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The result is a series that, though it bears a man’s name in the title, is replete with women who aren’t just as compelling and as complicated as the men. Instead showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker and his team of writers have worked to give the women in Luke Cage thoughtful character development and emotional complexity. Misty grapples with the tension of being a black police officer when her department is prone to roughing up young Harlem natives Mariah genuinely believes in the betterment of Harlem even if the money she’s using to save it fuels violence in the neighborhood Candace is just trying to provide for her family at the expense of an innocent man’s life.įollowing in the footsteps of Jessica Jones, which was all about complex white women, Luke Cage could have easily fallen into the tropes that mirror the way progress often works in real life: granting nuance first to white men, then black men, then white women, with women of color near the bottom. There are levels of complexity not just to Misty and Mariah, but to most of the other women on the show. In a genre where women have been historically relegated to damsels and side pieces, encountering nuanced and complex female characters in a Marvel series not centered around them is quite a shift. In another scene shortly after, Misty quips about Mariah to her boss Inspector Ridley (Karen Pittman), “I was just about to compel her to make a statement, before you let your little soror skee-wee on out of here.” It’s a funny, random reference to black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha’s greetings to its members and indicative of the way the series subtly captures how black women relate to one another. It’s also the first real face-to-face between two of the show’s more intriguing characters.
It’s a striking scene, compelling in its subtext - Misty is suggesting that Mariah might have taken a shower to clean up after killing Cottonmouth while also acknowledging that most sensitive of topics, black women’s hairlines. Mariah slowly smiles, before arranging herself and rising to leave. “Other than the fact that your edges are a little damp.” “What do you have on me?” Mariah responds. They banter back and forth and then Misty goes for the kill.
In Episode 8, Misty Knight (Simone Missick), the intrepid detective put in charge of solving the murder of local gang leader Cottonmouth, goes head to head with Mariah Dillard (Alfre Woodard), a savvy councilwoman and cousin to Cottonmouth, who also happens to be his murderer.Īfter a frustrating interrogation with Candace, a witness Misty is convinced is lying (spoiler alert: She is!), Misty walks out into the lobby of the police precinct where Mariah is sitting, waiting for an interview. But tellingly, one of the show’s most memorable encounters between two opponents does not feature the title character. Luke Cage, Netflix’s third Marvel Comics series, has a lot of face-offs, as expected for a television show based on a comic.
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