In an era brimming with superhero movies and television shows, studios seem to be at war with one another competing for the next big hit. It is safe to say that Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy seems to present all the promise in the world, then falls short of a cohesive storyline that actually makes sense in […]
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Jupiter’s Legacy, as based on the Image Comics series from Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. The show follows the Sampson family, made up of the world’s very first superheroes – The Utopian (Josh Duhamel) and Lady Liberty (Leslie Bibb) – and their children, rebellious Chloe (Elena Kampouris) and keen-to-impress Brandon (Andrew Horton). While the kids struggle to live in their parents’ shadow in the present, flashbacks detail their folks’ origin story in the late 1920s.
As you’d expect, this new comic book property is generating a lot of buzz online, but it seems that
Jupiter’s Legacy has Netflix users divided. On the one hand, many are loving it and have binge-watched all eight episodes with glee. On the other, some are struggling to make it through the season and are finding that it’s just not for them. And below, you can find a sample of the reactions.
You d be forgiven for wondering how Netflix s
Jupiter s Legacy compares to other recent entries in the glut of Wait, what if superheroes . but, you know,
realistic? content currently swamping streaming services. (To be fair, this realistic superheroes business is something we comics readers have been slogging through for decades; the rest of the culture s just catching up. Welcome, pull up a chair; here s a rag to wipe those supervillain entrails off the seatback before you sit down.)
So here s a cheat sheet. Netflix s
Jupiter s Legacy is .
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier