Saturday, October 29, 2016

Luke Cage 1.05

Just to Get a Rep

- Cottonmouth is still short on money and sends his men out to shakedown Harlem for money; Luke strikes back at Cottonmouth and his men which leads to a confrontation at the club; Cottonmouth and Shades get to see first hand that Luke Cage is bulletproof; Shades also finally recognizes him as the man he once knew as Carl Lucas in Seagate Prison
- Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson) makes her first appearance on Luke Cage; she previously encountered Cage in season 1 of Jessica Jones; Claire goes to visit Soledad (Sonia Braga), her mother, but doesn't have any encounters with Cage; based on what I'm seeing on imdb it looks like she appears in almost all of the remaining episodes of this season; based on the conversations she has with her mother it seems she has lost her job at the hospital and is edging closer to becoming Night Nurse
- Misty Knight learns that Detective Scarfe, her partner, is under investigation by Internal Affairs from Captain Audrey (Sonja Sohn); she refuses to consider that he might have done anything illegal and disputes the captain's suggestions about Scarfe
- At the funeral for Pops both Luke and Cottonmouth speak, but not in that order; the crowd seems to respond positively to Cottonmouth but Luke is the only one to get a rousing ovation
- Shades tells Cottonmouth about a weapon that could probably take down Cage but the cost is prohibitively expensive; considering Cottonmouth's cash shortage since Luke

- this is not a straight-up superhero show; I have to wonder if that is why some people don't like it although usually the complaint seems to be that these Netflix runs just a bit too long and should be 10 episodes instead of 13; either way I'm still intrigued and still interested in watching more
- it helps a great deal that they've got two great performances from the guys playing the parts of Cottonmouth (Mahershala Ali) and Shades (Theo Rossi)

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