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Marvel’s ‘Cloak and Dagger’: Doesn’t Matter If You’re Black Or White

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Ah, the Marvel machine is still chugging right along. Out now for your viewing entertainment on the unlikely platform of the Freeform Channel, is Marvel’s ‘Cloak and Dagger’, the story of two teenage mutants who have a destiny together.

Based on the comic book series of the same name, Cloak and Dagger have been around since their debut appearance in a Spider-Man comic, way back in 1982. Both Tandy Bowen (Dagger) and Tyrone ‘Ty’ Johnson (Cloak) are runaways in New York City, who find themselves, fighting the synthetic heroin trade and other bad guy shenanigans, after nasty experiments turned them both into super-powered beings. The pair have been guest stars in many other comic book series, such as ‘Runaways’, the “Dark Avengers” and “Uncanny X-Men” crossover ‘Utopia’, more ‘Spider-Man’ of course, they shared the double-feature series ‘Strange Tales’ with Doctor Strange for awhile, and naturally had their own featured series running several times.

While the original idea for their characters came from the comic books, the television series adaptation varies widely in their interpretation. Set in New Orleans, we meet our protagonists. Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) is a privileged young black guy who goes to a private school, has an ambitious mother and a devoted father, but he is consumed by the weight of the death of his brother during some gang-related nonsense, that happened when Tyrone was a child. Conversely, Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt) is a young white girl who runs constantly from her drugged-out mother, a thief and a liar and a con-artist still reeling from the death of her beloved father when she was a child. Matter of fact, it’s this shared childhood trauma, which happened right around the Roxxon Oil Gulf Platform explosion, that brought them together as children; the light and the dark saved each-other from death at a very tender age.

Ty is in the process of discovering his abilities that lead him to take the mantle of Cloak, to enclose others in darkness and transport them and himself through the Marvel concept known as the Darkforce dimension. Poor Ty also, after living in a world of fears from the awful death of his brother, has the ability to witness other people’s fears, which I’m sure doesn’t help his mental state. Tandy on the other hand, can literally emit light daggers and use them to furious and dazzling effect. Despite her cynical approach to running away from everything in life, Tandy also has the ability to access the hopes of other people through contact, which sure explains the bright visions she has after touching certain people. None of these things are helping her already fragile state of being, as we see clearly in Tandy’s reaction to her erstwhile partner Liam’s declaration of love in Episode 2.

Given the current political climate of 2018, it’s a bold move on the part of the show-makers to do a privileged version of POC and a down-and-out white lifestyle. The shared desires that both Tandy and Tyrone have, to fight their fears or run from them, to find a safe haven home with people who genuinely care for them, is something most of humanity can agree upon, that transcends skin color, race boundary, or class privilege. Done in a similar bright-but-dark style that made Marvel’s ‘Runaways’ quite the sleeper hit, ‘Cloak and Dagger’ flies under the radar of giant-budget Marvel action romps, delivering a super-secret sleeper hit that everyone should experience at least once!

Catch all the MCU hidden easter eggs with ‘Cloak and Dagger’, on Freeform now!

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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