Choices - Bitten and Powers

Cool, hot werewolf fascists.

Bitten is a series based on part of the 'Women of the Otherworld' novel franchise, which tells the story of the only female werewolf and all the ways in which her werewolf family of killer, fascist casualwear models exempt her from the draconian werewolf law that they enforce, without ever really talking about it. It's been sitting on the box for a while, but despite its promise of a strong, female lead and all, it's really just about another superspecialsnowflake who just wants a normal life, by which I mean that she wants to get away from the communal pack house, a massive, richly appointed mansion in upstate New York, and her super-hot genius tenured ex-fiance to live with her superhot new fiance in his vast loft in Toronto and effortlessly sliding into celebrity photographer status. I would have far more sympathy for this character if she were choosing an actual ordinary life, and this - plus still not having enough hours in the week - is basically why I'm dropping it. That and, seriously, the 'noble pack' are a bunch of idiot fascists, enforcing a law that makes no sense in a modern world and making a crushing rod for their own backs because of it.

Produced by Playstation. For reals.

Powers, on the other hand, is a super low-budget superhero show, set in a world in which superpowers are common, and Powers are celebrities with agents and social media presences. It's not an uninteresting setup, and Eddie Izzard makes a really creepy master villain, but it's hampered hard by its budget whenever it actually wants to use superpowers. This might not be a problem, but none of the characters are really likeable enough, nor the story compelling enough, to get past that. So Powers is off the list as well.

Of course, that's like ten stored episodes, which is 1 or 2 percent of the box storage, but about seven hours of my life saved.