“Extraordinary”, a hilarious quest for superpowers

• The British series

  Extraordinary

  is available this Wednesday on Disney+.

• This hilarious comedy takes place in a parallel universe where everyone discovers a superpower on their 18th birthday.

• Everyone… Except Jen (Màriéad Tyrers), who, at 25, is still waiting to have hers…

A fun celebration of the anti-superhero!

After

, its first original British production, Disney + unveils this Wednesday

, a completely crazy comedy with a hell of a good dose of this form of humor so characteristic of productions from across the Channel mixing darkness and absurdity.

In many ways, the pitch of this series, unlike its title, is quite familiar.

follows a group of friends in their twenties, living in shared accommodation in East London, struggling with the beginnings of adulthood.

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Extraordinary

takes place in a parallel universe where everyone discovers a superpower on their 18th birthday.

Everyone… except Jen (Màriéad Tyrers, whom you may have seen in Kenneth Branagh's

), who, at 25, is still waiting for hers.

It's a good thing the comedy dreamed up by

screenwriter Emma Moran and the producers of

is a Disney+ original series, if not its similarities to

, another young woman's story who, unlike everyone she knows, is not gifted with powers, might have raised eyebrows.

A “Fleabag” antiheroine

Jen is stuck in a dull job at a costume rental shop and a dead-end relationship with Luke (Ned Portuous), an unreliable young man with the – arguably great, but quite annoying – gift of stealing.

Fortunately, the young woman can count on the support of her roommates, Carrie (the star of Poldark, Sofia Oxenham), her best friend, the boyfriend of the latter, Kash (Bilal Hasna) and Jizzlord (Luke Rollason), a shapeshifter trapped in the body of a cat.

Carrie can communicate with the dead, and uses her gift in a law firm to settle the estates of deceased celebrities.

Her boyfriend, Kash wants to create a justice league to protect the citizens of London.

Jen is a distant relative of

Excruciatingly self-aware, overly honest and endowed with a great sense of self-mockery, Jen has only developed a definite fondness for alcohol and an innate talent for putting herself in situations as catastrophic as they are funny. .

"Sometimes I wonder if I'm a little racist," she says during a job interview in which she is asked to list her faults and qualities.

A succession of hilarious gags and punchlines

Throughout the season, Jen searches for her superpower.

A man who can "transform anything into a PDF", another who has "an ass that prints in 3D", or even a "loving" woman... Some will see in

a metaphor on this crisis of the transition to age adult or a commentary on how people's talent is misused...

But what is quite extraordinary about

is above all his ability to never take himself seriously.

Each episode is a series of absurd gags, grand-guignolesque situations, ironic humor, sharp punchlines.

In short, an extraordinary cure for the January blues.

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