One easy war to describe Extraordinarily could be, xmen, but it's a comedy.
Another way to describe it, not much in the plot, but instead in style would be: "What we do in the shadows", but with superheroes instead of vampires.
That specific kind of British humor tries to demystify a certain fantastical element by marrying it with the mundane modern world and culture, looking to create a humorous tone dissonance of sorts. (like wwdits or ghosts)
And personally, I love the idea, I don't want to say brilliant because it's nothing new, but I think it's a great concept that lends itself really well to create a lot of fun situations, which is kind of the point of this kind of comedy.
In respect to how well this is accomplished, I would say its a bit of a mixed bag. I did find a lot of the situations funny or at least fun, and I thought a lot of references or details were somewhat clever or funny elements (like the mother who has the power to control technology but is so un-savvy that she always needs a co-pilot to help her navigate her own power or the pizza place called "the pizza bucket"), the truth is that a lot of the jokes are not very funny, its not rare that we see a scene that is trying hard, for a bit too long, to create a joke that, to me, personally, didn't really come together (like the scene with Hitler´s resurrection, or the racist country singer in ep 3), and while the general premise does work really well and a lot of elements are well crafted, the truth is that the characters themselves (and therefore the dialogue) prevented the show from reaching its true potential(to me personally).
The only character I only like so far is the medium girl, and sadly, a lot of her scenes are quite underwhelming, her boyfriend i don't really get, the main character I started liking, but it feels like she's getting flanderized into her pathetic petty loser role faster than you can say flash, and I think the humor with the boss turned child is just sort of... trashy.
I think extraordinary proves a fundamental truth of comedy series, it doesn't matter how good your plot is, the true juice of the show is going to be the characters and their interactions, and this element, to me, lacked just a bit of work, it's not terrible, but it definitely hindered the experience for me, let's see how it turns out, but for the moment, I give this a sort of fun 6.5/10.
Another way to describe it, not much in the plot, but instead in style would be: "What we do in the shadows", but with superheroes instead of vampires.
That specific kind of British humor tries to demystify a certain fantastical element by marrying it with the mundane modern world and culture, looking to create a humorous tone dissonance of sorts. (like wwdits or ghosts)
And personally, I love the idea, I don't want to say brilliant because it's nothing new, but I think it's a great concept that lends itself really well to create a lot of fun situations, which is kind of the point of this kind of comedy.
In respect to how well this is accomplished, I would say its a bit of a mixed bag. I did find a lot of the situations funny or at least fun, and I thought a lot of references or details were somewhat clever or funny elements (like the mother who has the power to control technology but is so un-savvy that she always needs a co-pilot to help her navigate her own power or the pizza place called "the pizza bucket"), the truth is that a lot of the jokes are not very funny, its not rare that we see a scene that is trying hard, for a bit too long, to create a joke that, to me, personally, didn't really come together (like the scene with Hitler´s resurrection, or the racist country singer in ep 3), and while the general premise does work really well and a lot of elements are well crafted, the truth is that the characters themselves (and therefore the dialogue) prevented the show from reaching its true potential(to me personally).
The only character I only like so far is the medium girl, and sadly, a lot of her scenes are quite underwhelming, her boyfriend i don't really get, the main character I started liking, but it feels like she's getting flanderized into her pathetic petty loser role faster than you can say flash, and I think the humor with the boss turned child is just sort of... trashy.
I think extraordinary proves a fundamental truth of comedy series, it doesn't matter how good your plot is, the true juice of the show is going to be the characters and their interactions, and this element, to me, lacked just a bit of work, it's not terrible, but it definitely hindered the experience for me, let's see how it turns out, but for the moment, I give this a sort of fun 6.5/10.