Freeform Is Somehow Both Perfect and Horrible for ‘Cloak and Dagger’ TV Adaptation

Cover image by Autumn Sacura Freeform, the channel formerly known as ABC Family, has just announced that it is planning to bring a Cloak and Dagger television series to the small screen. The reaction from fans of Tyrone and Tandy was what you would expect – initial elation soon followed by multiple questions of concern and hesitation. The story of Cloak and Dagger lends itself to be the perfect teen drama, which was once ABC Family’s specialty. Hell, in one incarnation of the two, they were high school sweethearts that got into an accident on the way to prom. If that doesn’t sound like a teen drama trope you haven’t watched enough TV. The dramaz is realz. [divider type=”space_thin”] For the unfamiliar, Cloak (Tyrone Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) are a super-powered duo that have been around in comics for a few decades now. They were actually birthed to support the big “Say ‘No’ to Drugs” campaign in the 80s — they were forced to take drugs that activated their powers to manipulate darkness and light. As you’d expect, they spent a lot of their time from then on busting up drug operations in suspiciously busy piers and breaking into drug kingpin penthouses. If there were ever a Marvel title that would fit in a dramatic high school setting, it’d probably be Cloak and Dagger. You know, besides the X-Men or Spider-Man (been there, done that). Freeform creating a show that follows the lives of a teenaged interracial couple actually makes a whole lot of sense. But that’s only p…