Found the whole show a bit underwhelming. Some of the characters were good (Misty Knight) and i understood the themes the show was aiming for, but the whole plot felt mostly aimless.
I'll start by mentioning how Matthew Murdock and Jessica Jones's jobs and their connections to their superheroics were part of what helped make those shows compeling and shape the characters. In here, Luke Cage is mostly aimless, just doing jobs here and there before having nothing more to do than pursuing Cottonmouth full-time. What made him fresh in the comic books was the fact that he was a guy whose job realy was being a superhero. He might have always been moraly righteous, but the cool thing about him was that he had to make this whole thing be his ends meet. They hint at him being a hero for hire now and then...........only for him to shut down those offers immediately. I honestly found this to be a serious missed oportunity. It makes me wonder why he was given a show in the first place, considering they just went with more of a generic super-powered man going against gangsters story.
That said, there were some good moments, like Cottonmouth. I didn't find him that engaging in the first few episodes, but the middle section of the show was gold. [BLACKOUT] I don't even mind Diamondback taking over, since i feel like they had already done the best stories they could with his character. Diamondback's motivation was kinda dumb, but i admit that he was very entertaining to watch. He was more unpredictable than the other gangsters and gave some serious challenge to Luke. Which made his suit a bit of a let down. He was much more threatening when he was just shooting with the judas bullets. [/BLACKOUT]
