Everyone around Jen has a superpower. Extraordinary, a British comedy series from 2023, spends its energy on the one person who doesn't — and finds most of its jokes in the gap between what she's supposed to be able to do and what she's actually stuck with.
What is Extraordinary about?
Jen is turning twenty-five in a world where powers arrive on a person's eighteenth birthday, except hers never showed up. Around her, flatmates and friends navigate abilities that are less glamorous than useful — or occasionally not useful at all — while Jen tries to figure out who she is without one. The show leans into workplace and roommate comedy as much as superhero premise: awkward dates, messy flatshares, and a search for identity that has nothing to do with flying or invisibility. It's a coming-of-age story wearing a genre costume, using the absence of a power as a way to talk about the ordinary panic of turning twenty-five with nothing figured out.
About the cast
Mairéad Tyers leads as Jen, playing frustration and comic timing without tipping into cynicism. Sofia Oxenham, Bilal Hasna, and Luke Rollason fill out the flatshare as friends whose own powers create as many problems as they solve, giving the series its ensemble comic rhythm.
Context & significance
Extraordinary premiered in 2023 as a UK production directed by Emma Moran, built around 25-minute episodes that keep pacing tight and jokes frequent. It landed to a strong critical response, praised for finding a fresh angle on an oversaturated superpower premise by making the joke about not having one rather than about having too much. Genres span action, adventure, comedy, fantasy, and sci-fi, though the show leans hardest on character comedy over spectacle.
Watching Extraordinary on Ktime
Extraordinary is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so its rapid, joke-dense dialogue comes through clearly for Farsi-speaking viewers. A free K-Time account login is all that's needed to start watching — the show's page and background here are open to read without one. K-Time's Farsi interface is built for the Iranian diaspora, making comedies like this one easy to follow scene by scene.