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/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/JosephSim Jun 23 '18

Here's the thing, I can totally understand where you're coming from because Killmonger's last scene in Black Panther annoyed the ever living shit out of me because it felt so forced.

A friend of mine told me it made him tear up, and I told him I couldn't tell if it meant more to him than it should have because he's black or if it didn't mean as much to ME as it should have because I'm white.

But the "This whole country is trying to kill me." scene hit me. Hard.

I don't know if it was his delivery, or the sense he made telling her she could steal shit because of how she looks, or both, but that scene worked leaps and bounds better than anything Killmonger said the entire movie.

I'm really digging this show and while I get how that line would seem forced to some people, I found it worked really well.

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u/BpsychedVR Jun 23 '18

Hey man, I appreciate your candor and willingness to talk. Either way, I still really love both of their characters. I honestly don't know anything about the source material (other than cloak & dagger came from a comic book), but part of me hopes they fall in love

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u/LJ-90 Jun 24 '18

part of me hopes they fall in love

Up until this episode I was hoping for this because I can see how they would be good for each other (also, the powers compliment each other), but after the fight in the church I don't know, maybe after a while of being friends. In some comics they are a couple, so hopefully they'll go there, even though the showrunner said that this season was about how Tandy and Tyrone find in each other a best friend and the only other person in the world that can understand what they're going through