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In small but significant ways. All the characters have more agency, and I didn't notice a big difference between the sexes. Not all the characters are White.

One brother-sister pair fall in love in the tv show, which is disturbing, but the tv show doesn't treat it like it's normal. (All seven kids were born on the same day to women who hadn't been pregnant that morning. They were raised together by an alien, a robot, and a sapient chimpanzee, so it's a weird family, but it's a family.)

Vanya still gets brainwashed and drugged by her father, and still tries to destroy the world when she learns that she actually does have power after all, but she has agency in the tv show, which is partly the script and partly that she's played by Ellen Page, who is made of awesome.