Little Alcatraz. The secret millionaires line was seemingly a nod to Justin hammer being in Seagate.
First rule of Prison fight club is don't talk about prison fight club.
Rackham was more of a corrupt scumbag rather than racist bullying sadist.
Everyone seemed corrupt in Seasgate. The Warden Stuart wasn't in on Seagate's shady practices. Warden Stuart's sons were supervillains Stiletto and Discus who went after Cage because their father was fired after Cage escaped/ 'died'.
Reva has a more expanded role in the show than she ever had in the comics. Reva was dead by the time Cage was in Seagate. Noah Burstein was the one who befriend Carl and believed he was innocent. Burstein seems more morally dubious in the show from the little we saw him.
Reva mentioning her brother who is dead. In the comics he was a adolescent friend of Cage who introduced him to Reva when they were both hoodlums in Harlem. He later betrayed Cage.
Carl spiral felt more earned in the comics because so much terrible stuff happened to him while he was locked up. Reva was killed, he was framed, wrongly convicted, told his father had dies, his family wanted nothing to do with him, Rackham abused him and other prisoners tried to beat him up when he would not join their gangs. You really understood why he felt Carl Lucas 'died' and he was a different man as Luke Cage. The name was more than just a new identity.
I'm now calling Zoë Kravitz Godfather Part 2
Commanche and Shades.
Nice nod to the comics with Cage escape look.