Extraordinary: Máiréad Tyers, who also appeared in Kenneth Branagh’s film Belfast, is fantastic as Jen. Photograph: Laura Radford/Disney+There’s a strange – you could say extraordinary – moment early in Disney’s quirky new London-set comedy when a man in a balaclava jumps out of a car and starts shouting. “Get up, ya big English bastard,” he says. “Do as I say and I won’t kneecap ya. I’m conducing a campaign of terror on the mainland, so I am, for a United Ireland.
The joke, a centrepiece of the second instalment of Extraordinary , is that the “terrorist” is the nebbish boyfriend of one of the lead characters. The IRA costume is the cherry on top of the fake kidnapping he’s about to carry out. Trust me, it makes no more sense in the context of the episode. It’s as if Disney had a balaclava budget it urgently needed to spend before the end of the tax year.
Extraordinary is written by the 28-year-old Northern Ireland writer Emma Moran . Given her background, we must assume the IRA gag is a pithy commentary on British stereotypes of Irish people. Fair enough. But it doesn’t break the fourth wall so much as demolish it with Semtex, so it does. Extraordinary: Máiréad Tyers as Jen, Sofia Oxenham as Carrie and Siobhán McSweeney as Jen's mum. Photograph: Laura Radford/Disney+
It’s not the only joke that misfires. The premise of the series is that everyone in the world has a superpower, obtained upon reaching adulthood. There is one exception: a plucky heroine with a deadpan manner and no uncanny abilities. This was, of course, also the plot of. But that’s Disney, too, so at least there’s no danger of the lawyers unleashing their corporate kryptonite.
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