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Cloak & Dagger (2018)
Much better than expected
This series is much better than I expected. I started watching it yesterday and am mid-way through season 2 right now. I was expecting cheesy kid stuff (like that nonsense you see on WB), but this is very engaging. Characters have depth. There are no weird love triangles. There's some minor dust-ups over people not telling people stuff right away ("betrayal" trope), but it's not over the top like the WB Arrowverse nonsense.
It's a different origin than the print version, but that's fine. It updates to work in the current Marvel paradigm - so someone hoping to watch print in motion will be disappointed, but that's not a fair expectation. Something made today shouldn't be a blow by blow of something made 40 years ago. The story is compelling. The storytelling (plays with time and perspective) is also compelling. It's worth a watch.