To Get Down with ‘The Gifted’ or Naa?

Off the rip, Gifted was a thousand times better than Inhumans. Yes, I know this is a really weak assessment test, but if you watched the entire 2-hour premiere, you would know they have officially cemented themselves at the shitty end of the Marvel spectrum. 8% On Rotten Tomatoes?! 2 years from now when you go see Captain Marvel on Thursday at midnight, your homie will roll up on you Friday and be like, “Yoooo how dope was it on a scale of Inhumans to Avengers?!” Luckily, The Gifted falls somewhere in the middle of that scale. I don’t think it’ll be as good as Legion, and it’s tough to say where it’ll land, but the first episode was a great starting point for an X-Men show. I’ll hit you with the TL;DR synopsis. The Underground Mutant Resistance is holding it down out in them streets saving wanted mutants on the run. They’re recruiting the fugitives to join their team/resistance in the absence of the X-Men/Brotherhood. Vampire Bill Compton Reed Strucker works for an organization that locks up criminal mutants and underground affiliates. Safe to say you don’t trust this mutant hatin’ fuck boy…at least that’s how you feel at first. Andy, the son of vamp Mr. Strucker has been bullied something stupid and reaches his breaking point at a school dance. His “fan club” yokes him up in the locker room then scolds him with hot water from the showers. The kid loses it and his dormant (telekinetic?) mutant powers flare and awaken as he uncontrollably rips the locker room apart, tosses t…