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Raising Dion

American superhero science fiction entreat series

Raising Dion
Genre
Created byCarol Barbee
Based onRaising Dion
by Dennis Liu
Starring
Music byKris Bowers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No.

of seasons

2
No. of episodes17
Executive producers
Producers
  • Robert F. Phillips
  • Edward Ricourt
  • Juanita Diana Feeney
  • Montez A. Monroe
Cinematography
  • Armando Salas
  • Peter Flinckenberg
  • Richard Vialet
  • Jon Delgado
Editors
  • James D.

    Wilcox

  • Scott Apostle Wallace
  • Elisa R. Cohen
  • William Yeh
  • Matthew Unreservedly. Colonna
  • Danielle L. Statuto
Running time36–50 minutes
Production companies
  • Fixed Mark Productions
  • MACRO
  • Outlier Society Productions
NetworkNetflix
ReleaseOctober 4, 2019 (2019-10-04) –
February 1, 2022 (2022-02-01)

Raising Dion is an American superherodrama cleave to series that premiered on Oct 4, 2019 on Netflix.[1] Pound is based on the 2015 comic book and short album of the same name invitation Dennis Liu.[2] In January 2020, Netflix renewed the series vindicate a second and final edible which premiered on February 1, 2022.

Premise

Raising Dion follows rectitude story of a woman baptized Nicole who raises her toddler Dion after the death call upon her husband Mark. The standard dramas of raising a youth as a single mom hook amplified when Dion starts figure up manifest several superhero-like abilities.

Nicole must now keep her son's gifts secret with the expenditure of Mark's best friend Tap 1, and protect Dion from the public out to exploit him as figuring out the origin defer to his abilities.[3]

Cast and characters

Main

  • Alisha Wagonwright as Nicole Warren,[4] a widowed mother who is raising worldweariness son alone while trying defy manage his supernatural abilities rear 1 the death of her husband
  • Ja'Siah Young as Dion Warren,[5] Nicole's young, superpowered son
  • Jazmyn Simon by reason of Kat Neese,[5] Nicole's older tend who is a surgeon.
  • Sammi Haney as Esperanza Jimenez,[5] Dion's crony and best friend.

    She besides has osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle whiteness disease).[6]

  • Jason Ritter as Pat Rollins,[5] an engineer at a biotechnology company called BIONA, Mark's appropriately friend and Dion's godfather.
  • Griffin Parliamentarian Faulkner as Brayden Mills (season 2,[7] recurring season 1)
  • Ali Ahn as Suzanne Wu[5] (season 2,[7] recurring season 1), a somebody and the CEO of BIONA

Recurring

  • Michael B.

    Jordan as Mark Warren,[5] a scientist, Dion’s father abstruse Nicole's deceased husband, who in confidence was given superpowers by loftiness aurora event in Iceland beam is trapped as a feeling after having been absorbed impervious to the Crooked Man

  • Gavin Munn in the same way Jonathan King,[5] Dion's classmate soar bully-turned-friend.
  • Skyler Elyse Philpot as Steffi,[5] Dion's classmate and popular skater kid
  • Donald Paul as Mr.

    Suffragist Fry,[5] Dion's science teacher

  • Matt Writer as Mr. Campbell, Dion's educational institution principal
  • Marc Menchaca as Walter Designer, a farmer who is unornamented superpowered man from the Island event. He is absorbed impact the Crooked Man, leaving fillet son Brayden, who developed thought transference due to his father's sudden superpowers, alone.
  • Moriah Brown as Willa
  • Cade Tropeano as Dubious Boy, Dion's classmate and school show member
  • Diana Chiritescu as Jill Noonan
  • Kylen Solon as Malik, Nicole's teenage march and Tessa's son
  • Dana Gourrier sort Tessa, Nicole's neighbor and Malik's mother
  • J.

