Powers

[kitik]

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/05/06/powers-renewed-for-second-season-by-playstation-network/400368/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29

Renewed for a second season.

 

[Christopher]

Any word on whether/when the rest of the first season will become available for those who don't get PlayStation Network or buy the episodes individually? E.g. on Netflix or Hulu?

 

[martok2112]

I didn't have a problem with the production values. I wonder if the issue is that people are expecting a superhero show, when it's actually a cop show set in a superhero universe (as they stress in the interviews I've read). By the standards of a cop show, the production looks okay to me.

That's my view on it as well, Christopher. I'm more in it for the story than the visual effects. Ooh and Olyssya Rulin is a big bonus .... phwoarrr!!!

Being that it's a PlayStation original, I wasn't holding out for great VFX.... and I was amazed at the adult themed nature of the story.

 

[Relayer1]

My son's on the PSN+ in the U.K. - any idea when we get this ?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Offer your son candy?

Unless he has physically told you that he doesn't know how to stream Powers, it's quite likely that if doesn't know, that he can figure it out in less than three minutes.

Maybe he's got the whole thing saved to the play stations hard drive already but he's waiting for your birthday, or Fathers day, or for when he really gets in trouble and needs to butter you up.

Just put 5 pounds on the coffee table in the lounge and tell him to hop to it.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

They've not announced anything about when the UK release is other than "later". I was hoping the announcement of season 2 would include a date but nope.

 

[SPCTRE]

My son's on the PSN+

Don't take this the wrong way (please!), but you sounded like my grandpa just now.

"My grandson, he is on the Facebooks!"

 

[kitik]

So, I watched all of season 1 over the past 4 or 5 days. Not a bad show, I'll definitely be interested in season 2. But I take issue with the notion that it's a cop show set in a powers universe. It's a powers show that just happens to star some cops. There was very little policework going on (at least in the second half of the season).

Spoiler tags since most folks haven't watched this yet:

Spoiler: huge spoiler for the end of the show

How in the world they couldn't dig up any suspects for the murder of the green jumping girl is beyond me, and it's pretty much the prime evidence that in no way, shape, or form is this a cop show. They just kind of glossed completely over that case/incident. (Calling it a case may be incorrect, since they never really investigated it.)

And if that lack of policework caused/allowed the murder at the end of the show to happen, then that really pisses me off. (Though we'll have to see in a year or so if that's the case.)

On the plus side, I really liked Johnny Royale and Simons. And the ending to episode 8 was pretty awesome.

Spoiler: episode 9

Though the fake-outs in episode 9 got a bit out of hand.

Spoiler: Johnny and Christian

Could never really get a handle on the relationship between Johnny and Christian. Seemed like half the time they were going to kill each other, and half the time they were going to hug, and on a few occasions it seems like they just awkwardly jumped from one attitude to the other.

All in all a decent show with a satisfying conclusion,

Spoiler: ending

though it's extremely easy to imagine what the How It Should Have Ended folks would have to say about this.