When Marvel premiered the first season of Luke Cage in 2016 it represented an opportunity for the comics giant to give space to a strong black hero for an extended outing in the immediate aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The first season of the show offered plenty in the way of high-kicking action and a noirish styled take on Harlem in its story of a man who, after an experiment goes wrong, is gifted with powers that make him impossible to kill.
Problem was, it seemed as if the show's creators had thrown everything they had into the first half of the season before visibly losing steam and trying to make up for a lack of ideas by simply giving their hero more and more baddies to kick.
Since then, we've had Black Panther and the CW's Black Lightning - strong black comic book-derived stories that attempt with varied levels of success to deal with broader issues affecting black life in the post-Obama age, something which Luke Cage noticeably failed to deal with in its first 13 episodes.
Cage spent this time making an appearance in the crossover series Defenders, which saw him and fellow Marvel stars Daredevil and Jessica Jones form an alliance in a haphazard unfocused fight against way too many enemies of New York to keep up with.
WATCH | The trailer for Luke Cage Season 2..