Powerful tone and message
Right off the bat, the first episode of Luke Cage lays out everything that makes it unique. There’s the casual talk in Pop’s Barbershop matched with serious ideas about sons raised by guns instead of fathers. Frankie Faison is a great foil for Colter as former gangster-turned-community pillar Henry “Pop” Hunter, his deep voice and lined face adding as much context to the show as the excellent Paul McGuigan directing, who was inspired by many famous Harlem photographers.
At the start, Woodard is tangential to the proceedings but her character also helps to establish the series backdrop, as a politician campaigning for city council on rhetoric like “Keep Harlem Black,” a “New Harlem Renaissance” and of course name-dropping #BlackLivesMatter.
What Cheo Hodari Coker loses in terms of plot holes, he often makes up for with the consistent attitude and tone of the piece, so that even at its most ridiculous and half-baked, you can go with it.
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