That sounds... Ominous.

Bushmaster fought both Luke Cage and Misty at once and won, beats down a metal security door, and then fights Cage, Misty and Shades (with gun). He’s not doing badly at all.
But Bushmaster was never the threat Luke couldn’t punch away: that’s Mariah.

I mean, what is Nightshade without ridiculously complex crime robots? 

Yeah, the grades are all switched around between this and episode 10. This episode had some good things (loved Tilda’s song), but this was a garbage finale for this season. Like I loved 90% of this season, but this was in no way built up to besides a random person on the street telling Luke he should do this. It’s…

AND OF COURSE, WORST REPORTER EVER KAREN LET’S IT SLIP THAT SOMEONE SURVIVED THE MASSACRE

“I’ve made a huge mistake.”

The more I think on it, the more I feel the pieces of Luke’s destination were always there during this season, they just constantly failed to make anything coherent about it. Thus, as I mentioned in another comment, while I think this is a brilliant end point for Luke, the path is just bizarre.

While I was sad to see Shades and Theo Rossi exit the show, I did think it was the perfect for the character. There was no epic shootout, no grand speeches, no final confrontations. Instead he got busted for playing the game, with one of his plans falling true, and him just accepting it with a smirk as he was led away.

I thought Tilda’s actions made sense. She tried to be open to Mariah but she became more and more horrified with what her mother was becoming. And she saw how often Mariah was able to escape justice. She may have a timid personality, but there’s a limit to how much someone can stand.

Chekov’s Dosage: “Whatever you do, do NOT take this full dosage. Take, like, half.”

I very much get the feeling that the reviewer has no idea that “Tilda Johnson” is a supervillain named Nightshade in the comics, and thus people who knew that spent the whole season waiting for this shoe to drop and find out what could lead this seemingly good-hearted person down that road. Of course, this also points…

I understand the threat of a power vacuum in Harlem, but Luke deciding to fill it himself felt off given how squarely upstanding MCU Luke is. It seems like there should’ve at least been a clear Hero For Hire phase in-between. Strong-arming gangsters out of Harlem is one thing, but personally overseeing local…

But have any patrons died?  It’s clearly the exciting place to go.

Why do people still go to the club anymore? The place has been attacked twice now at this point. I don’t think a fee concert is worth it when there’s a good chance of being held hostage at gunpoint or a supervillain crashing the party. At the very least their rating on Yelp should have gone down a star or something.

Every time I do a heel turn I talk to a gravestone. You don’t?

The fact that it was green and yellow was even better. 

This is the one episode that I am planning to rewatch in the near future.

I agree with you, if Danny had come around after Luke nearly killed Cockroach and drove Claire away it would have made more sense. Danny could have helped him resolve his anger, balance himself, and most importantly, be somebody that Luke can hit without worrying about almost killing him. Now it has Luke wondering…

I think Alfre Woodard almost pulls off Mariah’s change. The actor is there, the justification is there. Her big climactic play to go legit, monetarily and reputationally, was utterly ruined right as she was certain of success, and she’s utterly defeated by a man whose essential purpose is to force her to remember and…

From the minute Shades found the restaurant and kidnapped Anansi it was clear this would happen. I wish they had spent this season turning Mariah into the villain for next season while she worked with Luke to defeat Bushmaster this season, but oh well. Shades isn’t dumb and should have seen all of this coming and…