DastardlyDude

If you are a fan of everything 90's hip hop culture than you will love this show. Even besides the core hip hop story it also gave a good glimpse of what it was like being a teen in West Germany during that time. I absolutely loved it.

Being that I was born in the 80's I can appropriately say this show sparked that flame of childhood reminiscence the right way. A good majority of our generation grew up with one parent in the house hold and this show managed to capture the trials and tribulations of that in two different aspects. Also being that High school is typically either one of the most cherished or hated times in a person's life the transition of turning into an adult all while dealing with your emotions, relationships, puberty and sexuality deems that the title "Everything Sucks!" being fairly true at this age. ES! managed to encapsulate all that while growing up in a extremely small town very well. We all miss the 90's, I'm just glad there are shows like this to at least make us feel like this time has yet to and will not be forgotten.

Being that only one episode has aired so far I'm not going to automatically say this show is destined to fail as I have high hopes for Black Lightning in a universe of predominantly Caucasian super hero's. I will say the first episode somewhat screamed victimization of African American's as though it was trying to compare the imaginary town to Chicago. I'm hoping this is somewhat toned down over the season because the first ep just kinda felt like a bit too much treating it as though the culmination of victimization and gang violence hitting home being the breaking point for Black Lightning giving him reason to adorn his mantle again. Had this been spread out over a few eps, I think maybe it would have been depicted better. Though I'm sure we will see him deal with the struggles of deciding to suit up again over the season I hope CW kinda slowly rolls his character out rather than just trying to force this part of the DC universe down our throats so they can align him with the rest of DC gang ie. Arrow, Flash, Legends and Supergirl.