Syfy has made the series premiere of Deadly Class available online ahead of its official broadcast debut, scheduled for Wednesday, January 16 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. This is an advanced review of the first episode.
There’s a wellspring of violent, nihilistic stories to match the current political climate. The Deadly Class comic — the Rick Remender-Wesley Craig monthly from Image — is one of them, and while its TV translation captures the feel of modern America, it has little to actually say about it.
Created by a who’s who of writers and producers (including Remender himself, along with Avengers: Infinity War’s Joe & Anthony Russo), the first chapter in Syfy’s series has arrived nearly a month ahead of schedule. Starring Benjamin Wadsworth as boys’ home runaway Marcus Lopez and Benedict Wong as a school-for-assassins ringleader — the suave, Rhadamanthine Master Lin — Deadly Class drops us right in the middle of Reagan’s America in 1987.
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There’s a wellspring of violent, nihilistic stories to match the current political climate. The Deadly Class comic — the Rick Remender-Wesley Craig monthly from Image — is one of them, and while its TV translation captures the feel of modern America, it has little to actually say about it.
Created by a who’s who of writers and producers (including Remender himself, along with Avengers: Infinity War’s Joe & Anthony Russo), the first chapter in Syfy’s series has arrived nearly a month ahead of schedule. Starring Benjamin Wadsworth as boys’ home runaway Marcus Lopez and Benedict Wong as a school-for-assassins ringleader — the suave, Rhadamanthine Master Lin — Deadly Class drops us right in the middle of Reagan’s America in 1987.
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