<P> The Gifted is an American television series created for Fox by Matt Nix, based on Marvel Comics' X-Men properties . It is connected to the X-Men film series, set in an alternate timeline where the X-Men have disappeared . The show is produced by 20th Century Fox Television in association with Marvel Television, with Nix serving as showrunner . </P> <P> The series stars Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker as ordinary parents who take their family on the run after they discover their children's mutant abilities . Sean Teale, Natalie Alyn Lind, Percy Hynes White, Coby Bell, Jamie Chung, Blair Redford, and Emma Dumont also star in the show, with Skyler Samuels and Grace Byers joining them with the second season . The series received a put pilot commitment at Fox after a previous attempted X-Men television series did not move forward at the network in 2016; The Gifted was ordered to series in May 2017 . </P> <P> The Gifted's first season aired from October 2, 2017, to January 15, 2018, over 13 episodes . It received mostly positive reviews from critics and "solid" viewership . In January 2018, the series was renewed for a 16 - episode second season, to begin airing on September 25, 2018 . </P> <P> Two ordinary parents take their family on the run from the government when they discover that their children have mutant abilities, and join an underground community of mutants who have to fight to survive . At the end of the first season several members of the underground leave to join the Inner Circle, and the second season sees conflict between these groups as well as others with their own extreme ideologies . </P>

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