This story looks like one of those bedtime stories our parents used to tell us. Superhero children, with awesome powers, yet so normal, requiring love and affection, like any regular child.
Moral lessons and consequences that befall them when they do something wrong… Well, this isn’t exactly the premise of the show, but at first sight, it’s what it most reminded me of.
Be Special, Not Happy
You have this group of individuals, linked, connected as brothers, not by blood but by the craziness of their adoptive father instead.
He took the children under his care and turned his house into some sort of boarding school for special kids. Give it a couple of years, and you end up with a very dysfunctional family.
Good Characters
Despite the extensive use of fantasy, we can easily feel empathy for the characters. They’re all very interesting and very different from one another, which makes us pay attention to all of their stories, and they’re all pretty captivating.
Pogo (Adam Godley) is a very curious character whom you want to know more about, and I hope we’ll be able to in a hypothetical second season, yet my favorite is, without a doubt, Klaus (Robert Sheehan).
He’s a comedic, yet very dramatic and actually sad character; nonetheless, he's always super fun to watch. I laughed hard with his antics throughout the show.
Not Surprising
I found it to be a little too obvious for everyone that there might be some kind of special secret involving Vanya (Elliot Page - Tales of the City), from the very beginning, so unfortunately, that element of surprise doesn’t really connect.
Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to take anyone’s attention away from the general story or from finding out exactly what that ends up being.
Looking Forward
I’m really hoping for a second season and the outcome of the siblings’ significant steps.
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