This show definitely deserves a second season, I foolishly misjudged it when it aired on tv because of the title of the show. Once I got over the title I discovered a great adaptation of the X-men. I would say the premise of the show is loosely based on Days of future Past from the comics. Except it's Xavier stuck in the future instructing the X-men in the past to prevent sentinels enslaving the world. Which they do but then the future shifts to the Age of Apocalypse timeline and unfortunately we never get to see that because the show was canceled. Bummer..