Warning: Full spoilers for Powers' first season follow...
Sony's adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's Powers -- first developed for FX (with a pilot even shot starring Jason Patric and Lucy Punch) -- was to be PlayStation Network's first original series. Ditching the comic's noir aspects and reshuffling many of the characters and arcs to create sort of a "blue skies" remix of the original source, Powers was "bare bones" on the adaptation front. It left a lot of the original quirk and charm behind in exchange for a much less gratifying saga of super-powered humans living among normals.
Distractingly wonky American accents (from lead Sharlto Copley and co-star Noah Taylor) and budget CGI kept viewers at arm's length while the tumultuous tale of ex-Power Christian Walker unfolded. Instead of feeling sympathy for Detective Walker, whose powers were inexplicably consumed by his old mentor, we cringed as he constantly fell into a sniveling, confessional heap in front of his new, hot-headed partner, Deena Pilgrim (Susan Heyward).
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Sony's adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's Powers -- first developed for FX (with a pilot even shot starring Jason Patric and Lucy Punch) -- was to be PlayStation Network's first original series. Ditching the comic's noir aspects and reshuffling many of the characters and arcs to create sort of a "blue skies" remix of the original source, Powers was "bare bones" on the adaptation front. It left a lot of the original quirk and charm behind in exchange for a much less gratifying saga of super-powered humans living among normals.
Distractingly wonky American accents (from lead Sharlto Copley and co-star Noah Taylor) and budget CGI kept viewers at arm's length while the tumultuous tale of ex-Power Christian Walker unfolded. Instead of feeling sympathy for Detective Walker, whose powers were inexplicably consumed by his old mentor, we cringed as he constantly fell into a sniveling, confessional heap in front of his new, hot-headed partner, Deena Pilgrim (Susan Heyward).
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