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The first season of X-Men: Red Team, an American superhero drama television series based on based on Marvel Comics' series X-Men Red, was released by Ivy Plus between August 30 and November 1, 2023, comprising 10 episodes. The season follows a resurrected Jean Grey as she attempts to categorize mutants as part of the United Nations and forms a team of mutants to confront the mind-controller Cassandra Nova. The ensemble cast consists of Jessica Rothe, Ella Balinska, Anna Diop, Storm Reid, Stephan James, Tristan Lake Leabu, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Alexander Dreymon, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Carey Mulligan.

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
11"Jean Grey Returns"Lorene ScafariaChad DunbarAugust 30, 2023 (2023-08-30)
Through her Phoenix Force link, Jean Grey resurrects in 2018 after being dead for six years. In her awake, she visits friend Kurt Wagner and envisions the mutants as a part of the United Nations. Decided to integrate the mutants, she presents the idea during a meeting in which ambassador Patricia Marbury manifests against Grey's idea before her head blows up unexpectedly. Blamed for her death, Grey escapes the meeting with the help of Wagner and sisters Laura and Gabrielle Kinney, and receives asylum in Wakanda. There, King T'Challa and resident Nezhno Abidemi help Grey defeat her friend Ororo Monroe, who attacks Wakanda under the mental control of unknown forces. Grey recruits Wagner, the Kinney sisters, Abidemi, and Monroe to investigate Marbury's assassination, and hides in Atlantis with the help of King Namor McKenzie, keeping Monroe unconscious. She suggests to recruit Shilpa Khatri, an Indian mutant she has been studying. Elsewhere, an unknown woman[a] holds a piece of nanotechnology.
22"The Kinney Sisters"Lorene ScafariaChad Dunbar and Sara HessSeptember 6, 2023 (2023-09-06)
Failing to recreate the Weapon X experiment, Dr. Martin Sutter recruits geneticist Dr. Sarah Kinney, who suggests the creation of a female clone. She succeeds by mixing her own DNA with James Howlett's, the original Weapon X subject. Kinney is forced by Dr. Zander Rice, Sutter's protégé, to surrogate the birth and raise the child, named Laura. In the following years, Laura is submitted to intense training and experiments, which ultimately leads to her hatred against herself and others. At age 13, Laura kills Sutter and Rice and manages to escape after being injected with chemical compoud Trigger 42. Laura grows up surviving the streets and swearing revenge against Facility, the company that funded her creation. At age 22, she discovers several other female clones, with one of them, Gabrielle, being still alive. The two team up and kill Robert Chandler, responsible for Trigger 42 and Gabrielle's creation. Some time later, they choose to live under Charles Xavier's care in the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.
33"Got Scars to Say"Lorene ScafariaChad Dunbar and Andrew ChamblissSeptember 13, 2023 (2023-09-13)
Born to a Wakandan warrior and a Russian man from whom he inherited his X-Gene, Abidemi faces a life of persecution due to his outsider father, causing deep psychological trauma. At age 13, he is sent by T'Challa, by Storm's advise, to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. His ability to increase his muscle mass causes several injuries, leading T'Challa to cover Abidemi with Vibranium in order to prevent him from over-exerting. Finding other students from the Institute distracting, Abidemi turns into meditating and a focused lifestyle. His pacifist nature gives him the codename Gentle and he enters Storm's squad. In the present, Grey helps Abidemi with his constant nightmares and scary visions. Grey understands his pain is a subconscious mechanism to prevent himself from using his powers after suffering physical violence from his mother. Following their final session, Grey asks for Abidemi's help to rescue Khatri in India. In a post-credits scene, Gambit fails to stop a crazed man from killing a woman mutant.
44"Family Unfriendly"Lorene ScafariaChad DunbarSeptember 20, 2023 (2023-09-20)
Shilpa Khatri has the ability to control all forms of technology and faces prejudice from her family and school colleagues. Despite this, she grows to cherish and improve her powers. In present day, she transfers money from 25 Indian CEOs to the accounts of every working Indian woman. Khatri's father finds out and reports her. Before being caught and imprisoned by the Indian Mutant Defense Force (IMDF), she sends a voice message to Grey for help. Grey, Abidemi, and Namor rescue her, and Khatri takes control of a Sentinel deployed by IMDF to escape the facility. Khatri decides to join Grey's team. Back in Atlantis, she is able to identify and remove the Nano-Sentinel, a mind-controlling device, from Storm's brain. Meanwhile, Gambit is informed that David Bushell, responsible for killing mutant Cara Beckham, has been contained and arrested. Aware of Storm's similar recent attack in Wakanda, Gambit calls Grey to update her. As they talk, Grey and the team's base are attacked by Teen Abomination.
55"The Avenging Child"Lorene ScafariaChad DunbarSeptember 27, 2023 (2023-09-27)
In the early 1920s, Atlantis' princess Fen acquires info on humans after she meets Leonard McKenzie, a sailor instructed to find Vibranium in the Antarctic Ocean. They fall in love and Fen decides to live with Leonard after getting pregnant. Her father, Thakorr, attacks Leonard's ship, killing him. Fen resents her father and names her child Namor, which means "avenging son". Due to being an Atlantean Homo mermanus and also having the X-Gene, Namor presents superhuman strength, speed and durability, as well as other water-related abilities. It is shown that, in his youth, Namor battled in the World War II alongside Steve Rogers and befriended and helped Grey in various missions. In the present, Teen Abomination is subdued by Namor and Trinary manages to find a Nano-Sentinel in his brain. Connected with Grey's powers, Trinary manages to locate the device's origin. In New York, they find proof that Cassandra Nova is behind the attacks, including the one that happened in the United Nations meeting.
66"Crawling Nights"Lorene ScafariaChad Dunbar and Michael WaldronOctober 4, 2023 (2023-10-04)
Living in a German village under the alias of a married noblewoman, a young Mystique falls in love and becomes pregnant of the mysterious Azazel. During the baby's difficult delivery, Mystique's true form is revealed. A torch-wielding mob chase mother and son until Mystique passes out after putting baby Kurt inside a chest in a lake. The child is found by Margali Szardos, a Romani fortune teller and circus member. Kurt lives happily in the circus despite its ruthless owner, Max Getmann. He grows close to Stephan and Jimaine, Margali's biological children, and one day promises to Stephan to kill him if he ever kills someone else. As they get older, Stephan manifests evilness, until he murders three circus-goers and Kurt accidentally kills him. Kurt is chased by another furious mob, including Getmann, and is rescued by a nearby priest, whose church is burned down by the mob. Before Getmann kills Kurt, Charles Xavier appears and rescues him, programming the mob to remember Kurt dying.
77"The Perfect Storm"Lorene ScafariaChad DunbarOctober 11, 2023 (2023-10-11)
88"And Just like Magic"Lorene ScafariaChad DunbarOctober 18, 2023 (2023-10-18)
99"A Tale of Two Estranged Twins"Lorene ScafariaChad DunbarOctober 25, 2023 (2023-10-25)
1010"Get Off My Mind"Lorene ScafariaChad Dunbar and Sara HessNovember 1, 2023 (2023-11-01)

Cast and characters

Main

Recurring

Guest

To be ordered

Notes

  1. ^ Identified off-screen as Cassandra Nova.
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