Marvel wasn’t kidding when it said that “Mayhem is coming.
That more murderous Brigid?
MeetCloak and Dagger’s version of the iconic comic book antihero Mayhem.
The two Brigids finally came face-to-face with Tandy and Tyrone looking on completely speechless.
“They’re shocked.
They’re confused,” Holt tells Collider.
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“I don’t think it makes any sense to them.
And according to Holt, “in the beginning, they’re not about it.”
Tandy likes that about her.
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We’ll see that journey and how that relationship unfolds through the season.”
“It might be a little more complicated than that,” she says.
But then, there’s this other one who has it all there.
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And is way more intensified than the other.
So it’s a little more complicated than one is good and one is evil.
But she did reveal that Brigid will be struggling with themes of vigilantism for that reason.
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“But she still likes to try and do things the right way as per the book.
It poses that question, talking about vigilante action.”
“We’ll see hints of things that are in the comics,” Holt teases.
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And oh yeah, those human traffickers that Mayhem killed?
“Human trafficking, because why not?”
executive producerJoe Pokaskijokes before getting serious.
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When we turned toward Season 2, we wanted to do that without being repetitive.”
He said the worst slavery is right along the highway about 10 miles that way."
So truck stops and things like that are actually built to oppress."
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“By the second episode, they’re pretty knee deep in it,” he says.
“It’s super serious and Tandy and Tyrone want to do something about it.
And Joseph hopes the show inspires conversations about this unfortunately prevalent issue in young fans watchingCloak and Dagger.
In our show, we talked about how corrupt the police department can be.
In fact, Joseph loves how Tyrone is still relatable for viewers watching.
“He feels like he has this power that sets him apart,” Joseph says.
“Even though he has so much power he’s still black at the end of the day.
Cloak and Daggerairs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on Freeform.