Black Lightning - Season 1, Episode 03: Lawanda: The Book of Burial
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This series sees the retired Black Lightning return to the hero life after a decade hanging up his costume and devoting himself to the life of an educator, as well as its effects on his family life.
Let's hope, with all the intrigue intermittently gestured during this episode, the show delivers next week with the same style and execution of its first two.
Another week, another astounding Black Lightning episode. By my count this show is three for three so far, and this time it even showed a wider emotional spectrum.
Lady Eve is a queen deftly organizing the rest of the chessboard in a formation to win the game, and she's doing it while running circles around Black Lightning. And he doesn't even know it.
The exploration of another one of the communities Jefferson Pierce considers himself a part of highlights just how much this is a) an ensemble show and b) a show where setting really matters.
Black Lightning keeps filling its world with fascinating new characters. Exploring what it means to be a hero in a place with real-world consequences is a fresh and much-needed take on The CW superhero landscape.
We're barely into the infancy of Black Lightning and that kind of aliveness is already there and then some because what's going on in the fictional world of Freeland isn't too different than what's going on in real world.
