Supacell is a 2024 British superhero television series, created and written by Rapman for Netflix. Set in modern-day South London, the series is about a group of five ordinary Black British people, unified by family history of sickle cell disease and unexpectedly develop superpowers. They discover each other and fend off entrapment by a secret organisation seeking to control them. The series explores themes such as knife crime, racial profiling, poverty, and the exploitation of black bodies.
A group of seemingly ordinary black people from South London, unified by a family history of sickle cell disease, develop superpowers. They discover each other, and fend off entrapment by a secret organisation seeking to control them.