The Tomorrow People (US) - Episode 2 REVIEW

You know you’ve got a great villain when he’s the main character’s Uncle – jealous and vengeful against his brother’s abilities to the extent that he’ll wipe out his brother’s entire species, and that is what Jedikiah Price is.
Stephen is trying to get to grips with his new-found abilities while trying to persuade Cara and John that working for Ultra is a good idea, while trying to get inside Ultra itself. This second episode carries on the threads from the first, and a previously sequence at the beginning appears to be a great help for those who weren’t paying attention to Episode 1.
It’s clear that Jedikiah will stop at nothing to annihilate the Tomorrow People, to the extent that he locates break-outs and uses brain-washed Tomorrow People to hunt them down, so that Ultra can either kill or destroy their powers. This proves to be the case when their next target is a teenage criminal, of whom Stephen must try and protect but not draw attention to himself. Worse still, Jedikiah has a Tomorrow Person interrogating Stephen psychically!
There is some emotion to the episode though, with a flashback as to what happened to Stephen’s father, building up the thread of just what happened to him, and whether he is still alive.

The episode has a considerable amount of tension involved, but it is simply another set-up episode, which means an individual story is, for the most part, absent. However, it’s still an entertaining watch, with some great fight sequences and action which uses the Tomorrow People’s abilities very well, despite their inability to kill. Cara seems to be quite awesome as well, beating the living smeg out of people, and she also appears to be the “break out” specialist of the Tomorrow People.  7/10

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