Black Lightning Is Breaking Bad and Burning Bright
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China Anne McClain as Lightning, Cress Williams as Black Lightning, and Nafessa Willians as Thunder. (Image: The CW)
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Black Lightning’s third season, the city of Freeland became a new kind of war zone as the American Security Agency and the nation of Markovia set out to turn our heroes’ hometown into a profitable source for the world’s growing demand for living, metahuman weapons. Together with his vigilante daughters Lightning and Thunder, Black Lightning was able to bring some semblance of peace back to Freeland, but not without everyone paying a tremendous price in the process. Let’s catch up on season four, shall we?
Image: The CW
In
Black Lightning’s third season, the city of Freeland became a new kind of war zone as the American Security Agency and the nation of Markovia set out to turn our heroes’ hometown into a profitable source for the world’s growing demand for living, metahuman weapons. Together with his vigilante daughters Lightning and Thunder, Black Lightning was able to bring some semblance of peace back to Freeland, but not without everyone paying a tremendous price in the process. Let’s catch up on season four, shall we?
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For the past few weeks,
Black Lightning’s fourth and final season has been chronicling the Pierce family’s attempt to pick up the pieces of their lives at a time when it feels like the world’s pressing in on them all in different ways, now more than ever before. Like a lot of network TV superhero shows with a clearly defined end in sight,
Black Lightning Recap: Everything You Missed in the Season 4 Premiere
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One of the few The CW series to air its complete its season last year while the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the production of many other offerings,
Black Lightning returns tonight for its fourth and final season. The last viewers saw the titular hero and his family, they had stopped the Markovian invasion of Freeland as well as outed the misdeeds of the shady government agency the A.S.A. Season 3 ended on a note of optimism for Freeland with those threats out of the way, but now with the series back and picking up one year later, things haven t quite gone so well for Freeland or its hero.