28. The Gifted (Fox: 2017-2019)
The Gifted mostly muddled its way through two undistinguished seasons on Fox. The series earns its ranking behind the much maligned Marvel’s Iron Fist, which was at least terrible enough to be interesting. Set in an alternate timeline, The Gifted is an X-Men series where the supposed hook is that the X-Men have vanished. It’s an inherently disappointing setup. The Gifted debuted in 2017, when the Marvel Cinematic Universe was flourishing, but it was a pale shadow of The CW’s more engaging superhero shows. Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker starred as parents Reed and Caitlin Strucker, who go on the run with their mutant kids, played by Percy Hynes White and Natalie Alyn Lind. Emma Dumont is fun as Lorna Dane (X-Men member Polaris in the comics), but if she’d been on The Flash, she’d have had a cool costume. [Stephen Robinson]
