Luke Cage

have a music thing tonight but might could squeeze in an episode. will definitely watch tomorrow.

Hoping its way better than Jessica Jones or the last season of Daredevil. By the previews it looks like it should be.

I'm probably going to start this when I get home tonight.

If you guys look in What's Playing, I posted a playlist of all the Gang Starr songs the episodes draw their titles from. It's a pretty killer mix and a great way to get pumped for this.

I'm three episodes in (taking these in slower than the two seasons of Daredevil or Jessica Jones, which I finished within the weekend of premiere), and it's definitely slower paced and more character development driven, so far. I LOVE the music, I loved Mike Collar in "Jessica Jones" and he seems to be perfectly cast as this character, and the dialogue I think is particularly strong. Simone Missick should be a breakout star from this, Misty Knight is one of the more underrated characters in Marvel Comics in my opinion. Also, Mahershala Ali is outstanding as Cottonmouth... terrifying performance.

I have the next 3 and a half days off, and I'm for sure going to be done by the time I go back to work on Thursday night. Early reviews suggested this was the best of any Netflix Marvel show, yet, but I think it's going to be tough to pass Daredevil season 1.

I finished it last night.  Such a great show.  Loved everything about it, but the soundtrack and musical appearance have been stellar! 

I am on episode 12 tomorrow. It is way more gritty and gruesome than Daredevil and Jessica Jones IMO. I love it. Hooked. So good.

Wasn't able to binge this thing because of a crazy weekend. Was able to knock out two episodes, and the beginning of episode three. I've loved everything so far. Music is phenomenal. Especially the the theme. Can't wait to finish it.

Finished it this afternoon... it's really damned good. I think it's the best written of any of the Marvel Netflix shows so far, with some of the most interesting characters. LOVED Misty Knight, loved Luke, I was kind of bothered with how Night Nurse was handled in this series, but she's still great. It maintained a great quality throughout. However, I wasn't totally invested or riveted with the main story thread, necessarily, as I was with either Daredevil season. Really can't wait for the next run of shows, though. Ranked, I'd say I thought this was the second best season of these Marvel Netflix shows, behind Daredevil season 1, and followed by Daredevil season 2.

Yep, definitely great. Definitely recommended to those not even with any interest in comics.


And, I guess this could be considered a spoiler of sorts, but !

Nah you'll be fine watching Luke first if you want.

following up from the above. To be clear, I did really enjoy Luke Cage, and watched it pretty quickly. Having said that, I have an opinion I don't see stated often, which is that all of the Netflix Marvel shows start out with a solid idea and the earlier episodes are great fun, but towards the end of the season things seem to fall apart, and become either slightly frustrating or less entertaining or both.

I think Luke Cage was the least offensive in this regard, but it still wasn't completely sin free. Diamondback was a ridiculous antagonist in my opinion. The guy is so psychotic it's amazing he can dress himself in the morning, much less run a hugely successful cutting edge weapons trading and manufacturing empire.

Daredevil is the next least offensive, but good lord I actually got tired of watching Daredevil beat people up, not to mention his endless homilies on not killing people. Get over yourself.

Jessica Jones is far and away the worst offender, with her and her blonde friend whose name escapes me making the worst possible decisions for no other reason other than to create some dumb plot conflict. Kilgrave was far and away my favorite character on the show.

But again, Luke Cage is the best of all the Marvel shows, but I'm thinking The Punisher might be the best yet.

Early reviews saying the new season is really bad. Bummer.

I know this isn't really the thread, but I just found out that there are Marvel shows on Hulu. Runaways and I have seen ads for Cloak and Dagger. Are they worth watching? I thought the Runaways had a couple of good story lines when I was reading. Don't know much if anything about Cloak & Dagger. Would love to see Marvel give Moon Knight the Netflix treatment.

Runaways is pretty good but if you love the comics I've heard some complaints. Basically, they don't actually "run away" until very late and there's a lot more focus and back story on the parents as well as the kids. I enjoyed it, though. Not the best show out there. I think I ended up liking The Gifted more (on fox / Hulu). Good amount of X-Men references in that one.


I only watched the first episode of cloak and dagger so far. Pretty good intro but we'll see if I like it as more come out