Dragonfly learn they’re one of four teams competing in challenges set by aliens within the artefacts…

One of my favourite series from last year is back, picking up from the cliffhanger where the four friends learned that there was far more going on than they had realised with the artefact they’d found in the woods – and there were 12 other people, apparently just like them, who had been waiting for them so a contest could start. A lot of the first episode is devoted to setting up the new parameters for the series – just who are these other teams, and can Dragonfly trust anyone apart from each other? – but there’s plenty of plot progression too, not least a quite stunning end of episode reveal that underlines just how far from a summer camp Louis and co. have gone.

There’s more revelations in the second episode, with a lot set in a fairground – one of the other team’s alternates (the landscape in which they can exercise their powers) – and a terrific stand-off between two of the teams, which results in some shifts in the power dynamic in Dragonfly. Not only that, there’s interesting developments for Kaz – Lee Walters and the team continuing to ensure that our protagonists feel like teenagers, rather than young adults, with all the good and bad points that come with that age. And the stakes are raised rather dramatically by what the team learns about the potential outcomes.

There’s something of a Battle Royale feel to these first episodes – although with considerably less bloodshed! – and we spend enough time with the new characters to appreciate the peril that they are all in.

Verdict: Silverpoint picks up where it left off with a strong opening pair of episodes. 9/10

Paul Simpson

 

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