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An unsympathetic usurper challenges a group of unsympathetic, super-powered aristocrats who maintain a caste system in a habitat inside the moon (which puzzlingly has earth-normal gravity).
Most people (who are not transformed by coming of age ceremony in which they are exposed to a mutagenic substance) are condemned to work 'the mines'.
The Royal Family flee to Earth. While the new regime prepare to invade Earth (an d the humans begin to detect the Lunar colony. No good guys here. No anti-heroes that you can get behind either.
The plot plods along. and the superheroes are neither especially super nor interesting. Meh.
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"The Mentalist" was a good show, which rather lost its way and never properly fleshed out its 'big bad', "Red John". The Mentalist was motivated to track down the monster who murdered his family.
In "Deception" an illusionist and stage magician is motivated to work for the FBI in order to find the person who framed his brother and put him into in jail for a crime he didn't commit. He also brings a magic team with him, to provide a greater variety of characters for viewers to to invest in.
Oh... and our illusionist hero works has a woman for his boss, just like the Mentalistt.
The ensemble cast are engaging and, while the set-up was hard to swallow, we can suspend disbelief for a little entertainment. Let's hope that they bear in mind the mistakes made by the show that they are effectively rebooting and think the plot arc through - if they get the chance....
Will it enjoy a long run, or is it too derivative? Also, there are an awful lot of shows out there where a 'consultant' shows the FBI how it's done. I suspect that the crew have their fingers crossed on this one. If the actors can't make it fly, it won't last.
Still... well worth a watch.
A very, very, frustrating show.
It's beautifully photographed, well acted and wonderfully surreal at times. However, when you have worked through all of the obscurity, there just isn't any engaging story at the heart of it.
Yes - I'm still watching it because it's and hoping that the plot starts to make some kind of interesting sense. It's other qualities make it interesting - but let's have some narrative for series two, please?