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Title: Marvel’s Luke Cage – Code of the Streets
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The second episode of Luke Cage works to push its title character out of the shadows and back into action. Pressured into service by a debt, Luke (Mike Colter) agrees to track down Chico (Brian ‘Sene’ Marc) for Pop (Frankie Faison) who hopes he can trade on his longtime friendship with Cottonmouth (Mahershala Ali) to save the young punk’s life. What neither Luke nor Pop take into account, however, is the gangster’s trigger-happy lieutenant who decides to shoot up the entire barbershop once he learns where Chico is hiding. While Cottonmouth gets some swift justice for Pop’s murder, the attack is exactly what’s needed to push Luke out of hiding and take action.

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Marvel’s Luke Cage – Moment of Truth

Alan Rapp / October 1, 2016 / Television Reviews

Title: Marvel’s Luke Cage – Moment of Truth
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“Moment of Truth” is a problematic first episode which doesn’t completely sell me on Marvel’s latest television series. For a series supposedly centered around its title character, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) himself is mostly sleepwalking through the series premiere of the new Netflix series. Even what we do see of the character, introduced previously as a recurring character in Jessica Jones, such as his low-key life as a dishwasher and barbershop janitor will be thrown completely out the window by the end of the first episode when the corruption and violence around him will finally force Luke to take a stand. Instead we get teases about the character’s unexplored past while most of “Moment of Truth” works on world building and setting up the various characters of Harlem. While its possible some of this work may eventually pay off down the line over the series’ 13 episodes, we’re not given much to suggest that its probable that will be the case.

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