History YMMV / TheGifted2017

* FunnyMoments: [[Funny/TheGifted2017 Has its own page.]]

* HeReallyCanAct: Sean Teale was a great choice as Eclipse, but he really got to show off his acting in "X-roads", seen when he pulls a ShutUpHannibal to one of the Frost sisters, and pleads for Lorna to [[spoiler:not destroy the plane containing Senator Montez and Dr. Campbell]].

** Though the fact that it was a private plane, rather than a commercial flight, making it more likely that there were few, if any, people that didn't have anything to do with them onboard.

** [[spoiler:Lorna]] arguably crosses it too. Not for the fact that she decides to kill [[AssholeVictim Senator Montez and Dr. Campbell]], but for [[spoiler: willingly destroying an entire plane, full of people who have nothing to do with them]] to do so.

** Stan Lee's cameo comes off as especially slapdash and thrown in at the last minute, with the camera following a random old guy walking out of a bar for an awkwardly long time.

* GatewaySeries: With obscure characters like [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/XMen Fenris]] ]] and [[ComicBook/PowerPack Dreamer]] being featured, many fans of the show have picked up comics where they they appeared.

* MorePopularSpinOff: There's a vocal segment of the ''X-Men'' fandom who vastly prefers this series to pretty much any of the mainline films that have been released to date, since it focuses on less-known characters and more willing to explore the nuances of discrimination and prejudices the mutants deal with.

** The Frost Sisters. They ''are'' based on the ''ComicBook/XMen'''s resident MsFanservice ComicBook/EmmaFrost, after all!

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fourth episode ended with Turner ordering the shut down of every safe house and mutant sympathizer around. That plotline never went anywhere.

** The WhamShot in the Season 1 finale that [[spoiler:Polaris is now dressing ''sexy'', meaning she's evil.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Sonya/Dreamer has her own little fanbase despite only appearing in a few episodes. This is due to her willingness to do anything to save people, like [[spoiler:implanting FakeMemories onto Blink to motivate her to save John and the group,]] for example. It got to the point where after [[spoiler:she was [[KilledOffForReal shot in the chest by Campbell]]]], many fans of the show have demanded a return of the character. This escalated when Creator/JamieChung, who played Blink on the show, said [[https://twitter.com/jamiechung1/status/940421175167082507 in a tweet]] that Elena Satine, who played Sonya, was a great scene partner.

* RootingForTheEmpire: You're not going to find many fans on the side of Sentinel Services, however [[spoiler: the Frost sisters (who are painted in the show as very extreme, to the point of not caring about killing children) do have a lot fans. Some were actually ''glad'' when Lorna joined their side and took out the plane carrying Dr. Campbell and Senator Montez (and the repeated reminders that there were also a lot of innocent people on the plane seem to specifically be put in because the crew was well aware no one would buy killing these two as any kind of irredeemable action). A lot of does come from the dire situation mutants are (in a level that's extreme, even for this franchise) and the Mutant Underground making no headway in the fight and just hiding.]]

** [[spoiler:Esme]] takes a ''flying leap'' across the event horizon when she [[spoiler:[[PsychicAssistedSuicide psychically forces]] Agent Turner's ''entire convoy'' to murder each other so she can rescue her sisters. Especially given that the Struckers had ''finally'' [[HeelFaceDoorSlam started to get through to Agent Turner]]]]. If that wasn't enough, there is also another moment for all three sisters, namely [[spoiler: tipping off Sentinel Services, getting dozens of innocent mutants captured and possibly experimented on by Dr. Campbell, all just to lure the Mutant Underground on their side]].

* RootingForTheEmpire: You're not going to find many fans on the side of Sentinel Services, however [[spoiler: the Frost sisters (who are painted in the show as very extreme, to the point of not caring about killing children) do have a lot fans. Some were actually ''glad'' when Lorna joined their side and took out the plane carrying Dr. Campbell and Senator Montez. A lot of does come from the dire situation mutants are (in a level that's extreme, even for this franchise) and the Mutant Underground making no headway in the fight and just hiding.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: As usual for ''X-Men'' stories, the series can be read as a metaphor for persecuted minorities. In this case, minorities persecuted by the authorities, being denied decent health care, having difficulties finding jobs due to their appearance and ultimately falling into illegality to ensure their survival. Sound familiar? Furthermore, the storyline of the wealthy, suburban, white Strucker family who discovers with astonishment how laws apply differently on the over side of the societal ladder, can be interpreted as a metaphor of discovering what is "privilege".

** HarsherInHindsight: In the Season 1 finale, Lauren asks if an evacuation call is real despite it containing the phrase "This is not a drill." This was unfortunately much more understandable by the time it aired, as two days earlier there had mistakenly been a nuclear attack warning in Hawaii containing the same phrase, which took more than a half hour to be corrected.