Television, drug of the nation

It's the shitty kind of superhero action that gets rebooted after a series/film because they realise how badly made it is once they're done.

decent premise and story but this bit from the guardian review nails it

Oddly, one of the main flaws becomes apparent when it jumps into the superhero action. Given that it takes barely 10 minutes to prove itself to be competent drama, it is easy to forget there is some suited-up scrapping to be done; when Black Lightning dons his glowing latex, it almost lowers the tone, possibly because it looks like something an 80s ITV gameshow contestant might wear to run through a cardboard maze.

the superhero'y bits are corny as fuck. feel like the old 80s/90s style superhero action rather than the modern stuff which works 100x better.