The best kind of TV makes you stand up, shout at the screen, question the choices of a character who can't see or hear you (namely, because they aren't real), and leaves you sitting in a contemplative silence as the credits roll. X-Men '97 premiered in 2024 and did all that and more, filling a void in our hearts that so many of us millennials didn't even know we had after X-Men: The Animated Series ended on a cliffhanger some 27 years ago.
X-Men '97 proved itself to be the best damn thing to come out of the nostalgia-based era of remakes and revival seasons we're somehow still in, and it made sure to end on yet another cliffhanger – in case our hearts weren't broken enough. X-Men season 2 now brings the heat, and introduces a complicated, multi-layered storyline that takes place across three separate timelines: an oppressive, BC-era Egypt, a war-torn future planet that plans on putting what's left of its hope and faith into Nathan (yes, that Nathan), and a 1997 America that's being controlled by fearful bigots following the Prime Sentinel invasion.
