Not quite all the new TV shows premiered last week. ABC decided to wait until tonight to roll out their new show, No Ordinary Family.
Michael Chiklis and Julie Benz star as parents with a waning marriage who, along with their two children, are in an accident that gifts them all with superpowers. Think The Incredibles, by way of something like Spider-man's origin story.
Why would someone like me, who generally doesn't like comic book-like tales, have any interest in this show? Well, think of all the above, by way of Brothers & Sisters. In fact, it's co-created by a TV man with his hands in that very show, Greg Berlanti. The other co-creator is Jon Harmon Feldman, a force behind Tru Calling, which may not have started out great, but ultimately did find its way into something fairly cool.
Anyway, the gloss of this current series might be the superhero angle, but the backbone is a family drama. And the first episode did an excellent job of showing how the series could be both in good measure. I was pulled into the relationships between characters, and could imagine taking interest in not just their unusual problems, but their ordinary ones.
The show was humorously aware of the real world in which it exists, making references to other superheroes, and thwarting a few conventions (such as having them not keep their secret from their friends).
I was definitely entertained, and will be hanging in to see where it goes from here.
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