Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger is a maverick amongst its contemporaries. Rather than focus or relish on the surreal aspects and nuances of a superhero property, whether through a gritty and dark filter or through the vein of campy and upbeat – both bathed in elevated self-indulgence – it has the...
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Review-Cloak and Dagger, Episode 10, Colony Collapse
Episode 10: Colony Collapse Directed by: Wayne Yip Written by: Joe Pokaski As predicted in my last review, our protagonists drastically reverse emotional gears from their destructive self-loathing to become the heroes they are meant to be; albeit spurred by the...
Review-Cloak and Dagger, Episode 9, Back Breaker
Episode 9: Back Breaker Directed by: Jeff Woolnough Written by: Niceole R Levy & Peter Calloway If there were two words to summarize the feeling and tone of “Back Breaker” it would be hopelessness and futility, which are deliberate choices here. Tandy quickly...
Review-Cloak and Dagger, Episode 8, Ghost Stories
Episode 8: Ghost Stories Directed by: Alex Garcia Lopez Written by: Christine Boylan & Jenny Klein “Ghost Stories” focuses on the eight-year anniversary of the tragic Roxxon off-shore platform explosion that took Tandy’s father and Tyrone’s older brother....
Review-Cloak and Dagger, Episode 7, Lotus Eater
Episode 7: Lotus Eater Directed by: Paul Edwards Written by: Joe Pokaski & Peter Calloway This may not be the team up we have been anticipating from this series’ inception, but the fact it happens at all is satisfactory enough. And while the immediate stakes are a...
Review-Cloak and Dagger, Episode 6, Funhouse Mirrors
Episode 6: Funhouse Mirrors Directed by: Jennifer Phang Written by: J Holtham & Jenny Klein Not taking the episode’s name for granted, Tyrone and Tandy get a glimpse – through those they primarily interact with here – of how their lives may have turned out had it...
Review-Cloak and Dagger, Episode 5, Princeton Offense
Episode 5: Princeton Offense Directed by: Ry Russo-Young Written by: Niceole R Levy & Koe Pokaski Whatever microbial progress gleaned from “Princeton Offense” is drowned out by a tortuous plot that saps any enthusiasm or intrigue out of this series and its main...
Review-Cloak and Dagger, Episode 4, Call/Response
Episode 4: Call/Response Directed by: Ami Canaan Mann Written by: Christine Boylan & Marcus J. Guillory It would be easy to write off “Call/Response” as jarringly fragmented in its overall momentum, as the entire episode is split throughout between three different...
Review-Cloak and Dagger, Episode 2/ Suicide Sprints
Episode 2: Suicide Sprints Directed by: Alex Garcia Lopez Written by: Joe Pokaski Episode two transitions immediately after the revelation of Cloak and Dagger’s once dormant dark and light powers. While the pacing has not much improved over the premier episode, that...
Review-Cloak and Dagger, Episode 1/ First Light
Episode 1: First Light Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood Written by: Joe Pokaski Having been inundated with comic book-based and superhero-themed TV shows within the last decade, it is incredible that there seems to be no end to this seeming inexhaustible well of...
Nu-Perspective: Cloak
Happy June everyone! And welcome back to another edition of Nu-Perspective, the only redesign column for us, by us. We feature revamps and updates of various underdeveloped, underutilized and all-but-forgotten Nubian (black) characters specifically, and showcase them...
