Warning: Full spoilers for The Gifted’s Season 2 premiere follow…
Even though events in The Gifted’s Season 2 premiere more solidly defined the adversarial Inner Circle – a decades-after-the-fact offshoot of the Hellfire Club that…now only has four(ish) members thanks to Reeva Payge’s (Empire’s Grace Byers) culling in the first scene – the story remained hyper-personal and emotional.
Skipping ahead six months, and centering things around Polaris giving birth to her daughter, “eMergence” (we’re capitalizing the “M” now…to spell out X-Men over four seasons?) was able to nicely focus in on the show’s characters instead of setting up a big seasonal “bad guy” plot for our heroes to tackle. The heart of this chapter came down to Marcos wanting to be there for his baby’s birth and Lorna wanting to protect her child, no matter what, if things went wrong with her super-powered, chaotic labor.
Source: IGN.com The Gifted: Season 2 Premiere Review