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Tuesday 31 May 2016

Powers: Season 2 Premiere Review

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Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

PlayStation's Powers is back for its second season, featuring the "Who Killed Retro Girl?" storyline that kicked off the Brian Michael Bendis/Michael Oeming comic series over fifteen years ago. Season 1 may have had a handful of flaws, but I did like the idea of not starting things off with Retro Girl dead. Getting to know her (as played excellently by Michelle Forbes) was a good thing as we now enter a world that's mourning her shocking, unceremonious death.

Better too, this time around, is the chemistry between Sharlto Copley's Walker and Susan Hayward's Pilgrim. Perhaps the fact that they're not allowed to work together on the Retro case, because Walker's too close (and eventually a suspect himself), made for a better opening dynamic. Because they both miss each other. And know they work better together than anyone else they'd get paired with. And all of this while the Powers Division itself is under the gun for the "Wolfe Debacle," which was another nice touch since there were so many sloppy parts to the Wolfe arc last year that I'm glad someone, whatever the reason, is being held accountable for it within the show.

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