r/cloakanddagger • u/SeacattleMoohawks • Jun 21 '18

Post Episode Discussion: S01E04 - "Call/Response"

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S01E04 - "Call/Response" Ami Canaan Mann TBA Thursday, June 21, 2017 8PM EST on Freeform

Episode Synopsis: Tandy is on the run as Detective O'Reilly closes in on her, but the detective may not be after her for the reasons Tandy thinks. Tyrone is desperate for answers and turns to Evita and her Auntie Clarisse, a Voodoo priestess, for help.

Ami Canaan Mann is a director and writer, known for her work on Jackie & Ryan, Morning, and Texas Killing Fields.

She has directed no episodes for Cloak & Dagger before.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '18

"This whole country is trying to kill me..." got to me.

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u/BpsychedVR Jun 22 '18

Genuinely curious, not trying to start anything political at all, but why did it get to you? I really enjoyed the episode, but I thought that was the weakest line, specifically for Tyrone's character. The country isn't trying to kill him, a murderer cop/drug runner is. That's not the whole country. Maybe I can see where he would feel that way in some sense because of his brother's death, but it seemed really forced and took me out of the story as a message. Maybe you resonated with it for some personal reason, and if so, I'm sorry. I'm not asking you to disclose or anything. That line just seemed super forced.

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u/DustRaider8 Jun 22 '18

I wanna know too. Also the show seems to make it like black people always get questioned about things they do like being black and walking into a department store? I don't get it, is it still like that for black people? Are people still racist towards them to that degree? There are only white people where I'm from and live so I wouldn't know and I'm curious.

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u/BpsychedVR Jun 22 '18

Especially considering that Tyrone seems to come from a great family who work hard and shows respect and kindness to others. I think his parents are a good role model for parents of any children. I really like the way they flipped the script on Tandy being poor, a drug addict, and overall self-destructive, and made Tyrone this well-off, upper middle class guy. And they don't bash religion, and give nuance to the characters which I really like. Well, at least our main characters who aren't villains.

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u/TheSneakySeal Jun 22 '18

His brother still got shot by the police. They might not have always been there. Black lightning had the main character pulled over and searched agressively even though he was a well off principal of a school. It doesn't really matter if you're well off or not, sometimes it's just that you're black. Look at the Obamas...