Hey ya’ll, I want to tell you about a great actress I discovered on a marginal television show. The show is The Gifted, and it does have some ok scenes and set pieces but is mostly unexceptional. Also, the two main characters are boring sops so that certainly does not help.

But then you have Emma Dumont. She’s got more screen presence and acting skills than nearly everyone else in the whole show put together. She plays Polaris and is not the main character but very much should be. I’d be far more content if the show were called Polaris and Some Other People, Who Cares, Emma Dumont Rules Show.

She’s one of the few that I’ve gone back and watched scenes a few times because she just rocks so much.

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To their credit, I think the writers and showrunners realized midway through the show that the main characters were irritating schmucks because as the series went on it became much more about Polaris and much less about those two little snivelers.

In her personal life, Dumont is an engineering student and was team captain in a major robotics competition when she was in high school. I care far more about what I see on the screen, but nice to know that she doesn’t torture kittens in her spare time, etc.

She is just great in the show and the reason to watch it. I like her so much I am going to watch a show I am pretty sure I won’t like called Aquarius just because she’s in it.