You know things are getting serious when the Princeton offense is in the title, and even more serious when a basketball invades a party. Seriously, you guys didn't have a beachball to toss around while chanting for CM Punk? F***ing amateurs.
Let's start with Tyrone, who still kinds feels like he's off in B-plot land. After a conversation with Detective O'Reilly, Tyrone focuses his attention on the state championship game, with his story taking a bit of a lighter tone. Of course, he also ends up discovering that one of Billy's old friends is partners in the drug trade with Detective Connors, because this show is bleak. He's also progressing his relationship with Evita, and I'll give them a less than zero percent chance of surviving the next few episodes. After noticing some racial/social injustice during the game, Tyrone throws the game, almost literally, showing that he does have a sense of honor. His powers also run haywire throughout, causing all kinds of havoc, which is about as much as the show is willing to do for now. There's still not a lot of material for Aubrey Joseph to dig into, but I liked the small characters beats strewn throughout this episode.
Tandy, meanwhile, infiltrates a Roxxon party, and the show decides to have a little fun with her powers. After playing a little detective, she seems to have figured the man at the center of the corporation, Peter Scarborough. She pretends to break down her car in front of his house, reading his hopes to discover that he's one sick bastard, as she watches him murder and pillage corpses. This whole story can be a little hard to swallow, as Tandy is shown to be capable far beyond or years or what she realistically should. Just last episode, she needed help from Greg(whose murder isn't mentioned at all, by the way) to point her in the right direction, and now she's easily getting into high level parties and using her powers without a care in the world. Some consistency would appreciated, especially where we're dealing with powered beings.
Hey, Detective O'Reilly gets some airtime this week! After having sex with an officer and a conversation with Tyrone, though not necessarily in that order, she begins to investigate Connors as well. She gains his trust by literally doing coke right in front of him, which is one way to get someone's attention. Overall, this character seems interesting enough, and provides an actually helpful adult figure, which is nice. Also, she has a chat with Liam, Tandy's ex-boyfriend. I thought that was worth mentioning, although it doesn't seem like the show cares about him at all.
6/10
This was a standard episode for Cloak & Dagger, nothing to impressive and plenty of filler. There were plenty of small character beats throughout the episode, which is appreciated, but doesn't make up for the lack of anything memorable. Action isn't always necessary to make a Marvel series work, but this show still has yet to find it's true identity.
Let's start with Tyrone, who still kinds feels like he's off in B-plot land. After a conversation with Detective O'Reilly, Tyrone focuses his attention on the state championship game, with his story taking a bit of a lighter tone. Of course, he also ends up discovering that one of Billy's old friends is partners in the drug trade with Detective Connors, because this show is bleak. He's also progressing his relationship with Evita, and I'll give them a less than zero percent chance of surviving the next few episodes. After noticing some racial/social injustice during the game, Tyrone throws the game, almost literally, showing that he does have a sense of honor. His powers also run haywire throughout, causing all kinds of havoc, which is about as much as the show is willing to do for now. There's still not a lot of material for Aubrey Joseph to dig into, but I liked the small characters beats strewn throughout this episode.
Tandy, meanwhile, infiltrates a Roxxon party, and the show decides to have a little fun with her powers. After playing a little detective, she seems to have figured the man at the center of the corporation, Peter Scarborough. She pretends to break down her car in front of his house, reading his hopes to discover that he's one sick bastard, as she watches him murder and pillage corpses. This whole story can be a little hard to swallow, as Tandy is shown to be capable far beyond or years or what she realistically should. Just last episode, she needed help from Greg(whose murder isn't mentioned at all, by the way) to point her in the right direction, and now she's easily getting into high level parties and using her powers without a care in the world. Some consistency would appreciated, especially where we're dealing with powered beings.
Hey, Detective O'Reilly gets some airtime this week! After having sex with an officer and a conversation with Tyrone, though not necessarily in that order, she begins to investigate Connors as well. She gains his trust by literally doing coke right in front of him, which is one way to get someone's attention. Overall, this character seems interesting enough, and provides an actually helpful adult figure, which is nice. Also, she has a chat with Liam, Tandy's ex-boyfriend. I thought that was worth mentioning, although it doesn't seem like the show cares about him at all.
6/10
This was a standard episode for Cloak & Dagger, nothing to impressive and plenty of filler. There were plenty of small character beats throughout the episode, which is appreciated, but doesn't make up for the lack of anything memorable. Action isn't always necessary to make a Marvel series work, but this show still has yet to find it's true identity.
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