Rapman’s sprawling sci-fi drama is strikingly performed, bracingly plotted and its characters are up there with prestige TV’s finest. It’s ingenious

When it comes to superpowers, there are two that are considered the most desirable: flight and invisibility. As the US writer John Hodgman once pointed out, people who would choose flight have nothing to hide and are selfless, competent and unashamed. People who’d choose invisibility are deceitful, fearful, perverts.

The subjects of Supacell don’t have the privilege of choosing the powers they are assigned. Instead, they find themselves reeling from sudden supernatural abilities. Sweet nurse Sabrina (Nadine Mills) is given telekinesis, young rapscallion Tazer (Josh Tedeku) can turn invisible and become a “ghost”, inept drug dealer Rodney (Calvin Demba) can run to Edinburgh in a few seconds, single dad Andre (Eric Kofi-Abrefa) has extraordinary strength and can lift cars without breaking a sweat, and the show’s heart and soul, Michael (Tosin Cole), can move through time and space in the blink of an eye.

Supacell is on Netflix