With Daredevil’s Success Comes Luke Cage’s Great Responsibility

We’ve seen moments like this before. LeBron James. To Pimp a Butterfly. The Rains of Castamere episode of Game of Thrones. Sometimes, rarely, the expectations do meet the hype. When Daredevil dropped last week, we geeks were pretty hopped up on whatever Hell’s Kitchen was cookin’, waiting to watch #MurdaMurdock put in that work. Most of us thought it would be good. Some Easter eggs here, some cool action there. Maybe a couple of radar sense fight scenes for us to go, “that was cool.” So I was pretty surprised when it instantly became the best comic book adaptation on TV. Many of us at BNP had given that crown to first-year Flash while recognizing it was still on CW and had limitations that made it a good comic book TV show and not a particularly great TV show sans qualifiers. Yeah, Barry Allen, I hate it had to be you man. Daredevil dropped thirteen episodes on a Friday night like Beyonce and was telling everyone else to Watch The Throne by Sunday morning. The fact that people are still talking about how much they love Daredevil even after Game of Thrones debuted its 5th season two days later is a testament that we’re not fuckin’ around here. [quote_right]”I’d say Daredevil went Dark Knight in its content, but it actually out Dark Knight-ed, Dark Knight.”[/quote_right]And really, Netflix hasn’t been fuckin’ around with us for a while now. Their mix of original and British studio collaborative programming has been putting numbers on the board for a few years at this point. Sti…