[Cloak and Dagger] 1.04 "Call/Response"
Aug. 4th, 2018 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hermionesviolinDid anyone watch this show? (Marvel's summer Freeform series)
I didn't manage to catch any of it while it was initially airing (the first ten-episode season concluded on Thursday), but I'm marathoning it today and am (per Subject line) through episode 4.
The "check your privilege" scene in this episode reminded me of some of the racial commentary in Black Lightning. This show definitely goes much less all-in on that than Black Lightning since one of our co-leads is a white woman and our narrative time is split between each of the co-lead's lives, but it definitely exists throughout -- and having Tyrone come from a wealthy family enables it to do some of the same stuff as Black Lightning about how your class/respectability privilege will not necessarily save you. It would maybe have been kind of nice if the good cop were a woman of color rather than a white woman, so that she could bridge to both of their experiences rather than only having actual shared experience with Tandy. (Okay, Tryone does get to access voodoo, which is clearly rooted in NOLA's African diaspora history -- and auntie makes a Cloak doll, but no white girl dagger doll. But at the end of this episode he goes to Detective O'Reilly, and given that our other Good Guys have been white men -- and don't get me wrong, I appreciates Liam and Greg as examples of relatively non-toxic white masculinity -- I would hope that not *all* of our ally figures are white folks. IDK if the priest will get more of a role -- I think he's supposed to be Hispanic? Though I'd also like if not all our supporting characters, outside of literal family, were dudes. Though yes, there is Evita. And the Red Hawks of the 9th Ward.)
I didn't manage to catch any of it while it was initially airing (the first ten-episode season concluded on Thursday), but I'm marathoning it today and am (per Subject line) through episode 4.
The "check your privilege" scene in this episode reminded me of some of the racial commentary in Black Lightning. This show definitely goes much less all-in on that than Black Lightning since one of our co-leads is a white woman and our narrative time is split between each of the co-lead's lives, but it definitely exists throughout -- and having Tyrone come from a wealthy family enables it to do some of the same stuff as Black Lightning about how your class/respectability privilege will not necessarily save you. It would maybe have been kind of nice if the good cop were a woman of color rather than a white woman, so that she could bridge to both of their experiences rather than only having actual shared experience with Tandy. (Okay, Tryone does get to access voodoo, which is clearly rooted in NOLA's African diaspora history -- and auntie makes a Cloak doll, but no white girl dagger doll. But at the end of this episode he goes to Detective O'Reilly, and given that our other Good Guys have been white men -- and don't get me wrong, I appreciates Liam and Greg as examples of relatively non-toxic white masculinity -- I would hope that not *all* of our ally figures are white folks. IDK if the priest will get more of a role -- I think he's supposed to be Hispanic? Though I'd also like if not all our supporting characters, outside of literal family, were dudes. Though yes, there is Evita. And the Red Hawks of the 9th Ward.)