An Extra Ordinary Woman Needs Superpowers in Extraordinary

In America, your 18th birthday is marked (normally) by receiving the appropriate to vote. In Hulu’s upcoming TV collection Extraordinary, folks obtain a miscellaneous superpower—apart from Jen (Máiréad Tyers), who’s managed to make it to 25 with out discovering what capability she obtained, if any. But this Britcom turns Jen’s woes right into a slightly poignant—though very humorous!—story of a lady trying to find her id.

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If this feels paying homage to the favored anime collection My Hero Academia, which begins with a younger boy named Izuku Midoriya who additionally doesn’t have superpowers in a world the place practically everybody else has them, nicely… yeah. But the similarities with Extraordinary clearly cease there. Here’s the official synopsis: “Meet Jen. She lives in a world where everyone has a superpower. Everyone except her. Which is just sodding great. Extraordinary is somewhere between a sitcom and an existential crisis: an eye-popping, shocking, hilarious, and bittersweet comedy about finding your way in the world, when all you’ll ever be is ‘ordinary’.”

Extraordinary premieres on Hulu on January 25.

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