X-Men: 'The Gifted' Review Round-Up

USA Today

"The Gifted is the kind of show you'd want to take with you on the run.

The new Fox series (Monday, 9 ET/PT, *** ½ out of four) is set in the X-Men universe and follows a family with two mutant teens, fleeing from the government forces that want to lock them away. It's a gripping and savvy series that carves out its own space in the cluttered comic-book TV landscape." - USA Today

Variety

"20th Century Fox makes use of its long-held rights to X-Men — and the very term "mutant" — with the tepid new drama "The Gifted," a show about a family with two mutant children trying to escape the clutches of evil government forces. It's nice to see the X-Men back on screen in some capacity — and Bryan Singer, the director behind the sturdy, successful films "X-Men" and "X2," directs the pilot for "The Gifted" — but the new drama generally fails to impress." - Variety

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"The pilot does what a good pilot should, plant seeds that can grow. The Gifted can easily become another Lucifer or Gotham for Fox. It can become a show with a rabid fanbase that will eat up whatever crazy twist creator-showrunner Matt Nix wants to throw their way.

Based on the premiere, there's every reason to believe The Gifted can become something big. A show that can spawn a dozen shows. Fox's Arrow, in many respects. If this works, we could be looking at many more mutant-themed programs to come from the house Homer Simpson built.

Forbes

"The pilot does what a good pilot should, plant seeds that can grow. The Gifted can easily become another Lucifer or Gotham for Fox. It can become a show with a rabid fanbase that will eat up whatever crazy twist creator-showrunner Matt Nix wants to throw their way.

Based on the premiere, there's every reason to believe The Gifted can become something big. A show that can spawn a dozen shows. Fox's Arrow, in many respects. If this works, we could be looking at many more mutant-themed programs to come from the house Homer Simpson built." - Forbes

New York Times

""The Gifted" has a promising pedigree — it was created by Matt Nix ("Burn Notice"), who wrote the pilot. The Marvel veteran Bryan Singer was brought in to direct the pilot, presumably because of his extensive experience with the "X-Men" movies.

The show features an original story and new characters not taken from comic books, but it's loosely situated in the "X-Men" continuum, with references to those more famous mutants having gone missing. Free of existing origin stories, the premise is simple: a young brother and sister manifest their powers, and their non-mutant parents take them on the run with the help of photogenic members of a mutant underground." - New York Times

Entertainment Weekly

"Although The Gifted lacks the tongue-in-cheek humor of Netflix's Jessica Jones or The Defenders, it stays afloat with quality special effects and surprisingly excellent performances across the large ensemble cast. It's straightforward comic book fare with familiar beats, but with an earnestness and well-paced storyline that elevates it above the other gritty, supernatural fall TV choices. If you're told to decide between Marvel's Inhumans and The Gifted, choose The Gifted every time and then laugh whomever presented you with that choice out of your life forever." - Entertainment Weekly

IGN

"The Gifted exists in the world of the X-Men, but don't expect to see Wolverine or Jean Grey pop up. The X-Men have disappeared, along with the villainous Brotherhood, leaving the show to focus on an Underground Railroad-esque mutant resistance, the mutant-hunting agents of Sentinel Services, and a family caught in between. The pilot doesn't try to do anything markedly new with the mutant metaphor, but it hits every beat of that formula so well that it's a great time regardless." - IGN