’s youthful exuberance. Twenty-five-year-old Jen is powerless – literally – in a world in which everyone acquires a superheroic skill when they turn 18. Sure, some are more impressive than others – you might get the gift of flight, invisibility or superspeed, but then again you might get the ability to turn “absolutely anything” into a PDF, or a bum that is also a 3D printer – but everyone has one ability. Except for our hero.
Jen does have one good, if drippy, friend – her flatmate Carrie . Though this does mean that her other flatmate is Carrie’s useless, sponging boyfriend Kash – a drain on both their resources, except for the odd occasion when his power to turn back time comes in handy. Carrie herself can channel the dead.
Extraordinary is a fun, effortless watch – and though there are some hackneyed scenes, like a regrettable call to the non-boyfriend while on pre-dentist Valium, there are some good set pieces. One of the highlights of the first episode is Jen’s negotiations with another hookup, this time one with the power to make anyone come with a single touch and who discovered this when shaking his father’s hand on his 18th birthday.
Added to the mix are Siobhán McSweeney as Jen’s chaotic mother , her smug half-sister , and the arrival of Jizzlord , a homeless cat who turns out to be only one of these things. More supporting performers are added after Kash is mugged and decides to put together a team of vigilantes . Most of Jen’s adventures and misadventures cohere round the need to get together the thousands of pounds necessary for the Discovery Clinic, which promises to unearth the powers of late-starters.
Extraordinary is fun but does begin to feel, once the initial playfulness of the premise has worn off, underbaked. It seems happy to deliver a reasonable rate of gags and to let the whole thing stand as a metaphor for the uncertainty of your 20s and the common experience of feeling like everyone around you is pulling ahead and has been given the key to some secret cache of life skills and/or maturity that you have not been handed, but without really digging in and finding traction.
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