The new trailer for Luke Cage season 2 puts black women front and center
The first couple of trailers for the second season of Netflix and Marvel’s Luke Cage seemed like they were meant to get fans hyped about the new villains the bulletproof protector of Harlem will be facing. By contrast, the most recent trailer wants to reframe the new season altogether. This time around, it seems like the black women of Luke Cage will be taking center stage.
“You don’t need to be bulletproof to be a superhero,” Mariah Dillard tells a new protegée, likely Tilda Johnson (aka Nightshade). “Black women have always had superpowers, turning pain into progress.”
To the tune of Lauryn Hill’s vocals on Fugees’ “Ready or Not,” the rest of the two-minute trailer is an explicit reframing of the series, previewing a story arc that...