We go around saving lives, while ruining them at the same time.

Invincible S2 — 4/5

I think what works best for me in this series, which is pretty faithful to a comic that I'm a pretty big fan of, is that you can tell Mark Grayson is a genuinely good person. It makes good of its TV format to show him wandering around for 15 minutes absolutely destroyed by having lost control, or lingering on a break-up that neither person really wants. We've got time to see him deal with the hard reality of being powerful, and others dealing with the hard reality of being small in a world of powerful people. The seeming lightness of the show and its style and its voice actors is undercut by yes, the extreme violence, but also this current of sadness. People are hurt, lives are lost, and people carry the weight of it. The best thing you can do in comics or sci-fi or fantasy is to create a world, and here it is; a world where you want everyone to be happy, and understand why they can't be.