In America , your 18th birthday is marked ( usually ) by meet the right to vote . InHulu ’s upcoming TV series Extraordinary , mass welcome a miscellaneoussuperpower — with the elision of Jen ( Máiréad Tyers ) , who ’s oversee to make it to 25 without discover what power she receive , if any . But this Britcom turns Jen ’s woes into a rather poignant — although very funny!—tale of a woman searching for her identity .
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If this feel reminiscent of the popular anime seriesMy Hero Academia , which begins with a young boy named Izuku Midoriya who also does n’t have superpowers in a creation where nearly everyone else has them , well … yeah . But the similarities with Extraordinary distinctly break off there . Here ’s the official abstract : “ Meet Jen . She lives in a universe where everyone has a great power . Everyone except her . Which is just sod great . sinful is somewhere between a situation comedy and an existential crisis : an eye - popping , scandalous , screaming , and bittersweet funniness about discover your way in the humankind , when all you ’ll ever be is ‘ ordinary ’ . ”
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Extraordinary premiere on Hulu on January 25 .
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