Painkiller: Black Lightning Spinoff Could Head to HBO Max
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Painkiller had been passed over by the network. In their write-up on the news,
The Hollywood Reporter brought word that Warner Bros. TV will be shopping the series around to other potential homes with the trade noting that HBO Max could be a possible destination for the series. Painkiller wasn t the only series not picked up by The CW though with Our Ladies of Brooklyn, described as a dramedy about two millennial nuns was also passed on by the network.
It s unclear if the WarnerMedia streamer will pick up the show however, and it s not a guarantee that a Warner Bros. TV series would immediately be picked up by HBO Max just because they live under the same umbrella. Earlier this month came word that the WBTV produced series Prodigal Son had been cancelled at FOX and while the producers sought out a new home for the series, targeting HBO Max as a first, it was revealed last week that the streamer had passed on the o
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never really got a chance to fully benefit from the kind of interconnected, multiversal-hopping madcaps that the CW’s other comic book shows enjoy, it spent four seasons carving out a distinct space on the network where Black superheroes could stand front and center as the focus of their own stories. Last night, it had its swan song in “The Book of Resurrection: Chapter Two: Closure.”
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From the very beginning,
Black Lightning used its heroes and the city of Freeland to tackle the kinds of stories about systemic, anti-Black racism that are every bit as much a part of American history as comic books themselves. In doing so, Salim Akil’s series brought its DC characters to life with a purpose beyond immediate entertainment. Though the series arrived in 2017 already comfortable in that mode of social justice-focused storytelling, it’s been interesting to watch other series like