Rapman’s sprawling sci-fi drama is strikingly performed, bracingly plotted and its characters are up there with prestige TV’s finest. It’s ingenious
hen it comes to superpowers, there are two that are considered the most desirable: flight and invisibility. As the US writer John Hodgman once pointed out, people who would choose flight have nothing to hide and are selfless, competent and unashamed. People who’d choose invisibility are deceitful, fearful, perverts.
The recently betrothed Michael is the closest thing the show has to a traditional hero – a hard-working man determined to build a comfortable life and own a car and a flat where he can watch Love Island on the sofa with his childhood sweetheart, Dionne . He’s horrified to learn of his newfound abilities, and through him the series confronts the existential crisis that comes when unwanted superpowers are thrust upon you.
Thankfully, the vast majority of the show is dedicated to the plight of our central misfits . But even if the series has many touchpoints in terms of prior series and characters with supernatural abilities, it still feels wholly distinct, with the characters’ lives realised in a way that rivals the best of contemporary prestige television. It doesn’t quite reach the heady heights ofin terms of a sprawling portrait of Black Britishness, but neither did Top Boy in its debut season.
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