Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger season 1 episode 3 review: Stained Glass

A pinch of voodoo leads Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger down some strange paths this week, as our two heroes begin to learn how connected they truly are.

Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger heads into its third episode, promising to bring in some voodoo to figure things out. So… does it deliver on that promise?

Not-So-Short Summary

Don’t forget — we ended last episode with Tyrone shooting at Tandy (after accidentally teleporting himself). Our two heroes stay together for all of 20 seconds. Man, this show really just likes to tease us at this point.

Tandy definitely has a concussion from the crash, but it doesn’t stop her from running away. Or taking an unscheduled trip to the Darkforce dimension… and then to an ethereal plane where she runs into young Tyrone.

It’s his happy place, the last actual interaction with his brother. And his brother decides to stay with Tyrone rather than go steal back their radio. It segues awkwardly into a scene repeated: killing the cop he’s after, only to be chased down by the cops and killed. Over and over. Just with different weapons each time.

Tandy offers him a light dagger, which turns into handcuffs. And it breaks the cycle.

Tyrone, meanwhile, hides in the bushes from the cops and heads to school. He talks to stained glass (hey! That’s the title of the episode), asking his brother for some guidance in this weird time. While he talks, his latest friend (Evita) at school offers a solution to his “curse:”

Voodoo.

He makes a wish on the most famous voodoo priestess’s grave. I half-expected him to be transported to the Darkforce dimension (or anywhere else than that graveyard). Evita takes him to see her auntie, who offers Tyrone a potential solution.

Let’s take a voodoo bath! Now we get him transported somewhere else! He, too, gets sent to the ethereal plane and runs into young Tandy.

He rescues her from getting electrocuted on top of the Roxxon building, only to segue into another awkward scene that involves her dad tied up in an office meeting. And drowning by the hands of the corporation he worked for. She just runs. It’s a little on the nose.

Tyrone freezes her with his powers and tells her to try something else. So she tries a light dagger. And it breaks the cycle.

Well… it breaks that cycle. Both get sent to new loops, just as miserable as the last. They reach each other through the stained glass (hey!) and come out of their trances.

Also now we have a 3D printed voodoo doll of Tyrone?

Best One-Liner

“Don’t take this the wrong way, but… I hope I never see you again,” Tandy says to Tyrone before driving off in her busted car. Too bad that’s probably not going to happen.

This show loves to draw parallels. When Tyrone gets transported in the voodoo bath, the house he wakes up in has stained glass windows. We also get to watch both of their separate, yet very similar paths, too.

I didn’t touch on Detective O’Reilly. Basically… she knows the one guy tried to rape Tandy. And the crooked cop Tyrone’s after “cleans up” and “closes” her case. But then Tandy calls her, willing to talk.

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Next week’s Cloak and Dagger looks like our two heroes finally start to figure things out. Like their powers and how in tandem they are. It looks like it’ll be a fun ride.