Black Lightning (2018)
High voltage action
Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Creator: Salim Akil
Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.
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Cress Williams
Jefferson Pierce / Black Lightning 
Nafessa Williams
Anissa Pierce / Thunder / Blackbird 
Christine Adams
Lynn Pierce 
Marvin Jones III
Tobias Whale 
James Remar
Peter Gambi 
Chantal Thuy
Grace Choi User Reviews (3)
I suppose that the best part of Black Lightening is that, from time to time, it throws some serious 1970s Funk at you, and that is honestly about the coolest thing that you can do with a show...or movie...or just in general. And it beats the heck out of modern music. However, more so than any of the other Super Hero shows on the CW, it suffers HEAVILY under the mark of the CW. Just when you think it's going to take a good turn, the CW teenage focused melodrama is injected into it and takes the wind out of it's sails. It would be forgivable if it happened once, but it seems to get neutered by the CW every time it takes what promises to be heading into a good direction. It could have dealt with race relations in an entertaining and dramatic manner...but then it turns into a CW manner and it turns into a melodrama. It could have dealt with death is an entertaining, gripping, and dr…
Late to the party but flipping through the book of *"It Had So Much Potential";* a body of failed files thicker than a chinese phonebook at the CW. And because it is the CW, I see this series and can't help but turn my makeshift title into an epitaph. I mean it's the CW... where else was this show going to go but into the Entertainment Murder Files?** I mean identity politics was pounding the heck out of the CW's cavities long before Hollywood began to blantantly shoving virtue signaling and race swapping into the American viewing audience's faces. The saddest part was the show actually had good writing up to the end of the third season. **Marvin Jones III** brought phenomenal menace and gravitas to playing his character Tobias Whale the series' corporate level underworld boss-villain; talent rarely seen in network television. **Cress Williams** was good casting as the lead…
I don't know who wrote this but I'm betting it was a white person that did because I'm seeing stereotype after stereotype after stereotype... like it was intended this was done on purpose Terrible series ,I'm ashamed to call black lightning a black superhero
