A bunch of low-level offenders from a city housing estate are assigned community service, something they take to like ducks to potholing. They get caught in a weird hailstorm and find that some of them have started to gain strange powers. This might not be a moment too late as the supervisor of the work detail has become a murderous zombie.

This series wants to be a gritty, youth-orientated show that speaks directly to its core audience and so has rebellious youths, bad language, blood, drugs and sex and superpowers all in one half hour. It's all directed in a hyper-kinetic fashion to appeal to the kids and uses their street language. The thing is that it might be trying too hard. The premise is strong enough to stand up on its own without the need for flashy direction and editing.

The other thing is that, though the show wants the audience to identify with the kids they really are a bunch of thoroughly dislikable yobs. One is thrown out of the house by a mother wanting to try a new relationship. Instead of feeling his betrayal with him, the audience can only wonder why it took her so long. And whilst we're being introduced to these characters there isn't enough time to get much of a plot in place, although by the end the gang have seen one of their number brutally slain, have gained their powers, killed a man and buried his body. A busy day in anyone's book.

The powers range from the obvious (invisibility) to the downright odd (turning anyone who touches them into raging balls of lust), but then these kids aren't the type to put on spandex and save the world.