Episode Forty-Eight - The Darkest Minds (2018)
- Author
- Trev Snyder & Chris Sorgiovanni
- Published
- Tue 05 Jul 2022
- Episode Link
- https://sites.libsyn.com/290192/episode-forty-eight-the-darkest-minds-2018
The "Summer Surprise" series continues, with this look at the adaptation of the first book in Alexandra Bracken's popular YA dystopian sci-fi series. A world where the only surviving children of a mysterious plague all end up with superpowers, and are thus targeted for extermination, or worse, by the government - it should have been a perfect match-up of the successful YA and Superhero genres. So what happened? Was it simply too late in the YA movie cycle, or were there larger problems at play?
