Mark Millar explains why the first season serves as an eight-episode pilot of sorts
Tim Baysinger | May 7, 2021 @ 9:00 AM
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“Jupiter’s Legacy,” Netflix’s superhero epic from Mark Millar, has
a lot of story to get through, given that it spans multiple generations of superpowered people over the course of 90 years. And the eight-episode Season 1, which debuted Friday, only scratches the surface of Millar’s sprawling comic book story.
That’s largely because half of each episode is dedicated to tracking the origin of Josh Duhamel’s Sheldon Sampson, aka The Utopian, and his soon-to-be-superpowered friends who make up The Union. The group’s backstory which begins with the Stock Market crash of 1929 and ends with their journey to a mysterious island where aliens grant them special abilities is only a very small part of the comic books, which mostly focus on The Union in the present day and their kids who struggle to live up to a changing world and their par
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