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Marvel's Luke Cage - Netflix Original Series

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Full series released Friday in the UK and US, some good buzz coming off the early reviews, many saying it's less of a superhero show and more grounded (so possibly similar in tone to Jessica Jones, which would make sense). Obviously going to be some topical undertones given the current climate in the US, but each Defenders show has approached topics like this in clever ways.

The soundtrack sounds killer too :cool:



The ending :D
 
Looks like this is set before Jessica Jones, but then again the appearance of Rosario Dawson suggests otherwise :hmm:
 
I've been waiting on this. I don't have much background on Cage- his major plotlines, his relation to others in the marvelverse etc. But I like the idea that his power is just unbreakable skin andother than that he's just a bit hench and able to wreck mans
 
I'm hoping fore daredevil levels of violence. The films are good but nobody ever gets proper mashed up, whereas daredevil had excellent levels of violence
 
Watched the first one last night - didn't really grab me - I'll give this a couple more episodes watched before making my mind up - I liked Cage in JJ though
 
I had to make two attempts at Jessica Jones. I wasn't sure about it really. I did end up enjoying it, despite it being a few eps too long. I felt Daredevil lost its way a bit too and again a few eps too long which just stretched out plots which could have been tied up sooner.

I like the TV MarvelUniverse more than the movies, there is room for more in depth characters and social commentary.

I'm looking forward to Luke Cage. Reviews have been very positive. A kick ass black dude fighting for social justice in harlem is what we need right now!!!
 
5 episode binge last night. Is good. Tonally very different to JJ and Daredevil. Some great fights. I'll watch ep 6 tonight and make up my mind wether I rate it highly or simply enjoy it
 
Just finished episode 4, best so far. Plotting and writing are a bit patchy in places eg...

Why all the fuss about Cottonmouth getting the stolen money back to give to his cousin when he had several million more in cash lying around?

Fun fact: the show's writer Cheo Hodari Coker also wrote the movie 'Notorious' about Biggie Smalls, whose portrait appears in Cottonmouth's office.
 
I like the 70s vibe, Netflix do the super hero stuff rather well. I'm hoping Amazon get their funk on.
 
I'm enjoying the music inclusions :). Raphael Siddique, ?Faith Evans, Charles Bradley and some others who I didn't recognise. Shows not bad either :D
 
I binge-watched seven episodes the day on Friday while drinking wine and probably shouldn't have. But it is good. It could have tipped over into overwhelming cliché at several points, to the blaxploitation side or to the gangster crime drama side, but it manages not to, partly because of some really good performances. Like good crime dramas it's mostly about the characters, if you're after an action series it's not that, though there are some significant action scenes. It's also got a good consistent visual style and some really nice music.

One criticism I've seen levelled at it though, which I think it true, is that broader political relevance is toned down.

A key point in the motivations of several characters is economic/racist colonisation of areas of Harlem, but the agents of that are never addressed, at least not by the point that I've watched to. Cage comes up against brutal white authority figures in jail but they're not even explicitly racist, and the cops might be sometimes corrupt but they're definitely not on the basis of race, no sir. The idea of a bulletproof black man has less punch when he never has to deal with anyone who cares whether he's black or not.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
One criticism I've seen levelled at it though, which I think it true, is that broader political relevance is toned down.

A key point in the motivations of several characters is economic/racist colonisation of areas of Harlem, but the agents of that are never addressed, at least not by the point that I've watched to. Cage comes up against brutal white authority figures in jail but they're not even explicitly racist, and the cops might be sometimes corrupt but they're definitely not on the basis of race, no sir. The idea of a bulletproof black man has less punch when he never has to deal with anyone who cares whether he's black or not.
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I can kind of appreciate this point, but I also think it's interesting to have a show with a black cast and a black head writer dealing explicitly with black American identity but where racism is not the primary antagonistic force. Racism is present as a theme in the show though, even it's not signposted by the writing in the way we've come to expect from TV shows.

The 'lemonade' scene where Misty is telling the story of her friend who was gang raped and murdered but the police didn't care about it, that for me was a clear reference to racism without anyone needing to say 'the police didn't care about her because she was black'. There is stuff like that throughout the show.
 
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