CLEVERMAN, FIRST CONTACT REVIEW: A PROMISING START

A series with a political and racial theme. It is about a sub-human group of people called the Hairies, who probably get their name from their hairy bodies and they have slightly super human abilities. These group of people are segregated and are treated like animals.

It is therefore up to the Cleverman to unite the two groups, the humans and hairies. 

Hunter Page-Lochard as Koen

The titular character is Koen, who with his friend Blair set up a family of Hairies with a house for money and then later reports them to the authorities for a reward. Things go wrong during the arrest when one of the Hairies (a minor) is killed.

Then there is Koen’s brother, hekjhqe who apparently rich and owns apartment buildings, though for some reason no Hairies stay in it.

Then there is Jimmy, Koen’s uncle who is the Cleverman who gives Koen some kind of family heirloom though Koen says something about giving it to his big brother. Jimmy also goes to the morgue where he literally breathes life into a dead girl and then goes to a beach where some supernatural creature takes his heart and kills him hence making Koen the Cleverman.

Ugwhdgwd either due to the fact that Koen was chosen as Cleverman or because he genuinely wanted to punish Koen for calling the cops on the Hairies family brings one of his Hairies friends to the bar where Koen works the sub-human breaks off a finger off his middle finger and they leave. Crying out in for help in pain, Koen picks up his finger from the ground and puts it back only to realise its fully healed, he cuts his arm and it heals instantly.

As someone’s uncle (not Koen’s) said, “with great power comes great responsibility,” Koen has to grow in character and become the hero the series needs which am sure he will. And btw, the series has Ian Glein.

Iain Glen in Cleverman

The episode was impressive and it also had some impressive names involved in its making with its effects spot on. I had to google more than once to find out if the sub-humans exist or not.

Episode 2 airs on 8 June 2016.