Black Lightning Recap: The Book of Blood–Chapter Two: Perdi

Season 2 / Episode 6, The Book of Blood: Chapter Two: The Perdi The Looker? I don’t know her.

  What? Did the writers find out not enough white folks watch Black Lightning? Is that why we have this weird storyline involving really racist white folks in the Southside with super powers (I just threw up a little bit in my mouth writing that sentence). I’m just. No. We were doing so well! What I’ve always loved about BL is that the show seemed to be written by Black folks for Black folks. It didn’t worry about catering to the typical comic book fanboy demographic (read: white, cisgender, male). BL transcended that mess. But now *wails and tears clothes* NOW I am just so confused. As my fellow Black Lighting fan and BNP writer Lauren Bullock, so eloquently puts it, “Hm? The Looker? Never heard of it. Weird how they’re only focusing on Lynn and Jen.” We start this episode with some weird white girl who seems to be the source of the silver alloy what not coming out of Deacon in the last episode. This lady, apparently called “The Looker”, has infected a whole bunch of white meth-heads to do her bidding, which has not been explicitly named, except we know it’s super racist. Okay. Apparently, there are two groups in South Freeland, the Perdie, who are white, and the Sanjay, the Black folks. They have hated each other since the beginning of time, or some shit, for no real reason except racial differences. Enter Anaya and Deacon, starcrossed lovers, who are having a child together….