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Marvel's Luke Cage premieres June 22

It's a very low bar to beat the 2nd half of S1.

But the set up for s2 was abysmal.
 

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S2 dropped this week.

I am 2 eps in and expect to finish it by tomorrow probably. So far it is a bit slow. The new baddy is taking a while to establish himself. He seems interesting, though.
 

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I liked it. To me, it was about on par with season one.

Bushmaster does not really live up to the hype from the trailers, though. The actor was good, but the character just seemed to fade from relevance as the season progressed.
 

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One thing that is REALLY jumping out at me in the first couple episodes is the really bad acting by Alfie Woodard. Not sure if they were on a schedule and couldn’t get extra takes from her or if she was just mailing it in, but she is better than this.
 

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I liked it. To me, it was about on par with season one.

Bushmaster does not really live up to the hype from the trailers, though. The actor was good, but the character just seemed to fade from relevance as the season progressed.

so it's got one good half and another half that is the worst half of any marvel netflix show?
 

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One thing that is REALLY jumping out at me in the first couple episodes is the really bad acting by Alfie Woodard. Not sure if they were on a schedule and couldn’t get extra takes from her or if she was just mailing it in, but she is better than this.

I don't know. There are some scenes with extended dialogue later in the season where I think she does pretty well.

The season basically revolves around Mariah and the Stokes family.
 

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so it's got one good half and another half that is the worst half of any marvel netflix show?

I thought it was really good about 90% of the way through, but kind of died toward the end, focusing too much on setting up another season.

Bushmaster's arc was definitely disappointing. No doubt.
 

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This show doesn’t have the feel that allows for 4th wall breaks. I wish they didn’t do that...
 

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Is Theo Rossi too expensive for Freeform? He should join Cloak & Dagger for S2.
 

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I didn't find Bushmaster's arc disappointing. I get the idea people wanted him to be the big evuhl bad, but all the Netflix shows are pretty careful to keep their characters gray and not black and white (no pun intended).

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

They sorta' flip-flopped Bushmaster from being a cartoon villain into someone with legit grievances. I liked the way they set up LC Season 3 to be pretty dark from where Cage ends up too.

'Harlem needs a King.'

Power corrupts.
 

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I’m 3 eps deep so far.

It’s solid.

Wish I knew everything the Jamaicans said tho
 

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I stopped watching season 1 after Cottonmouth died, around episode 7 or 8.

I finished season 1 today before staring on season 2. After finishing the first season, I feel I was completely justified in not originally finishing out the first season. The second half of season 1 was complete garbage.

I only got 1 episode into season 2 this time around before I abandoned ship.

Netflix Marvel rankings.

-Daredevil
-Punisher
-Iron Fist
-Luke Cage
-Jessica Jones
-The defenders
 

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I actually thought the first 3 episodes were very slow and boring... in sped up and was actually pretty good.... some was painful to watch though because one episode Luke cage is helping the stokes side, the other episode he is helping the jamaican side...

the episode with iron fist i thought was the best episode...
 

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I actually thought the first 3 episodes were very slow and boring... in sped up and was actually pretty good.... some was painful to watch though because one episode Luke cage is helping the stokes side, the other episode he is helping the jamaican side...

the episode with iron fist i thought was the best episode...
I am just starting. The final episode now. So far, I actually quite liked this season. But yes, the ep with Rand was pretty awesome. It really builds their relationship, and kinda explains why Danny would go into business with Cage.
 

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One thing that is REALLY jumping out at me in the first couple episodes is the really bad acting by Alfie Woodard. Not sure if they were on a schedule and couldn’t get extra takes from her or if she was just mailing it in, but she is better than this.


I never liked her as an actress anyway... so....
 

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I stopped watching season 1 after Cottonmouth died, around episode 7 or 8.

I finished season 1 today before staring on season 2. After finishing the first season, I feel I was completely justified in not originally finishing out the first season. The second half of season 1 was complete garbage.

I only got 1 episode into season 2 this time around before I abandoned ship.

Netflix Marvel rankings.

-Daredevil
-Punisher
-Iron Fist
-Luke Cage
-Jessica Jones
-The defenders

That is the highest I have ever seen Iron Fist ranked. I always thought that one was the clear worst. My Rankings:

-Daredevil
-Punisher
-Luke Cage
-Jessica Jones
-Defenders


-Iron Fist

Without Trish Taylor Jessica Jones would move up to 3.
 

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That final episode was a complete left turn. Not sure I like what they did, but I am intrigued.

Overall, I liked the season. Better than S1, IMHO.
 

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I just finished the episode where Luke and Bush and fight on the bridge.

It was probably the best one so far.

But this season has been slow.

Luke is by far the least interesting aspect of the show at this point.
 

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so the middle of Luke Cage is actually decent. Let's see how this finishes.

I think they could've played up Bushmaster more though.

I'm also curious where he gets his stuff for his little mystical potions now that he tried to give his supplier the Joan of Arc treatment. His powers should wane now.
 

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Is Theo Rossi too expensive for Freeform? He should join Cloak & Dagger for S2.
I haven't caught any marvel shows outside of netflix and Legion. Not sure what cloak and dagger is about, but have been thinking about giving the runaways a shot.
 
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