Ben Daniels and Matt Lanter also open up about a few deleted scenes, the Walter-George rivalry, and more.
He was, ostensibly, also the one behind the latest threat: the release of a clone of the villain Blackstar (Tyler Mane) and that vision of a threat again Sheldon and his son Brandon/Paragon (Andrew Horton). A twist in the finale revealed itâs really Sheldonâs brother, Walter/Brainwave (Ben Daniels), whoâs the mastermind of the present-day madness. So the George that Walter and Grace/Lady Liberty (Leslie Bibb) fought in the mind of the (dead) Blackstar clone? Just a construct of Walterâs mind.
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.
Jupiter s Legacy Review: Netflix s Ambitious Superhero Series Can t Stay in the Air
It sits in the shadows of other better superhero shows Keith Phipps
The America of
Jupiter s Legacy looks much like the one we know except for one big difference: Since the 1930s, heroes in capes and tights have patrolled its streets and skies, righting wrongs, stopping crime, and keeping supervillains in check. Otherwise it looks quite familiar. Overheated politics divide the nation. Unemployment keeps rising as a gulf between the rich and the poor deepens. Protests fill the street. Residents struggle with depression. Rather than saving the world, the arrival of superheroes has just created another complication. The real problems, the ones at the heart of society, remain beyond their ability to fix.
The responsibility of heroism gets a fresh look in Netflix’s “Jupiter’s Legacy,” a show that will admittedly pale in comparison to more escapist and accomplished recent deconstructions of superhero culture like Amazon Prime’s “Invincible” and “The Boys,” but that has long stretches of complex drama and interesting performances that hold it together enough to make me curious to see a second season. So much of the eight episodes in the first season are dedicated to telling parallel origin stories that it can sometimes get weighed down with the burden of that structure, but there are interesting themes weaved through this adaptation of the comic series of the same name by Mark Millar ( Wanted, Kick-Ass ) and Frank Quitely. Originally developed by Steven S. DeKnight (the kingpin of the Starz “Spartacus” shows), the creator was replaced in the middle of the season by Sang Kyu Kim due to creative differences, and that tonal uncertainty and inconsistency can be felt
Jupiter s Legacy is a superhero take on the Millennials versus Boomers fight
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Jupiter s Legacy stand out in a crowded field of superhero series and movies is right there in the name: Legacy. Generations and the passing of world-saving responsibility from one era of heroes to another have been a major aspect of long-running superhero comic universes for decades. Mainstream superhero movies, though, haven t been able to fully explore this theme yet. The MCU, which did feature Hank Pym as the first Ant-Man and Tony Stark s mentorship of Spider-Man, is starting to go down this road in earnest with series like