![]() ![]() The writers wanted to make it clear this episode that shit is very bad and certain to get worse. And Gambi’s tactic to delay deployment of the DEGs merely slows production by a few days. This further cements Lopez’s hate towards metas which puts them at even greater risk. When the mayor is fatally shot, Chief Lopez blames them for getting in the way. When Lala attacks the buyback event, Lightning, Blackbird and Grace-newly-nicknamed Wylde- intervene. Freeland is awaiting shipment of the next-gen DEGs, which as we’ve seen, can do major damage to metas. Tobias is clearly setting the mayor up by suggesting he have a gun buyback event at the homeless safe zone. Finally allowing them to express the ugly emotions makes way for real healing, and even more compelling storytelling.īlack Lightning is a show based on a comic book and as such, there has to be something epic going on. Jefferson and Lynn are in different types of recovery, and introspection could only take them so far without also confronting their unresolved anger toward each other. When Lynn confronts him about the fighting, which was discovered by Jennifer and TC, he lets loose a verbal grenade that she returns in kind. Fighting in Lala’s illegal cage matches may have given Jeff an outlet, but he still carries his hurt with him. Jefferson has cocooned himself in his grief and he expels those feelings in fits of violent rage that have left more than one-admittedly deserving- person severely injured. And while that can be exhausting, writers have used it to a mostly positive effect, driving the emotional core of the show. Black Lightning Season 4, Episode 4īlack Lightninghas been dealing in trauma for the entirety of its run and that has not changed in this, the final season. This Black Lightning review contains spoilers. ![]()
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