Sony Renews Powers for a Second Season on Your PlayStation
Maybe using your game console for watching exclusive television series instead of running through Bloodbourne for a ninth time is a thing that will actually happen. Sony has renewed its PlayStation-exclusive series Powers for a second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Season 2 will air sometime in 2016, but no episode count was announced. For what it's worth, Season 1 consisted of 10 episodes.
Powers is PlayStation's first and only original scripted series and is available free for subscribers to PlayStation's PlayStation Plus subscription service and available for purchase from the PlayStation Network. Long story short, you aren't going to see the whole series unless you have a PlayStation, which was the huge caveat with the show. Apparently, Sony liked enough of the viewership stats—which were not made available—to continue with another season.
Jumping into the TV superhero fray, Powers is based on Brian Michael Bendis' comic of the same name, and follows a pair of cops who solve superhero-related crimes in a city where superheroes are part of the norm. District 9's Sharlto Copley, Susan Heyward, Eddie Izzard, and Michelle Forbes star.
Reception of the series has been varied, with early reviews tallying an unimpressive Metacritic score of 51. I was slightly more positive—emphasis on "slightly"—when I reviewed it just before the premiere.
What did you think of Powers? Were you able to watch it at all? What's better, the Xbox One or the PlayStation 4? What is your opinion of baity questions that try to start flamewars between fanboys?
