After spending several years mainly exercising his funny bone on the sitcom The Mindy Project (with a side gig back in menace for Amazon's Hand Of God), Garret Dillahunt is getting back in the mysterious, potentially bad guy business for X-Men TV spin-off The Gifted.
Created by writer Matt Nix and executive produced by X-overseer Bryan Singer (who also directed the first episode), The Gifted finds Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker as parents Reed and Kate Strucker, who discover that their kids, Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind) and Andy (Percy Hynes White) possess mutant powers. Awkwardly, Reed works for the government and puts those who hide their mutant genes in jail...
Realising they need help, they turn to an underground group of mutants who help others hide and survive. They include Jamie Chung as Clarice Ferguson/Blink, who's endowed with the power of teleportation; Emma Dumont as Lorna Dane/Polaris, a daughter of Magneto who has inherited his magnetic abilities, Blair Redford as Sam/Thunderbird, the leader of the underground Mutant network and Sean Teale as Marcos Diaz/Eclipse, who's able to absorb and manipulate photons.
Dillahunt a veteran of Deadwood and movies such as 12 Years A Slave and Looper, will be a recurring presence on the show as Roderick Campbell, drafted in by Sentinel Services (tasked with hunting down the perceived mutant menace) as a researcher who specialises in those with powers – but a man with a dark agenda of his own.
The Gifted hits US TV screens on 2 October and kicks off on the Fox UK channel on 8 October at 9pm.