'The Gifted' Episode 3 Review: Exodus!

🌟The Gifted🌟Episode 3 Review🌟7.9/10🌟

This is the first episode in which i have started to get a little frustrated with The Gifted, there are still way too many characters for a show that’s so new. Between the mutant underground, Sentinel Services, and the Strucker family, the list goes on and on. That’s not even counting single character stories like Polaris, and the mysterious doctor who likes mutant siblings.

There’s so much going on that the story is starting to move at an extremely sluggish pace. For whatever reason The Gifted feels the need to check in with every character, every episode thus far. For example, we got a scene with Polaris in which absolutely nothing happened. She just tried to use her powers and nearly had a seizure trying to do so. The scene was completely pointless and led to zilch plot movement. We could have been spending time developing the other stories in the episode.

We followed two storys in this episode; we saw Reed Strucker trying to be complaint and work with sentinel services in order to save his family, but in doing so putting other Mutants in harms way. He tries his best to follow the instructions given, but in the end he has a change of heart, leaving him in the sh**. Textbook plot development we could all see coming.

Then there was the better half of the episode which followed his wife trying to get help from her brother. Obviously the kids didn't let her go alone and you can only imagine what might happen taking them for a journey to there uncles, after all everyone loves mutants. All in all we're not really going forward, we're starting to go a little sideways, being that all we seem to keep learning is how hard it is for mutants in this time and how the Strucker parents keep having a change of heart for mutants. I hope it picks up again soon and preferably kills some people off.