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    Introducing ... The Inept, Inert 'Inhumans'

    Look, it's not good. The series about Marvel's moon-dwelling not-mutants gets off to a two-hour start Friday that'll leave you scowling more than Black Bolt (Anson Mount). Which is saying something.
    by Glen Weldon Sep 29, 2017 4 minutes
    "Take me to my agent, boy!": Crystal (played by Isabelle Cornish) and Lockjaw the teleporting bulldog (played by A Bunch of Pixels) in <em>Marvel's Inhumans</em>.

    Hoo boy.

    What is it?

    Marvel's Inhumans, premiering tonight at 8:00 ET on ABC.

    What's it about?

    ... Uh.

    ... Hello? Something wrong?

    No. Oh you mean, wrong with this show? Then yes. Hoo boy. Lots of stuff. Yep.

    [Sigh.] What. Is It. About?

    In Marvel comics, Inhumans are a race of beings distinct from humans because their genetic makeup gives them special mutati- um. Special abilities. For this reason, they're hated and feared by humanity.

    So ... mutants, then.

    No.

    You almost said it yourself! Mutants. Like the X-Men.

    No! Mutants are distinct from humans because their genetic makeup gives them special abilities that make them hated and feared by humanity.

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