Grab yourself a drink and pour one out for your mutant homies, because Fox has cancelled Marvel's THE GIFTED after two seasons. As per the show's official description, THE GIFTED focuses on a suburban couple (Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker) whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.
When THE GIFTED arrived in October of 2017, Marvel's mutant-centric mayhem earned a 1.0 rating in the key 18-49 demographic and 3.31 million total viewers for its first season. Unfortunately, viewership was cut down to a 0.59 rating, with a total of just 1.95 million tuning in for the sophomore season of the studio's effects-driven drama.
Joining Moyer and Acker for the show were Natalie Alyn Lind, Percy Hynes White, Sean Teale, Jamie Chung, Emma Dumont, Blair Redford and Coby Bell. The series was produced by 20th Century Fox Television – recently absorbed as part of the Disney/Fox merger – in association with Marvel Television.
Though it faired better than Marvel's dead-on-arrival attempt at INHUMANS, THE GIFTED will be going the way of the dodo, while shows like Marvel's AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as RUNAWAYS and CLOAK & DAGGER continue to hit their mark. To be honest, the comics-to-screen market has become quite competitive in recent years, and the numbers don't lie. Perhaps it's time for Marvel's mutants to take a sabaticle until they're reborn as a part of the MCU via the big screen or Disney+.
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