Supacell Season 1 Netflix Review

Supacell follows five strangers brought together in South London due to all having a close relative with sickle cell disease. The genes mutated, and they are part of the “rare” few who received superpowers.

But judging by how many people our core 5 come in contact with that have activated their powers, I wonder how rare it is at all. I do have to wonder as well, if in addition to the stress of their lives, if solar flares and radiation in their world too, has caused this manifestation.

What do you think?

Michael

Supacell follows 5 south London residents who realize hidden potential in there bloodline.

We have Michael, the hardest working delivery man in South London who is finally happy in his life and wants to marry his longtime girlfriend, Dionne. A shady mystery group who resembles (in my opinion) the Knights Templar later kills her. When Michael is transported to the future the first time, he is told by his older self that he needs all 5 of them to stop Dionne’s death.

Due to a mishap with Andre getting captured before their meeting, they are only 4 and despite Andre defecting to their side during the final fight at A Town, Dionne is ultimately shot by Krazy, 3 months before her intended time of death.

Did Michael manage to change the future, or speed up an inevitable fate?

Andre

We have Andre, an admittedly hard working man who has been dealt a poor hand in life. Also I’m sorry to say, this character along with Tazer annoyed me the most in this story.

Andre is trying to keep his son AJ off the streets despite the local drug dealers all but outright stalking the young man for “work”.
Because Andre fails to disclose his past criminal record on jobs, he is often fired abruptly. 

One night, he accidentally breaks an ATM using his super strength, and uses this money to get by and treat his son, AJ.

Presumably not wanting the missing bills to be tracked back to him, Andre does not decide to pay off any of his outstanding bills. This leads to bill collectors coming in his door one day (left open due to Andre believing it was his son doubling back for a forgotten item on the way to school) and trying to garnish his possessions. 

AJ walks in on this (actually forgetting something and returning home) and gets it in his mind – as teenagers do – that he needs to help his father out.

Now, where Andre begins to piss me off starts with a misunderstanding.  When the 5 use their powers at a high capacity,  they are often out cold afterwards. 

I don’t fault Andre for that, but rather the reasoning behind his crash out that caused a misunderstanding between he and AJ that resulted in AJ working for the OPs – Andre let his smooth-talking friend who owns an establishment convince him to rob the local trap house – which the drug dealers trying to poach AJ work at.

Not only did Andre miss when AJ was trying to talk to him due to the crash out after the heist,  the usually highly perceptive Andre missed his son sitting in the backseat of the drug dealers car outside the trap house when Andre and his friend when to scope the place out after Andre bailed on his plans with AJ for this nonsense.

Andre ultimately ends up working for the shady organization that is trying to trap or kill those with awakened abilities, all while his son AJ sells drugs a few feet away from him in A Town without Andre knowing.

Sabrina

Sabrina was my favorite of the cast and like Michael, I enjoyed watching her scenes.  Mainly because like Michael, Sabrina was generally a positive person who was trying to make the best of her less than ideal situation – which was often exacerbated by her thot sister Sharlene’s ridiculous ways.

Sabrina’s the oldest of the pair, and judging by the set design and past conversations it seems the pair left Jamaica and came to England to not burden their parents.

Sabrina works at a hospital, and despite her sister’s negatively about the hospital never promoting “a black woman” to head nurse, Sabrina goes in early and leaves work late religiously – or atleast tries to, despite the shanagins of her sister Sharlene.

Apparently, both Sabrina and Sharlene seem to have some sort of issues surrounding men.

I don’t know what their father or home situation was like, but Sabrina was formerly with a man who was cheating on her. Despite making the best of the situation (and deterring Sharlene’s constant aggression toward the man) Sabrina eventually snapped and harmed the man with her telekinetic powers.

Honestly,  I think the dude deserved it. He didn’t die, and was shown to be genuinely afraid of Sabrina after the encounter. Despite feeling bad, Sabrina being the mature adult she is moved on from the encounter in a healthy manner.

The same cannot be said about her sister, Sharlene.

Sharlene

Sharlene consistently puts herself in danger and then wonders why bad things keep happening – never learning from the consequences of her mistakes.

Sharlene throws herself at Michael early on in the series and because Michael is a professional (and happily in a loving and respectful relationship) and rejects her advances, Sharlene gets angry and wonders if he’s gay.

Despite dating a man named “Krazy” who beat her before going to jail, Sharlene is won over by a shiny and expensive watch – which Krazy takes back after having sex with her, arguing with her, choking her out and then kidnaps Sharlene and brings her to the shady organization he works at that does illegal human experimentation.

