Now, Queen Latifah has taken on the badass role of the former federal agent who’s using her skills for vigilante efforts, and the show stars several other well-known faces like Chris Noth (The Good Wife), Lorriane Toussaint (Orange Is the New Black), and Adam Goldberg (Friends, Saving Private Ryan).
Aside from its Super Bowl lead in, The Equalizer does have the added benefit of being a property which is already familiar to many people.
It was first seen as a series on CBS in the 1980s (then starring Edward Woodward), where it lasted for four seasons, and was recently re-imagined as a film franchise starring Denzel Washington as the titular righter of wrongs for the downtrodden and hopeless.