Though we have yet to set eyes onCaptain America: Civil War, the third installment in theCaptain America franchise after the insanely successfulCaptain America: The Winter Soldier, Marvel on television has been proving more substantially thrilling and dramatically alluring than even the best of the MCU -Guardians of the Galaxy,Ant-Man, andIron Man 3lead the pack.
The second season ofDaredevilon Netflix, to say nothing ofJessica Jones, may be the comic line’s most audacious and compelling adaptation to date, and ABC’sAgent Carterhas found a stylish, fun, and humorous pulse of life that many of the movies have failed to locate.
We’ve still gotLuke CageandIron Fiston Netflix to look forward to over the next to years, leading up to the second season ofJessica JonesandThe Defenders, and now,according to Variety, Freeform is getting into the Marvel game with a straight-to-series order forCloak and Dagger, one of the lesser-known yet hugely promising properties to grace the pages of Marvel.
For those not familiar, the series follows interracial super-power couple Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, teenagers who wake up one day to find that they have been gifted and cursed with super powers - she throws light beams that can knock people out, and he can engulf people in total darkness.
These powers come in might handy in several occasions while they face off with several other superheroes and villains, but the story is primarily one about their budding romance and how these new powers affect their caring for one another.
What one might expect the showrunners will build around is the fact that the couple is interracial and must also weather, well, humans, with all their moronic bigotry and racism.
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That being said, almost nothing is known about what kind of tone the series will take, as neither a writer, showrunner, or actor has been announced thus far.
If done with a sharp thematic backbone and some stylish direction, though,Cloak and Daggermight fit right in with Netflix’s series as well as ABC’s lighter but by no means disposable line-up of Marvel properties.
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