"eXposed" is the pilot and first episode of the American television series The Gifted, based on Marvel Comics' X-Men properties.

It is connected to the X-Men film series, and follows two parents who take their family on the run after discovering their children's mutant abilities.

The pilot was written by series creator Matt Nix, with frequent X-Men film director Bryan Singer directing the episode.

The show stars Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker, with Sean Teale, Natalie Alyn Lind, Percy Hynes White, Coby Bell, Jamie Chung, Blair Redford, and Emma Dumont.

The next day, district attorney Reed Strucker tries to convince Polaris to cooperate with him in exchange for a reduced sentence, and notifies her that an examination revealed her to be pregnant.

The new pilot, written by X-Men fan Matt Nix, was for an action-adventure series based on ordinary parents discovering their children's mutant abilities.

"[11] Nix decided to end the episode with the main characters separated, to avoid them "settling into a rut, saving a mutant every week.

[19] The guest cast for the episode was revealed in September 2017, including Joe Nenners as Agent Ed Weeks, Matthew Tompkins as D.A.

Cal Jones, Steffan Argus as Jack, Dalton Gray as Jake, Pierce Foster Bailey as Trevor, Giovanni Devito as Dax, Toks Olagundoye as Carla, and Jeff Daniel Phillips as Bartender.

[21] Additional appearances in the episode include Dinarte de Freitas as Pedro, Josh Henry as Ben, Jason Jamal Ligon as Side-Eye, Hayley Lovitt as Sage, and Jermaine Rivers as Shatter.

[32] As an on-set joke, Ron Wasserman's theme from the 1990s X-Men animated series was used as a character's cell phone ring tone.

[35] The first footage from the episode was revealed in a trailer for Fox's May 2017 Upfront presentation, which Hoai-Tran Bui of /Film said "looks like a Singer take on Heroes."

[41] Within three days, the episode's rating share for the 18 to 49 demographic had risen to 2.3, and its total viewership was up 2.4 million to 7.3 million viewers; this was the highest three-day increase for a Fox series released on Monday in over a year, and the highest three-day increase for any series released on Monday at 9 pm in three years.

[42] Giving his first impression of the series' pilot for TVLine, Matt Webb Mitovich praised the "instantly engaging premise" and visual effects.

He felt the entire cast was solid, which he called "no easy feat with an ensemble this size", and also highlighted the clear establishment of the characters' relationships and the significant plot twists featured in the episode.

[43] Dominic Patten at Deadline Hollywood called the episode "quite good", feeling that the series is derivative of Heroes but "sets the stakes legitimately high" and covers timely issues.

[45] Kelly Lawler from USA Today reacted positively to the episode, giving it three-and-a-half stars out of four and saying it "has a handle on both its source material and the best way to adapt it."

[46] Daniel Fienberg, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, said he could not call the series "mandatory or necessary viewing", but "a solid family dynamic and Bryan Singer's direction help Fox's new X-Men-adjacent drama get off to a decent start."

Fienberg said the most essential element established in the episode was the Strucker family dynamic, but that this did become "soapy" in places and was only balanced out by the several action sequences.

[47] Christian Holub from Entertainment Weekly gave the pilot an "A−" rating, calling it a "great, fast-paced start" to the series, noting Singer's direction, and saying, "While expertly deploying many familiar tropes from the X-Men mythos, the show also feels like a genuinely new story rooted in our current cultural moment.

"[48] At The Washington Post, David Betancourt wrote that The Gifted is "surprisingly just as good as any other comic-book-inspired show on network television."