The Official Netflix Marvel's "Luke Cage" Season 1 Thread

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But what’s most distinctive about the series is the way it puts race — and specifically pride in Harlem, where the show takes place — at the center of the story.

This approach has a couple of effects, beyond the unusual (for the superhero genre) and welcome element of diversity. The selling of Harlem as a literary-artistic wonderland is distracting in what’s basically a straightforward, middling-quality comic-book adaptation about a reluctant hero taking on gangsters and crooked politicians.

And it often feels like the cultural lessons are getting in the way of the genre fun.

the show from which it was semispun off, it looks decidedly average. Mr. Colter was better served there, playing a stoic Cage in a supporting role — here he doesn’t seem comfortable carrying the show. And “Jones” pulled off the trick of being both a compelling narrative and a smart, frightening commentary (in that case, on predatory male behavior). “Cage” tries to do a similar thing with racial politics but gets lost in platitudes. Its messages don’t get under your skin.

-The New York Times

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Luke gave Misty that work, kept thinking bout the sex the whole time, then showing a little jealousy about the interaction between Luke and Claire.
Other than the cofee exchange where she let Claire know she's been there first (in the cellar) there really wasn't any scene where misty was jealous and that passed me off. I know feminist will say men do it too but sleeping with Luke 5 mins after they met then nothing after words made her look skeezy
 

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Hope Diamondback kills Mariah next season :francis:

But Ridley is right that Candace could've been saved if Mariah did things differently
 

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Other than the cofee exchange where she let Claire know she's been there first (in the cellar) there really wasn't any scene where misty was jealous and that passed me off. I know feminist will say men do it too but sleeping with Luke 5 mins after they met then nothing after words made her look skeezy

They're both grown adults, she knew what time it was... :comeon:
 

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But what’s most distinctive about the series is the way it puts race — and specifically pride in Harlem, where the show takes place — at the center of the story.

This approach has a couple of effects, beyond the unusual (for the superhero genre) and welcome element of diversity. The selling of Harlem as a literary-artistic wonderland is distracting in what’s basically a straightforward, middling-quality comic-book adaptation about a reluctant hero taking on gangsters and crooked politicians.

And it often feels like the cultural lessons are getting in the way of the genre fun.

the show from which it was semispun off, it looks decidedly average. Mr. Colter was better served there, playing a stoic Cage in a supporting role — here he doesn’t seem comfortable carrying the show. And “Jones” pulled off the trick of being both a compelling narrative and a smart, frightening commentary (in that case, on predatory male behavior). “Cage” tries to do a similar thing with racial politics but gets lost in platitudes. Its messages don’t get under your skin.

-The New York Times

:stopitslime::francis::usure::dwillhuh::what::why::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls:
The selling of Harlem as a literary-artistic wonderland????! So The Harlem Renaissance never happened?:mindblown:Sooo Langston Hughes doesn't exist now??!:wtf:Ayyooo fukk WHITE PEOPLE
 
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