Red Stewart reviews the ninth episode of Black Lightning season 2…Running away from home isn’t all that it’s made out to be. Movies like The Outsiders, American Beauty, and even The Lion King have often portrayed this path as leading to a partially happy outcome, but the truth is, even with money, there are a lot of problems that […]

Red Stewart reviews the eighth episode of Black Lightning season 2…“The Book of Rebellion: Exodus.” Read that again. Never before has Black Lightning produced an episode with a title so apt in both its Biblical stem and chapter subheading. Jennifer and Khalil are on an exodus, simultaneously running and rebelling against their respective caretakers, Tobias Whale and […]

Red Stewart reviews the seventh episode of Black Lightning season 2…One of the things I’ve been hearing about Aquaman, based on early social media reactions, is that it is reportedly very zany, full of balls-to-the-wall imagery, action, and plot threads. As a comic book fan, this is nothing short of fantastic to hear. But as a […]

Red Stewart reviews the sixth episode of Black Lightning season 2…Now this is what I’m talking about. At about the halfway mark of the second season, Black Lightning has finally given me an episode that I can praise as a worthwhile endeavor. Of course, it still has some of the same issues prevalent in previous entries, […]