Alpha People (TV series)

The events of the series unfold around five people, the so-called alpha, with various supernormal abilities, headed by renowned neuropathologist and psychologist Dr. Lee Rosen, who is trying to help his wards most effectively reveal their own potential and better control themselves.

The Rosen group, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense Criminal Investigation Service, uncovers a variety of crimes involving equally unusually gifted people. During the investigations, they repeatedly confront members of the extremist-minded alpha movement Red Flag, implicated both in crime and in terrorist acts throughout the United States.

The main characters of the series are far from the ideal of Superman, they have many problems associated with their own shortcomings and difficulties of socialization , and in addition, over time, each of them begins to doubt the correctness of their decisions and actions, faced with the manifestation of “double morality” and unjustified cruelty official authorities in relation to people alpha as such.

• David Strathairn is Dr. Lee Rosen , an expert in the US Department of Defense. He is not Alpha, but he is a specialist in people with supernormal abilities, as well as the head of his group. He tries to take care of his wards, which is given with great difficulty. Divorced, there is a daughter Daniel with alpha ability, which is why they do not get along very well.
• Ryan Cartwright - Gary Bell , ability: transduction : the ability to pick up all kinds of electromagnetic pulses, from telephone conversations to television broadcasts. He suffers from autism, which is why he has a peculiar character and constantly says things that should not be done, which sometimes makes the rest of the team members a little bit crazy. Lives with his mother.
• Warren Christie - Cameron Hicks , former Marine, ability: hyper kinesthesia : high body sensitivity, giving superhuman accuracy and precision. Divorced, there is a son Tyler, according to Hicks, who possesses alpha ability, but which he values ​​very much. Meets in the first season with Nina. After breaking up with her, she begins dating Daniel.
• Azita Ganizada - Rachel Pirzat , ability: extremely low thresholds for the absolute sensitivity of the senses (vision, hearing, smell, touch) and highly developed synesthesia . Rachel is able to see substances at the molecular level, to smell any odors, even adrenaline rush at the moment when people are afraid or angry, to hear the work of the human heart for several meters, but she is able to amplify only one feeling in one moment, while all the others are switched off, while she will not stop using the ability. Because of her ability, Rachel survived a not-so-happy time in her childhood, because even during dinner, she saw all the bacteria and germs on household items. He lives with his parents, in the third series of season 1, under the influence of pheromones, quarrels with his mother on the phone and moves to Nina.
• Laura Mennell - Nina Theroux , ability: hyperinduction (hypnosis, suggestion): the ability to convince a person of anything, acts only if you look into a person’s eyes. At first she could not control her powers, and used them whenever she wanted; later learns to control himself. In the first season, takes a romantic interest in Hicks, it turns out to be mutual until the end of the first season. At the beginning of the second season, it turns out that they broke up due to the fact that accidentally influenced him, and very much.
• Malik Yoba - Bill Harken , a former FBI agent, ability: to accelerate adrenaline through the body, giving superpower and speed; manifested in extreme situations. Married. Because of his strength, Bill has severe heart problems. In the absence of Rosen takes command over himself, he does not like disorder, for which he is sometimes called the "brute force of the team." Tries to get along with everyone in the department, although it turns out with difficulty.
• Erin Way - Kat , ability: hyperactive procedural memory with a short-term memory effect (for a month).

Season 1 (2011)

Season 2 (2012)

• Official website
• Alpha People at the Internet Movie Database