EPISODE
SEASON
Powers - Season 1
Set in a world where humans and superheroes called 'Powers' co-exist, a former Power, Christian Walker, who had his own powers taken from him, investigates crimes involving superhumans along with his partner.
1963
9 June 1989, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
17 October 1991, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
30 November 1977, Decatur, Illinois, USA
7 December 1990, Canton, Ohio, USA
15 June 1958, San Diego, California, USA
1 April 1966, USA
8 May 1970, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, USA
22 June 1970, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
March 10, 2015
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.
March 10, 2015
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.
March 10, 2015
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.
March 10, 2015
It's a television show, not a first-person shooter. And it's a reasonably entertaining one in its CW-style, low-rent, formulaic way.
March 10, 2015
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.
June 10, 2016
The world of Powers might just be engrossing enough to sustain the flaws, especially if superheroes are your game.
March 09, 2015
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.
March 09, 2015
It succeeds in making the kind of programming Netflix and Amazon thought they were too good for (hint, they aren't).
April 26, 2017
With characters that feel dull and dialogue that feels clumsy. You'd need to be a mega superhero fan to stick with it.
March 12, 2015
With this end-product, it's finally clear why Powers has had such a tortured path to the small screen.
