- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 27, 2024
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Supacell is scrappy and scruffy (my own Spidey senses deduce there wasn’t a huge budget for special effects), but maybe that’s a good thing. Instead of drowning in CGI, there’s potential here for an imaginative story with multifaceted characters.
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Showrunner and lead director Rapman’s sprawling sci-fi is an absolute riot, strikingly performed and bracingly plotted to a sensational soundtrack with five nuanced characters all battling complex problems.
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The series has an array of storylines and characters, but Michael and Dionne’s relationship stands at the heart of “Supacell.” The depth, intricacies and beauty of Black love are so rarely showcased on screen that seeing a young couple who has built a life together from their teen years into adulthood is beautiful to behold.
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It has cutting social commentary that simmers throughout, it shines a spotlight on real-life issues while folding it into their universe, and it balances a slow-burn approach with the action-packed to bring you characters, big and small, you desperately root for.
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This compact first season does enough to merit a second. But if Supacell has a superpower, it is that it knows how to borrow well.
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In a televisual sea of white noise, this is propulsive, compulsive viewing. You thought superheroes had had their day? Rapman to the rescue.
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With a killer soundtrack and an unpredictable storyline, Rapman’s series is one of the best streaming surprises of the summer.
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While there’s a lot about Supacell that we’ve seen before, there’s also enough that’s new to keep us watching, especially given the performances of its main cast.
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I’m telling you to watch the show for its potential, which I think is evident and ample, but if you wait for the show to fulfill its potential before tuning in, a second season will never materialize.
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This was, at least, an involving British drama that had things to say. I just wish it hadn’t done so in borrowed clothes.
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Comparison is the thief of joy and Supacell does a massive disservice to the enthralling character drama of its heroes by aping popular DC and Marvel storylines.
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That Supacell improves as it goes along is perhaps the thing that most distinguishes it from Heroes, which started off strong and soon fizzled. But it doesn’t do enough to distinguish itself from our current overpopulated superhero TV landscape.
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