of the family, who as a prosecutor has been actively involved in going after the mutants. “I loved that idea it not only made them different, but it was a good metaphor for what was happening with the civil rights movement in the country at that time.” “Then it occurred to me that instead of them just being heroes that everybody admired, what if I made other people fear and suspect and actually hate them because they were different,” Lee said. “I couldn’t have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or zapped with gamma rays, and it occurred to me that if I just said that they were mutants, it would make it easy,” Lee said. The “X-Men” were birthed by a quest for social justice.Ĭreator Stan Lee told The Guardian in a 2000 interview that he was looking for a fresh idea after the success of the “Fantastic Four” comics in the 1960s. If that sounds like a timely storyline, there’s a reason for that. The series is part of the “X-Men” franchise and centers on a family whose lives are torn apart in the midst of the government’s persecution of mutants with extraordinary powers. “The Gifted,” which premieres October 2, is the latest entry in the Marvel family of entertainment. The city speaks for a lot of people and it’s great that a show that’s trying to speak to those people, too, to some degree, can be shot in a city like that.” “The Civil Rights Museum is haunting, it’s an incredible place to go to. On the whole, there were lots of funny things in this book, but readers may find the constant penis joke/awareness to be too much and may be troubled by the presence of queerbaiting, even though it’s condemned.Sean Teale, one of the stars of Fox’s new series “The Gifted,” finds it fitting that his show is filmed in Atlanta given the city’s rich civil rights heritage. I wish that his mom hadn’t been quite so over-the-top and such a largely negative portrayal of feminism. That felt really true to the experience of a big family with lots of funny people in it. I felt gross reading that section because he was both unkind in the way he described the other actors competing for the part he wanted, but he was also kind of superior and snobby, and none of that was ever called out as wrong.įor the most part, I really liked the dynamics of Sam’s family, especially in the scenes where they’re kind of all having snappy conversations that kind of run over each other. But it is strongly condemned in the story as wrong and deceitful.ĭuring Sam’s callback for the school play audition, he relates the performances of other students in a pretty derogatory way. It’s not great, and I would still say that there isn’t really a moment when he gets called out on the behavior by queer characters or anyone putting into perspective how harmful the behavior can be. He does eventually have to own up to his identity and is pretty miserable about how things end up. Ethan does eventually face some consequences for his actions, though we don’t get a firsthand response from any queer characters. In the story, Sam continually tells Ethan that what he’s doing is wrong and is going to catch up with him. Which is pretty clearly queerbaiting, and totally wrong. It becomes increasingly clear that Ethan is not bisexual, but he continues to use the label so he can continue with the band. Basically, what happens is this: Sam’s brother, Ethan, joins a queer band (every band has to have a “thing,” he tells Sam), so he tells everyone he’s bisexual in order to be in the band. If you’ve read many other reviews of this book, you’ve probably come across some discussion of the queerbaiting content, so I want to talk about that first. It was just a lot, sort of the same joke over and over.
There are a lot of references to penises, and I get that it’s a thing that does occupy the mind. I really, really struggled with this book.
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