Episode
6: This Extraordinary Being
Good
lord this show. This was probably my favorite episode. I will say the
same thing next week because each episode manages to get
progressively better. This show should not work. Seriously, its based
off of a comic book that while many have read its not talked about as
much as the worst superhero movies or shows. Most people know
Watchmen from the movie which this show doesn't even follow. Its nuts
but great. Last week was Looking Glass' episode. This week belonged
to Will Reeves and his history. It starts with an episode of American
Hero Story where Hooded Justice is forced to unmask with the threat
of a sex tape featuring him coming out if he does not help prove them
out. He kicks their asses and worries more about the fact he was
cheated on by another hero.
This
takes place after Angela housed Will's pills (which sounds like a
terrible rap group) and starts reliving moments of his life. He is
being decorated as an officer and shit is so racist they have another
Black cop pin his star on him. The guy tells him to beware of the
cyclops. Of course he has no idea what this means. One night on
patrol he watches this guy throw a molotov through a window and
stroll away. He gets arrested and released likely right after Will
left the station. The other cops tell him they don't know what he is
talking about and to keep quiet. Later that night some of his
colleagues offer him a lift home. He declines. They trap him in an
alley, beat the shit out of him, and hang him. They cut him down
before he dies and tells him to stay out of their business...but in a
way more racist way.
Will's
wife knows he is angry at what happened to his parents when they were
children. It turns out she is the baby he found and saved when he was
a kid. On the way home after almost being hung he catches some guys
about to fuck a couple up. He puts the hood back on and kicks their
asses. At home his wife says that people will not want a Black man
saving them so he starts painting around his eyes like he's a White
dude. The shit works and he makes a name for himself. Captain
Metropolis comes to his house and makes an offer to join his team
that Hooded Justice inspired. They end up having butt sex and he has
to always wear the mask because even though they are heroes not all
of them are not racist. Captain Metropolis also doesn't give a fuck
about solving issues that pertain to Black folk. Oh, and Will's wife
is pregnant.
Will
discovers that a hand gesture the cops were using is related to
Cyclops. The Minutemen team does not care. This Cyclops shit has to
do with hypnotism (by the way I am leaving a lot of shit out) and it
happens when one night a theater full of Black people start mauling
one another. Will finds out where their hiding spot is and it is
owned by the asshole who threw that molotov years prior. We know its
years because his kid is older. He shoots the guy dead, bursts into
the place with his cop uniform and Hooded Justice mask, kills the
KKK/cops, and takes one of their projectors home. His wife decides to
leave him after he snaps on his son for dressing like him. Fast
forward to Will on the side of the road watching Judd drive by and
his tires bursting and then a flashing light. Will had turned a
flashlight into a strobe and used that Cyclops technology to make
Judd actually hang himself!
Laurie
was able to break through for a minute earlier and had Cal talk to
her. Try to remind who she is and that they are married and have
three kids. Angela finally wake sup in Lady Trieu's place with a tube
connect to her arm. Trieu's company are the ones that made the
Nostalgia pills Angela downed but they are outlawed now. This episode
answered so many questions. What Will had been up to in all those
missing years. Hell, you see what traits Angela inherited form him. I
love that he had to paint his face white while Angela paints her
black before putting on her mask. I don't watch the next time on
clips and hate that when I watch reviews they show parts of them or
talk about it. I am fine with waiting a week, people.
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