HuluThe Gifted (2017)
Bias Rating
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Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.3
Overview
A suburban couple's 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.
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Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Neutral
Race Swap: Yes
Overview
A suburban couple's 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.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by depicting systemic discrimination against a marginalized group (mutants) and their fight for civil rights against an oppressive government, making it a clear critique of societal prejudice and state power.
The series features a visibly diverse cast, though it does not explicitly recast traditionally white roles with minority actors. Its narrative, however, strongly critiques traditional power structures and portrays them negatively as antagonists, using the mutant allegory to explore themes of prejudice and marginalization.
Secondary
The Gifted includes an openly gay mutant character, Shatter, whose identity is acknowledged but remains incidental to the main narrative. His sexuality is presented factually without significant exploration, avoiding both strong positive affirmation and negative portrayal, thus resulting in a neutral net impact.
The show features characters like Blink and Shatter, who were depicted as white in their original Marvel Comics source material. In "The Gifted," these characters are portrayed by actors of East Asian and Black descent, respectively, constituting race swaps.
The show features several female characters with mutant abilities who engage in combat. However, their victories against male opponents are consistently achieved through the use of their specific superpowers (e.g., magnetism, force fields, teleportation, sonic screams) rather than through direct physical combat, martial arts, or melee weapon skills.
The show features several established Marvel Comics characters, such as Polaris, Thunderbird, and Blink. All these characters maintain their canonical gender from the source material. Original characters created for the series do not qualify as gender swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
7.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
7.2
7.6
Critic Ratings
7.9
6.3
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