The events of that story begin in a great world where humans and superheroes, called 'powers', coexist, the former force. It is the story of that boy named Christian Walker, whose special powers were taken from him. Now, Christian tries to investigate the crimes involving superhuman beings with his partner, and perhaps it will be strange and powerful.
A truly deconstructionist superhero story, in the form of a slowly unfolding procedural, with a side helping of zaniness? I would have liked to see that show. Powers isn't it.
It drives Copley's performance into a really mannered and angst-ridden direction, it makes Deena Pilgrim... into an afterthought, and it leads to every single emotional and thematic arc of the show being over-articulated.
The dialogue, for one thing, is likely to rub serious drama fans the wrong way with its mix of cheap one-liners, bad metaphors, and a stunning amount of epithets and four-letter words - anatomical, sexual, scatological, it's all there.
Powers doesn't get off to the the best start but the concept is strong and the world so detailed and cleverly built out that it's probably a series that bears some monitoring to see if it will improve.
The TV series combines a plethora of different Powers plots into one narrative, delivering scripts that have a lot of familiar elements for fans of the comic, but don't unfold the way readers would expect.
