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Extraordinary

Extraordinary

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  • United Kingdom
  • 2023
  • · 1 season
  • · 30m

Creator Emma Moran
Cast Mairéad Tyers, Sofia Oxenham, Bilal Hasna, Luke Rollason
Genre Action & Adventure, Comedy

In the world of Extraordinary, everybody gets a superpower when they turn 18. Everyone, except for Jen, that is. Her roommate is a lawyer who can speak with the dead, her boyfriend can control time, and her cat's actually an amnesiac shapeshifter. Jen is indeed, extra-ordinary.

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New York Magazine (Vulture) by Jen Chaney

Leaps into a new creative stratosphere. .... Season two is flat-out great.

95

Paste Magazine by Lacy Baugher

Extraordinary’s trademark brash humor remains as offbeat, raunchy, and genuinely funny as ever. .... But Extraordinary’s greatest superpower remains what it has always been: its heart. And in a pop culture landscape full of paint-by-numbers superhero stories, that actually counts for a whole lot.

80

Decider by Joel Keller

Extraordinary continues to mine humor from well-written characters and a finely-tuned ensemble, using its superhero conceit only occasionally.

80

The Guardian by Rebecca Nicholson

This is sparky, raucous comedy that tears through each of its 30-minute episodes with such energy that it never outstays its welcome.

80

i by Neil Armstrong

The show is surreal and subversive, funny and filthy. It’s packed with off-the-wall jokes and visual gags and a twist towards the end of the first episode delivers an unexpected emotional kick that took me by surprise.

80

The Telegraph by Benji Wilson

Extraordinary’s superpower is its freshness. It’s not always extraordinary, but it’s never dull.

80

The Daily Beast by Kyndall Cunningham

Sharply entertaining. It may not be as splashy or attention-grabbing as Hulu’s other offerings, but it certainly has a level of clarity and confidence regarding its thesis that’s missing from more experimental streaming programs as of late.

80

Wall Street Journal by John Anderson

Gleefully crude, rude, lewd and almost unfailingly likable eight-part series that is quite the unusual thing—a sci-fi-inflected coming-of-age story and a sitcom that’s actually funny.

80

The New York Times by Mike Hale

It has a lot of fun playing with the conventions of that currently dominant genre, but it is equally representative of some other favorite modes of the Walt Disney Company: the sentimental buddy comedy and the inspirational triumph-of-the-underdog tale. There are many ways that blend could go wrong, but the show’s various strains are combined in a charming and consistently amusing fashion by its creator and writer, Emma Moran.