Deadly Class Recap: This Series Premiere Is As Bloody As Expected

Season: 1 / Episode: 1, Reagan Youth / SyFy Straight outta SyFy comes a comic book adaptation that had me hooked since the trailer dropped last summer. Deadly Class is set in 1987, one of the greatest years this planet has ever seen and not just because it birthed ya boy right here! This was prime 80’s counterculture.

The hair was still big, the streets were still filthy, and the spurned inhabitants of this nation were still figuring out who we were and if Reagan was a genius or piece of garbage. It’s the perfect backdrop to follow a young homeless teen as he does his best to get acclimated to a high school for murderers, sociopaths, and assassins! How Deadly We Talkin? We pop off with a sneak peek at the world of Deadly Class. A flash forward shows our protagonist, Marcus, sitting in class wondering if he’s really surrounded by a room full of teenage killas-to-be. Ya boy Benedict Wong comes through setting the brutal tone as Master Lin, the ruthless headmaster of King’s Dominion. How ruthless you ask? Ruthless enough to cock back like Barry Bonds in peak MLB steroid era and destroy one of his students’ whole face regions with a diamond studded cane for nary a damn reason. Yeah, this is life now Marcus, you wit the shits or na??

With the stakes firmly established, the episode kicks off with Marcus’ backstory. Dude been an orphan for most of his life and would’ve been his whole childhood if a fire hadn’t ripped through the orphanage home and claimed dozens of young lives tha…