Only on one show could you combine hauntings, confessions, domestic violence, dead bodies in freezers and pancakes. It's Cloak & Dagger time, and it's getting spooky!
"Ghost Stories" is centered around the eighth anniversary of the night that both Billy and Nathan Bowen's deaths, and plays off a lot of New Orleans mystique. To start off with, we've got Tyrone, who's finally using his Cloak powers to full effectiveness. He's continuing to pursue Connors, and has some help from Detective O'Reilly, who is getting closer with Fuchs, a fellow cop. O'Reilly can clearly see that Connors is struggling with Billy's death, and Tyrone uses that to his advantage, deciding to try to get a confession out of him, Tell-Tale Heart style. This is perhaps the coolest the character has looked, and it's genuinely terrifying. You can't convince me that you wouldn't confess to anything as a teenager in a cloak fades in and out of existence. In the end, of course, Connors does confess to Billy's murder and is arrested for it, but there's no way we're getting a happy ending. Fuchs is killed and stuffed in his own freezer, and now it's O'Reilly who's left terrified. This is perhaps the most I've enjoyed Tyrone thus far. His character has a very clear, very just motivation, that cloak looks cool and his overall dialogue has improved greatly. Thumbs up.
As the first season of this show has progressed, I've definitely realized that Tandy is clearly the weak link. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy her plot this week, but Tyrone is far more interesting as a character. After proving she's a thief by stealing Adina Johnson's ID card, Dagger has infiltrated Roxxon and has another encounter with Peter Scarborough. It's here that it starts to become hard to have empathy for Tandy; sure, Roxxon is obviously guilty of plenty of crimes, but clearly, her father was not a perfect man. I rolled my eyes at her "keeping her father's good name alive", but I might've been intended to feel that way. In a flashback, we see Nathan strike his wife, probably the beginning of an indication that he was far from a good man. As a result, Tandy turns the memo he wrote over to Scarborough in exchange for a bribe, but she doesn't seem too happy about it. Look, maybe it's just my cynicism, but I can't understand why Tandy would be so insistent about her father being the good guy. She was only a child why he died, so she really shouldn't assume she ever knew the full extent of what he was actually doing. Overall, Tandy is a hard character to take seriously as a hero. She's a theif who turned to a life of crime to support herself, and seems hell bent on continuing down that road. Capturing and threatening Scarborough, even though he's far from clean, just came off the wrong way to me. Maybe it's true to her character, but this is still someone we're supposed to be rooting for, and that kinda brought down the episode for me.
8/10
"Ghost Stories" is another strong edition of a good debut season for Cloak & Dagger. This is a character based show, and they same to nail almost every character beat. With two episodes left, I'm highly engaged in the future of this show, and I'd be very happy for it to continue. Let's keep this momentum rolling into the finale.
"Ghost Stories" is centered around the eighth anniversary of the night that both Billy and Nathan Bowen's deaths, and plays off a lot of New Orleans mystique. To start off with, we've got Tyrone, who's finally using his Cloak powers to full effectiveness. He's continuing to pursue Connors, and has some help from Detective O'Reilly, who is getting closer with Fuchs, a fellow cop. O'Reilly can clearly see that Connors is struggling with Billy's death, and Tyrone uses that to his advantage, deciding to try to get a confession out of him, Tell-Tale Heart style. This is perhaps the coolest the character has looked, and it's genuinely terrifying. You can't convince me that you wouldn't confess to anything as a teenager in a cloak fades in and out of existence. In the end, of course, Connors does confess to Billy's murder and is arrested for it, but there's no way we're getting a happy ending. Fuchs is killed and stuffed in his own freezer, and now it's O'Reilly who's left terrified. This is perhaps the most I've enjoyed Tyrone thus far. His character has a very clear, very just motivation, that cloak looks cool and his overall dialogue has improved greatly. Thumbs up.
As the first season of this show has progressed, I've definitely realized that Tandy is clearly the weak link. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy her plot this week, but Tyrone is far more interesting as a character. After proving she's a thief by stealing Adina Johnson's ID card, Dagger has infiltrated Roxxon and has another encounter with Peter Scarborough. It's here that it starts to become hard to have empathy for Tandy; sure, Roxxon is obviously guilty of plenty of crimes, but clearly, her father was not a perfect man. I rolled my eyes at her "keeping her father's good name alive", but I might've been intended to feel that way. In a flashback, we see Nathan strike his wife, probably the beginning of an indication that he was far from a good man. As a result, Tandy turns the memo he wrote over to Scarborough in exchange for a bribe, but she doesn't seem too happy about it. Look, maybe it's just my cynicism, but I can't understand why Tandy would be so insistent about her father being the good guy. She was only a child why he died, so she really shouldn't assume she ever knew the full extent of what he was actually doing. Overall, Tandy is a hard character to take seriously as a hero. She's a theif who turned to a life of crime to support herself, and seems hell bent on continuing down that road. Capturing and threatening Scarborough, even though he's far from clean, just came off the wrong way to me. Maybe it's true to her character, but this is still someone we're supposed to be rooting for, and that kinda brought down the episode for me.
8/10
"Ghost Stories" is another strong edition of a good debut season for Cloak & Dagger. This is a character based show, and they same to nail almost every character beat. With two episodes left, I'm highly engaged in the future of this show, and I'd be very happy for it to continue. Let's keep this momentum rolling into the finale.
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