Another day, another Marvel Netflix series which gets sidetracked in its second half. Luke Cage takes its titular character from 2015's excellent Jessica Jones and relocates him in Harlem, wandering amidst gang warfare and questions about black history and the African-American legacy. Like all of Netflix's comic book offerings, it positions itself as a more thoughtful take on the universe, and for a while, it succeeds.
If only it actually maintained that.
