Review: In 'Raising Dion,' a superhero second-grader powers a refreshingly life-size story
Sometimes it's not the best-made shows that make the best impression. A seamlessly produced work can just slide right off you, where one whose edges are rougher can stick.
"Raising Dion," a new sci-fi series from Netflix, concerns a superpowered second-grader and the people in his life. It's yet another story of mutants in a world in no particular need of another one - "Too Many Mutants" is the superhero musical I will one day get around to writing - but it's also a story of single motherhood, of elementary-school social Darwinism,
