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The life of teenagers, Tandy and Tyrone, who fall in love with each other, has been changed upon finding out that they have acquired superpowers and have to get along with them.
As a Freeform show, "Cloak & Dagger" has to skew in family-soap-opera and teenage-romance directions... Helping it go down are reliably good work by Gloria Reuben and Andrea Roth as the heroes' moms, and the location photography in New Orleans...
The premiere mistakes the details of its characters' backstory for propulsive storytelling, and in doing so begins long before the story actually starts.
It's a rocky start, but once the series leans into its more formally audacious structures and brings its two leads together, Cloak & Dagger finds its identity and gives viewers a reason to invest.
Cloak and Dagger isn't a joyful series - it's an often somber coming-of-age story of two kids deeply traumatized but trying to heal - but it's joyful to watch it unfold.
All [the] ponderousness is executed with a confidence and skill that promises a satisfying first season, and one I think you should give a shot. Let Marvel's and Freeform's kid sibling shine its own light (and shadow).
Despite all indications that this Freeform production is made for the YA crowd, this beautifully shot and executed series is more artful and sophisticated than its genre of origin suggests.
Importantly, crucially, we get believable and well-earned reasons - rooted in information revealed in those early, talkier episodes - for them to adopt the superheroic lifestyle, and devote themselves to justice, instead of revenge.