That is not mentioning the interlude of the vampire-like dude with powers trying to rape Sharlene in a dark alleyway because she didn’t want to make out with him anymore.

Rodney

A character with the biracial blues, Rodney would most likely never associate or have contact with this group of people if it weren’t for his mysterious “black” father.

Rodney lives in a small flat with his white best mate, Spud. Together, they sell drugs together to make ends meet. While on drug runs, Rodney openly advertises his weed business on the street, while trying to pick up every white woman who passes him by, and smiling at every middle aged white woman in proximity of a “black” child.

Why do I keep bringing race and color up on Rodney’s section? Because it’s all the character thinks about.

Like Sharlene, Rodney seems to have a sort of complex about his race. Apparently,  his mom “abandoned him” to be with her racist husband, taking only her fairer skinned sister and leaving Rodney on his own at 16 to get a Hostel with Spud.

But as with most stories in this series, I have to wonder if that is really so.

Just because his mother’s husband didn’t want to take him in, doesn’t automatically mean that the man is a racist. I am not defending him if he is, we just don’t know the whole situation.

Was Rodney a problem child? Did the mother’s husband feel threatened by having “another man” in the house? Was Rodney fiercely protective of his mother to the point where it interfered with her relationship? We know none of these factors right now, so it wouldn’t be wise to make split second judgements based on something an arguably shitty character says.

Or maybe, just maybe the slight curl in his hair that he could straighten out, and the slight medium beige tinge of his skin really did piss his mother’s husband off. We won’t know until it’s explored in Season 2 – or beyond.

Tazer

Tazer is a presumably Muslim boy from Africa who is actually the devil. I could not stand watching this kid on screen, the sheer ignorance he displayed alone made me want to smack him through the TV.

Even worse, like Sharlene, Andre, and even Rodney – he reminded me of somebody I know in real life. So I felt as though I was watching them on screen when it really was the character portraying those actions.

I think what initially got me was Tazer being a perfect gentleman in front of his grandmother. He was respectful and acted like a humble servant despite them both knowing he was outside the estate being a hood booger and running “the opps” down with his comically large hunting knife,  “tazer”.

Speaking of which – why do UK folks always take our American slang words, style of dress, and musical influences while mocking and berating us at the same time? 

It was quite jarring hearing our slang one moment, and then having to turn on subtitles the next to hear the nonsense mumbled under the characters breath that turned out to be their lame slang words.

Despite Michael, Sabrina, and even Rodney saving this ungrateful cuss’ life, he continues to be hostile to these people toward the very end. He eventually comes around after learning that his mother didn’t abandon him, but was taken and killed by the shady organization that set up base around Ashington Estate.

(I just realized how many of these characters have mommy or daddy issues. Sabrina and Sharlene have daddy issues, and Rodney and Tazer have mommy issues. )

Ashington Estate

Taking one right out of They Cloned Tyrone‘s book,  all of the terrible things, disappearances, drug slinging, possible prostitution and murder is being sanctioned in the hood by shady people higher up in authority in a seemingly dilapidated building within plain sight of the average passersby.

I have to wonder how much this goes on in reality, especially since shows like Manifest show how government agents like FBI or even the CIA (allegedly) frequently operate in plain sight using shell companies, phony buildings, and alias names while in disguises. 

And these are most often found in bad areas of the “hood”.

Anyway, we find out that the “nice white lady” who runs the sickle cell research clinic and is suspiciously paying top dollar for sickle cell related or otherwise “black” blood is behind all of this mayhem. She had Michael’s picture up on her clipboard, and it won’t be long before she discovers that she has his mother already in her clutches.

I have to wonder if they have other facilities around the world, although I believe that was mentioned early on in an episode.

As Michael stated, while the “black” population has a higher density of sickle cell anemia, they are not the only people affected by that disease.  We even saw two siblings of another face in the final episode’s battle – proving that truth.

I don’t have anybody in my family who is affected by sickle cell so it looks like I won’t be getting mutated cells from the solar flare downloads that manifest in super powers – lol. 

At least not that way, perhaps.

Anywho, what did you think about Supacell? Did it surprise you in anyway? Are you excited for season 2?

I must admit I originally wasn’t going to watch Supacell, but a YouTuber I enjoy watching played a clip from the series and I was intrigued, and I ended up binging the whole thing yesterday on Netflix.

I’m glad I watched it – but tell me your thoughts.

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