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The show centers on Jefferson Pierce. He made his choice: he hung up the suit and his secret identity years ago, but with a daughter hell-bent on justice and a star student being recruited by a local gang, he'll be pulled back into the fight as the wanted vigilante and DC legend Black Lightning.
While Jefferson is ostensibly the good guy in a storyline that involves talking a woman who drew his daughter into a prostitution ring off of a ledge, Black Lightning thrives in shining a light on why those not as good as Jeffferson are still worth saving
It's all pulled off powerfully and artfully by principal executive producer Mara Brock Akil (Girlfriends, The Game), who's assisted by DC impresario Greg Berlanti.
Black Lightning has found a way to make the typical superhero origin story, already depicted endlessly on television shows and in movies (and reboots of movies) fresh: by bypassing it altogether.
Black Lightning has dope music, great scenes between a black father and his daughters, intense action scenes, and lays the groundwork for what is to be an epic season of TV.