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I Miss the Joy of Superheroes
When it comes to cynical takes on the genre, the fatigue is real. I Miss the Joy of Superheroes Liz Shannon Miller
The CW Is Launching A ‘Black Lightning’ Spinoff Show ‘Painkiller’
Source: Amy Sussman / Getty Fans of Black Lightning are in for some good news. A spinoff is in the works and it seems like it will continue the Black excellence energy. As spotted on The Grio the hit television program will extend their signature approach to drama and action to a new series on The CW. According to the article the Painkiller character will be getting his own self-titled show. The introduction is slotted for the seventh episode in the upcoming fourth season of Black Lightning. If you are concerned that it will not match its predecessor, don’t fear the team behind Black Lightning is still in play for this extension. Salim Akilis is set to write, direct, and executive produce the series. Summary for the show below: Khalil Payne (Jordan Calloway) is a young man ridden wit...
The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Swings into the ’60s: Review
The Pitch: When we last saw the super-powered, super-dysfunctional Hargreeves siblings, they had front-row seats to the end of the world — mostly because they caused it. In a last-ditch attempt to stave off the apocalypse, time-traveling Number Five (Aiden Gallagher) zaps the Umbrella Academy back to the past to stop it, only to find out he’s flung his brothers and sisters scattershot throughout different years in the early 1960s in Dallas, Texas. Each of them thinking they’re alone, they try to settle into new lives: Hulking Luther (Tom Hopper) turns to drink, despair, and bare-knuckle boxing; mind-control maven Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) gets married and embeds herself in the budding Civil Rights Movement; knife-throwing bruiser Diego (David Castañeda) is institutionalized; pansex...
