This is NOT as bas as some reviewers have made out - it is fairly entertaining and does have some nice plot twists.
The acting is generally good albeit that, probably because of direction (see below), it is more than occasionally melodramatic in the style of a 1910 silent.
The two places that this series truly fails is in terrible direction with constant switches of camera angle and shot - sometimes quite literally every time a character speaks in a conversation we switch (not pan, switch) to a new camera and the constant 'jumping' this creates actually serves to destroy the narrative.
The second fail, whether direction or production I don't know, is in the constant, irritating and intrusive music. Sometimes the music track is so loud it is actually louder than the conversation or action that it is supposedly underlaying and not dominating! Do we need the constant, loud drone of rap music throughout every fight?
Overall a good series, it IS entertaining even if the writers have made Black Lightning into a "woe is me" wimp without the conviction of his principles or the inner strength to be the hero. Lightning and Thunder, the two daughters, are much better heroes.
Give it a chance but 'The Flash' or 'Arrow' it isn't, which is a shame.
The acting is generally good albeit that, probably because of direction (see below), it is more than occasionally melodramatic in the style of a 1910 silent.
The two places that this series truly fails is in terrible direction with constant switches of camera angle and shot - sometimes quite literally every time a character speaks in a conversation we switch (not pan, switch) to a new camera and the constant 'jumping' this creates actually serves to destroy the narrative.
The second fail, whether direction or production I don't know, is in the constant, irritating and intrusive music. Sometimes the music track is so loud it is actually louder than the conversation or action that it is supposedly underlaying and not dominating! Do we need the constant, loud drone of rap music throughout every fight?
Overall a good series, it IS entertaining even if the writers have made Black Lightning into a "woe is me" wimp without the conviction of his principles or the inner strength to be the hero. Lightning and Thunder, the two daughters, are much better heroes.
Give it a chance but 'The Flash' or 'Arrow' it isn't, which is a shame.