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Relax, Nerds: 'The Gifted' Knows What It's Doing

A great premise, fun performances, a cool sensibility and excellent special effects make FOX's new mutants-on-the-lam series a solid bet. (Are you listening, Marvel's Inhumans?)
"I'm tellin' you, that fish was yay big!": Teen Mutant Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind) prepares to bend air like Beckham in <em>The Gifted.</em>

After Friday night's two-hour premiere of Marvel's Inhumans on ABC, you can forgive us Marvel nerds for feeling a bit flinchy. That show's a great big slab of cheese — some of the runniest and stinkiest around — so if some of us approach the premiere of FOX's mutant-themed series The Gifted by adopting a kind of collective defensive crouch, understand that it's warranted.

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