Luke Cage Season 2 Overall Review

I finally, finished watching season 2 of Luke cage and it was totally beyond my expectations!

Spoiler Alert

For all those that haven't checked a single episode of the second season don't bother yourselves with this post and instead jump to this one. Once again, beware as i am gonna spoil the shit out of it and share my experience watching it with all of you.

So down in Harlem Luke Cage is very popular after all the events that happened in season 1 and in Defenders and everybody knows him, both the citizens and the criminals. The new enemy in town is called Bushmaster and is a Jamaican fellow that came to take down Mariah and as he says claim his birthright. He has done his investigation and knows who Mariah has under her payroll, who her supporters are and in general knows all the variables that may be in his way.

To make ''a name'' and to become a bigger threat in the eyes of everyone and Mariah's ofc he goes down Harlem and kick Luke Cage's ass. In case you wonder how did he achieve it, he takes a Jamaican natural remedy that works like a steroid and enhances his power, speed and makes him somewhat bulletproof. At the same time Mariah wants to go out of the illegal life and with illegal methods :P she obtains a bunch of million out of a legitimate company. Aside from that she tries to sale her gun business to the highest bidder. She even brings back her daughter to her life in order to be seen with her by the public!

Bushmaster creates his own gang, which rules, kills everyone that support Mariah and go after her only to be stopped by Luke Cage but again kicking his ass. Mariah after that experience that nearly cost her life becomes a cold blooded gangster that kidnaps Bushmaster's uncle, take him back to his restaurant and kill everyone inside. Then she lets him see them dead and burned him alive. 

Somewhere around here we learn the true story of Bushmaster because till then it was just his words against everyone. Turns out that the club known as Harlem's Paradise was built by Mariah's and Bushmaster's grandpas. When a sign of threat came Mariah's grandfather chose to sell his partner and killed him only to receive a bullet by him and die a couple of days later. After that it was supposed to be half-half between Mama Mabel and Bushmaster's mother and when she asked her legitimate share, Mama Mabel and Buggy burnt her house with her inside as well as Bushmaster who his mother saved a couple of seconds before she died. Later on Buggy shots Bushmaster when we was just a kid but he was saved by his uncle that carried him to a shaman like woman that introduced him to the nightshade (the steroid). 

Long story short and later on we get to see a little bit of fight with Iron First and Luke Cage against gangs as well as Bushmaster and Cage against again gangs. Bushmaster tries to kill Mariah but fails and is damaged critically only to be saved by Mariah daughter that she is so sicked and tired of her mother that literally poisons her and kills her in prison.  The final scenes are Bushmaster leaving the country and going back to Jamaica cause now Mariah is dead and Mariahs lawyer is ready to open her will. Her will states that basically she gives nothing to her daughter and the famous club that called Harlem's paradise is given to Luke Cage and the reason behind it ,is to make him a villain or change him for the worst.

Will Luke Cage change and become a villain?
How will her daughter receive that gesture and what she will do?

Given how it ended they must create a season 3 i think! All in All it was a great season, with a great plot and both great new characters introduction as well as character development. I am very pleased this came out to be a great season because frankly in most of these series or superhero movies the next season turns out to be worst than the first one

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