Just about everything the show has to offer is getting praised, from the embrace of diversity to the hip hop-driven soundtrack to the fight scenes to the real-world inspirations to everything else.
It is, of course, possible that Luke Cage would have been just as incredible coming out next year instead of in a few days, but we’ll never have to know.
(Read our glowing review here.)
While we will never know if there’s a “right” way for this all to have gone, the early buzz puts Luke Cage as one of Marvel’s best efforts yet, with Mike Colter getting a whole lotta love alongside that stacked cast, which also includes Mahershala Ali, Alfre Woodard, Simone Missick, Theo Rossi and more.