EPISODE
SEASON
Cloak & Dagger - Season 1
The new Marvels' series revolves around the story of teenagers Tyrone and Tandy, who once find themselves have a supernatural power after being forced to be injected with strange drugs and fall in love with each other.
7 November 1985, Dallas, Texas, USA
16 March 1973, San Francisco, California, USA
17 November 1966, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
3 June 1988, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
3 July 1977, Dothan, Alabama, USA
June 06, 2018
Cloak and Dagger isn't a joyful series - it's an often somber coming-of-age story of two kids deeply traumatized but trying to heal - but it's joyful to watch it unfold.
June 07, 2018
The premiere mistakes the details of its characters' backstory for propulsive storytelling, and in doing so begins long before the story actually starts.
June 07, 2018
It's a rocky start, but once the series leans into its more formally audacious structures and brings its two leads together, Cloak & Dagger finds its identity and gives viewers a reason to invest.
June 06, 2018
Cloak and Dagger suffers from what many of the other Marvel shows do: it's too sluggish in its story pace and the plot falls by the wayside.
June 07, 2018
As a Freeform show, "Cloak & Dagger" has to skew in family-soap-opera and teenage-romance directions... Helping it go down are reliably good work by Gloria Reuben and Andrea Roth as the heroes' moms, and the location photography in New Orleans...
June 07, 2018
Importantly, crucially, we get believable and well-earned reasons - rooted in information revealed in those early, talkier episodes - for them to adopt the superheroic lifestyle, and devote themselves to justice, instead of revenge.
June 07, 2018
In a media market filled with caped crusaders, Cloak & Dagger still manages to stand out by breaking the rules for what it means to be a superhero.
June 07, 2018
Despite all indications that this Freeform production is made for the YA crowd, this beautifully shot and executed series is more artful and sophisticated than its genre of origin suggests.
June 07, 2018
Their journey should be thrilling, fascinating. It's a chore.
June 07, 2018
All [the] ponderousness is executed with a confidence and skill that promises a satisfying first season, and one I think you should give a shot. Let Marvel's and Freeform's kid sibling shine its own light (and shadow).
