A new battle in Luke's second season is a life or death, as he defends his city to save it from the heroin of the city that will destroy everything, especially since he has a great reputation. Where Luke tries to highlight his abilities on the back of the earth shows someone from his past may happen something new.
Andy Goddard, Marc Jobst, Clark Johnson, Stephen Surjik, Neema Barnette, Alex Garcia Lopez, Everardo Gout, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Steph Green, Kasi Lemmons, Lucy Liu, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Millicent Shelton
The visual style and kinetic, music-driven fight scenes from season one return, and while there may be a few more scraps than the show necessarily needs, the writers make sure to bring some creativity to Luke's predicaments.
Perhaps the worst offender yet of the Netflix/Marvel drama approach of filling up a 13-episode bag with only three or four episodes' worth of story at best.
While season 2 is far from perfect, it not only avoids the sophomore slump, it surpasses season 1 through a relentless focus on how both its heroes and villains are defined by their families.
Luke Cage might be bulletproof, but the character's eponymous Netflix series looks weaker in Season 2 -- not bad, overall, but still experiencing the equivalent of a sophomore slump.
As it is, though, season two is an improvement on the first, delivering enough powerful set pieces and rich character development to satisfy the fans across its 13 episodes.
There's just too much stuff to really do justice to any of it, and that lack of focus makes it tough to latch on to anything the season is trying to do.
