"Always Forward" - Official Marvel's "Luke Cage" Season 2 Thread

[Primetime]

What Doesn't Work

It's become readily apparent that a lot of these Marvel Netflix series have too much space to fill in 13-episode seasons, and Luke Cage Season Two, despite its improvements, can't avoid this hurdle completely.

Jessica Jones Season Two had a nice spread of key characters whose respective storylines intertwined nicely with the heroine's journey; unfortunately, Luke Cage's storyline doesn't have as much polish. A lot of the secondary characters (especially the female ones) get pinwheel arcs, spinning in circles without ultimately going very far. The worst of these is no doubt Misty Knight (Simone Messick), who gets a promising start, but stalls in her (literally) half-cooked story arc. Thankfully, the showrunners always remember that the primary focus is the trio of Luke, Mariah, and Bushmaster, and use that core as the primary throughline. Certain obligations to the comics make for some clunky character developments at season's end; however, scene for scene, the cast plays off one another well. The one exception is Rossi's Shades, whose presence in Season Two seems the most consistently awkward and hard to buy, in terms of his interactions with the other characters. There are also an overabundance of new faces and names, that can definitely confuse and distract early on, when viewers are trying to get re-acquainted with these characters and their world.

Luke Cage Season Two deserves a lot of acclaim, and will keep most fans happy from start to finish. Season Two will premiere in full on Netflix starting on June 22nd.

That stinks but was expected. The second they curved her in favor of Claire as the love interest halfway through s1, it was obvious Misty was gon have nothing to do moving forward. It's Luke's show and she gave up the draws in ep 1, so at that point either she was gon be the love interest, part of some love triangle ish, or she was gon be 5th string behind the main character (Luke), actual love interest (Claire), and main villains 1 and 2 as far as time and development.

With that said, the rest of the review suggests that they did a great job with season 2 in just about every other department
Even heard they stepped up the fight scenes a great deal from s1 too

 

[PlaidShirtHipsterBoy]

First day binge watch. I hope the music this season is as excellent as it was last season. Thats the best part to me.

 

[paidNfull]

Can't wait

 

[Ironman]

Can't wait

She is in it

 

[nieman]

Something really bothers me about Luke Cage. In the first season the people who were against gentrification were the villains, while Cage was protecting "everyone" from them. Here, Alfre Woodard is playing a woman who uses the same talking points as people who are interested in empowering black residents to revitalize and restore Harlem to it's former glory before gentrification. But apparently she's going to be this season's main antagonist. It just doesn't sit right with me the way this show draws upon real issues and perspectives voiced by Harlem residents and turn them into caricature villain motivations. And it's all legitimate and non-controversial because the hero fighting them is black. Anyone else bothered by this?

The argument/divide isn't the goal, but the means to get there. Even in reality, the "alleged" criminals with the same goal aren't as revered by some, as the upstanding citizens with the same goal. Without her past/present activity, he'd be a supporter of her.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

The argument/divide isn't the goal, but the means to get there. Even in reality, the "alleged" criminals with the same goal aren't as revered by some, as the upstanding citizens with the same goal. Without her past/present activity, he'd be a supporter of her.

Bingo


Martha

 

[23Barrettcity]

Something really bothers me about Luke Cage. In the first season the people who were against gentrification were the villains, while Cage was protecting "everyone" from them. Here, Alfre Woodard is playing a woman who uses the same talking points as people who are interested in empowering black residents to revitalize and restore Harlem to it's former glory before gentrification. But apparently she's going to be this season's main antagonist. It just doesn't sit right with me the way this show draws upon real issues and perspectives voiced by Harlem residents and turn them into caricature villain motivations. And it's all legitimate and non-controversial because the hero fighting them is black. Anyone else bothered by this?

It’s the criminal aspects that Luke has an issue with though

 

[NobodyReally]

The argument/divide isn't the goal, but the means to get there. Even in reality, the "alleged" criminals with the same goal aren't as revered by some, as the upstanding citizens with the same goal. Without her past/present activity, he'd be a supporter of her.

It’s the criminal aspects that Luke has an issue with though

Yeah I get that, but there's levels to this. I'm talking about the creative decision of the writers of this show. They purposefully chose real world issues that matter to black people and more specifically the residents of Harlem to use as the platform for the villain. It's suspect as hell
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[loyola llothta]

Something really bothers me about Luke Cage. In the first season the people who were against gentrification were the villains, while Cage was protecting "everyone" from them. Here, Alfre Woodard is playing a woman who uses the same talking points as people who are interested in empowering black residents to revitalize and restore Harlem to it's former glory before gentrification. But apparently she's going to be this season's main antagonist. It just doesn't sit right with me the way this show draws upon real issues and perspectives voiced by Harlem residents and turn them into caricature villain motivations. And it's all legitimate and non-controversial because the hero fighting them is black. Anyone else bothered by this?

i saw the same thing in black panther

 

[Luke Cage]

Luke Cage coming on friday. Don't really see any hype right now.
They should've saved these characters for the movies. hopefully this season is fire and they don't double down on the cornyness of the second half of the first season. Also step up the action. So far only daredevil and the punisher are satisfying in that aspect.

 

[Zero]

Luke Cage coming on friday. Don't really see any hype right now.
They should've saved these characters for the movies. hopefully this season is fire and they don't double down on the cornyness of the second half of the first season. Also step up the action. So far only daredevil and the punisher are satisfying in that aspect.

I'll watch but I think these Netflix shows have run their course

 

[Luke Cage]

I'll watch but I think these Netflix shows have run their course

It's sad because i think they sabotaged themselves with the budget. Most of their problems are related to that.
It's crazy because i just saw lost in space on netflix and it looks like they threw the bag at that series.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

I'm ready for this - a few of the reviews claim that they found a way to fix the mid season sag - I want to see what that looks like.

 

[AMcV'88]

no show fell off a cliff as bad as Luke Cage when a character exited the show.
even garbage ass IronFist had the dynamic between the father/son that was at least somewhat watchable.

i didn't see Bloodshed's memorial piece at all during season one..shyt, did they even show L's ?

"I say that to say this, at the end of the day Luke Cage really not from Harlem anyway b"

 

[paidNfull]

Man I'm so ready for this and no them shows haven't ran it's course...what u want people to do jump and joy ...it's not like people can go to theaters and see them...going going binge them and duck off