Vanessa Hudgens, Danny Pudi, and Alan Tudyk couldn’t get this show to take flight.
In hindsight, the 2010s unquestionably became a golden age for DC Comics adaptations on television. Previous decades had seen plenty of prolific DC TV shows emerge into the pop culture zeitgeist, namely the Adam West Batman show or Smallville. But the with introduction of the Arrowverse programs, not to mention other small-screen entities like Gotham, the 2010s were an era where DC TV shows were everywhere.
What Was ‘Powerless’ Again? Powerless was, like way too many live-action DC adaptations, rooted in the mythos of Batman. The main characters all work at the Research & Development at Wayne Security which is connected to Wayne Enterprises . Our lead character is Emily Locke , while Community veteran Danny Pudi shows up as prank-master Teddy. In case it isn't obvious by now, Powerless really wants to be The Office 2.0, with Teddy serving as an obvious Jim stand-in.
NBC Was an Odd Choice for ‘Powerless' On top of all that, Powerless was almost always destined to fail because of the network it aired on. On paper, NBC seemed like an ideal home for any pastiche of the American version of The Office since this was the location that Michael Scott thrived on for years. However, there were no other major superhero shows airing on NBC at this time and even super-heightened genre shows were sparse on the network in the 2016-2017 season.
Then there's the presence of Justin Halpern on the show's writing staff . At the time, Halpern was known as the guy behind the Sh*t My Dad Says Twitter feed, a popular social media entity that he parlayed into a TV writing career. As part of that career, he first engaged in the world of DC Comics adaptations by writing on the show iZombie before moving on to work on Powerless.
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