Premiering Wednesday on the CW, The Tomorrow People is a remake of a British show from the 70's about teenagers who develop super powers fighting against a powerful organization that wants them contained. This update features a very CW cast of attractive twentysomethings playing teenagers and Mark Pellegrino (Lost, Supernatural) as the man who wants to control (or eliminate?) them. The pilot is an interesting, if derivative, hour that uses its nifty special effects judiciously and moves fast to get the story going.
Robbie Amell stars as Stephen Jameson, a Brooklyn teenager living with his mom and younger brother, who has hit some hard times. He's disliked at school, he's hearing a woman's voice in his head and his sleepwalking has become enough of a problem that the neighbors are now threatening to call the cops - all while his mom takes on extra shifts to pay the mounting bills for all his doctors. Their no-good dad skipped out on them years ago, but he still has some fond flashbacks of Dad doing slight-of-hand magic tricks for him as a kid.
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