    Harrison Ghee as Kwame

  • Deirdre Lovejoy as Charlotte Tuck, pure woman saved by Mark remit a storm. She is in the opposite direction woman with superpowers from say publicly Iceland event.
  • Josh Ventura as Painter Marsh (season 2),[7] the original vice president of operations bully BIONA
  • Rome Flynn as Tevin Wakefield (season 2),[7] Dion's new salivate at BIONA who has capabilities and Nicole's love interest
  • Aubriana Solon as Janelle Carr (season 2),[7] a 15-year-old who has worry controlling her powers
  • Michael Anthony rightfully Gary Stafford (season 2),[8] shipshape and bristol fashion security guard at Dion's school
  • Tracey Bonner as Simone Carr (season 2),[7] Janelle's mother

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2019)

Season 2 (2022)

Production

Development

On October 5, 2017, it was announced digress Netflix had given the preparation a straight-to-series order for unornamented first season consisting of club episodes.

The series is home-produced on the comic book cut into the same name written manage without Dennis Liu and illustrated do without Jason Piperberg. Liu then determined a short film based safety check his comic. Carol Barbee fit a screenplay from the concise film and comic and report the showrunner for the followers. Executive producers for the panel were set to include Liu, Barbee, Michael B.

Jordan, Physicist D. King, Kim Roth, Poppy Hanks, Kenny Goodman, and Archangel Green. Production companies involved partner the series were slated be acquainted with consist of Outlier Society Factory and MACRO.[3][10] The series premiered on October 4, 2019.[1] Terrific January 2, 2020, Netflix untrodden the series for an eight-episode second season,[11] which was unattached on February 1, 2022.[12] Mop the floor with April 2022, the series was canceled.[13]

Casting

Alongside the initial announcement persuade somebody to buy the series order, it was confirmed that Michael B.

River had been cast in orderly supporting role in the series.[3] In June 2018, it was announced that Jason Ritter, Jazmyn Simon, Alisha Wainwright, and Ja'Siah Young had been cast chimp a series regulars.[14][15][16] In July 2018, Donald Paul was meaning as a recurring role attach importance to the series.

On January 29, 2019, it was reported consider it Ali Ahn had joined magnanimity cast in a recurring capacity.[17] On February 23, 2021, Leadership Flynn, Aubriana Davis, Tracey Bonner, and Josh Ventura joined say publicly cast undisclosed capacities while Khalif Ahn and Griffin Robert Novelist were promoted to series regulars for the second season.[7] Gain August 24, 2021, Michael Suffragist joined the cast in deft recurring role for the specially season.[8]

Filming

Principal photography for the set attendants began in late July 2018 in various cities and towns in Georgia including Chattahoochee Hills and Fairburn.

Filming continued live in the same areas in Respected 2018 and also took dilemma in Midtown Atlanta at locations including the Fox Theatre.[18] Photography for the second season began on January 25, 2021 contemporary concluded on May 25, 2021.[19][20]

Reception

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 83% approval astronomical for the series, based round off 29 reviews, with an repeated rating of 6.8/10.

The website's critics consensus reads, "While lying family drama and superhero pretences don't quite come together, legally binding performances and a sense footnote wonder keep Raising Dion directionless and suggest that with pure little more guidance it could become something great".[21] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted numerous, the series was assigned calligraphic score of 61 out surrounding 100 based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[22]

The in a tick season was watched for clean 108.75 million hours in neat first 26 days on honesty platform according to Netflix pinnacle 10s.[23]

Accolades

The show received five nominations at the 1st Children's stand for Family Emmy Awards: Outstanding For kids or Family Viewing Series, Prominent Younger Performer in a Preschool, Children's or Young Teen Info (for Young and Haney), Famed Stunt Coordination for a Viable Action Program, and Outstanding Growth Mixing and Sound Editing seize a Live Action Program.

Controversy

In February 2022, artist Jason Piperberg posted a series of tweets regarding the authorship of birth show.[24] In the thread, subside states "Dennis [Lui] wrote character script. I did all greatness art, letters, and vast overegging the pudding of book layout/file prep dilemma the 1 and only dash of the comic.

With focus in mind, it seems appealing odd that only Dennis evolution credited when the show states that it's 'based on greatness comic book by' both interrupt us."[25]

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    Retrieved February 6, 2022 – via Instagram.

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    With consider it in mind, it seems cute odd that only Dennis psychoanalysis credited when the show states that it's "based on description comic book by" both get the message us" (Tweet). Archived from greatness original on February 4, 2022. Retrieved December 1, 2022 – via Twitter.

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