US: Black Lightning

Haze · 17 Jan 2018 at 16:58

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6045840/

Jefferson Pierce has made his choice. He hung up the suit and his secret identity years ago, but with a daughter hell-bent on justice and a star student being recruited by a local gang, he'll be pulled back into the fight as the wanted vigilante and DC legend: Black Lightning.

Given it a watch, not massively convinced, will give it another EP to be sure

malachi · 19 Jan 2018 at 09:35

I enjoyed the first episode. Thought it was quite good.

darkwildchild79 · 19 Jan 2018 at 16:50

yeah saw it myself also and i am wondering what timeline this one is ... would it interconnect with the black panther or would that be a whole different path. So far the acting is a bit budget, which i thought was cheap... but at the end it showing that someone in his family has an ability also, so i wonder what would that character be portrayed in the episodes to comes... so i will hold my rating for now...

something daft already!! · 19 Jan 2018 at 16:56

Any TV programme with a large number of votes on the IMDB which is less than 8 is not worth the bother in my experience.

Scrutinize · 27 Jan 2018 at 11:22

I watched this and really enjoyed it.

As a first episode effort and especially compared to the usual Marvel / DC series slow starts or never really popping at all, this definitely started strong.

Likable main characters with enough implied back story and villains you want to see bite the dust from the off is good going.

Bear · 27 Jan 2018 at 12:56

Utter crap and ranks along side Ironfist on the turd scale. Hated everything about it.

ChroniC · 27 Jan 2018 at 13:31

I thought it was good when he was being teacher. The second they got the cheese suit on it was stronger than a stinky Stilton.

Seriously who wouldn't notice the guy in the giant power rangers suit standing on a roof top in bright street lights. Lol

R3X · 27 Jan 2018 at 15:58

This is sounding like perhaps the worst dc/marvel tv series to come out in a long time.....

Maybe its good if it stays separate from the arrow-verse universe !

VincentHanna · 28 Jan 2018 at 19:31

It's DC.

Glanza · 28 Jan 2018 at 20:14

Are DC actually involved with this?

From the trailer it looks like it's another CW show but stays out of the arrowverse.

Glanza · 29 Jan 2018 at 08:50

Due to it only being 40 mins I gave the first episode a watch and I'm not sure what it's trying to be, upto the point of the suit going on it came across as urban,gritty etc then suddenly changed it's tone.

Haze · 29 Jan 2018 at 09:13

Due to it only being 40mins.. . Like all TV shows lol

Glanza · 29 Jan 2018 at 09:54

Most of the things I watch on Netflix are closer to the hour mark. It was good that they don't have a 2 minute intro unlike some shows that pad runtime.

ChroniC · 30 May 2018 at 20:32

I tried to stick with this I have watched the first 12 episodes, but things are getting worse and worse. Gambi is the worst actor ever, he virtually calls it in from home.

Glanza · 31 May 2018 at 09:35

It wasn't too bad, glad they did less episodes than other CW shows as that's what usually makes them stale with silly filler.

smokedog · 31 May 2018 at 15:22

Started but never finished, it was like a blacksploitation super hero series.

R3X · 2 Jul 2018 at 13:53

It was ok but I am quite surprised they made black lighting an older guy in his mid 40s, doesn't fit remotely in the trend of CW and all Teen show at least someone in there 20s, 30s at least.

Seemed very average and everything got rushed to end with a super hero family almost, will still watch it but this show needs a lot more metas and 100% needs to be connected to the existing arrowverse, I believe it may do but they wanted to establish a show and presence first just like arrow did at the start.

Shocky-FM · 2 Jul 2018 at 14:40

No interest in this at all, I don't mind black superheros if it's done well but this just looks awful.