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Naomi (2022)

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Genre
drama, sci-fi & fantasy
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 13 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 106 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage comic book fan runs a Superman website and lives in a small Oregon town. After a strange event, she discovers she has superpowers and tries to find out where they came from with help from her friends and family.

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What happens

Naomi is an American superhero drama television series created by Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship which is based on the comic book series of the same name co-written by Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker and illustrated by Jamal Campbell. It follows Naomi McDuffie, a comic book-loving teenager and the host of a Superman fan website who learns she has powers and sets out to determine their origins with help from her best friend, her supporting adoptive parents, and a tattoo shop owner with a secret origin after a supernatural event occurs in Port Oswego, Oregon. The series stars Kaci Walfall, Cranston Johnson, Alexander Wraith, Mary-Charles Jones, Mouzam Makkar, Daniel Puig, Camila Moreno, Will Meyers, Aidan Gemme, and Barry Watson. It premiered on The CW on January 11, 2022, and concluded on May 10, 2022. In May 2022, the series was canceled after one season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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