Black Lightning

GenerationofSwine

2023-01-14

⭐ 1

I suppose that the best part of Black Lightening is that, from time to time, it throws some serious 1970s Funk at you, and that is honestly about the coolest thing that you can do with a show...or movie...or just in general. And it beats the heck out of modern music. However, more so than any of the other Super Hero shows on the CW, it suffers HEAVILY under the mark of the CW. Just when you think it's going to take a good turn, the CW teenage focused melodrama is injected into it and takes the wind out of it's sails. It would be forgivable if it happened once, but it seems to get neutere…

DallasBob

2026-09-18

⭐ 7

Late to the party but flipping through the book of *"It Had So Much Potential";* a body of failed files thicker than a chinese phonebook at the CW. And because it is the CW, I see this series and can't help but turn my makeshift title into an epitaph. I mean it's the CW... where else was this show going to go but into the Entertainment Murder Files?\*\* I mean identity politics was pounding the heck out of the CW's cavities long before Hollywood began to blantantly shoving virtue signaling and race swapping into the American viewing audience's faces. The saddest part was the show actu…