Black Lightning (2018) Reviews & Ratings

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Black Lightning reviews

Black Lightning holds a 6.9/10 average from 981 TMDB ratings.

I suppose that the best part of Black Lightening is that, from time to time, it throws some serious 1970s Funk at you, and that is honestly about the coolest thing that you can do with a show...or movie...or just in general. And it beats the heck out of modern music. However, more so than any of the other Super Hero shows on the CW, it suffers HEAVILY under the mark of the CW. Just when you think it's going to take…
— GenerationofSwine (1/10)

Late to the party but flipping through the book of *"It Had So Much Potential";* a body of failed files thicker than a chinese phonebook at the CW. And because it is the CW, I see this series and can't help but turn my makeshift title into an epitaph. I mean it's the CW... where else was this show going to go but into the Entertainment Murder Files?\*\* I mean identity politics was pounding the heck out of the CW's…
— DallasBob (7/10)

Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.

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