Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger review: Vinyls, blue notes, and a city in danger

Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger sends us hurtling toward the season finale. Can Tandy and Tyrone stop Andre before he puts all of New Orleans under his spell?

Will Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger start to answer some of the questions that have been hanging out there all season? Or will we end up focusing on Andre’s rise to god-dom? Let’s jump in and find out!

96 months ago, Andre’s recording a session on vinyl and I feel as though Jack White as well as old school blues musicians would appreciate it. He’s trying to hit that infamous blue note to have an out of body experience for himself and the audience.

Except he doesn’t quite make it. He gets a headache and collapses.

Tyrone goes off to search for Andre that way while Tandy teams up with Mayhem. They find Lia still unconscious but humming a familiar, creepy tune. The same one all the girls from the trafficking ring are humming in prison. There’s nothing but static left in her.

92 months ago, we see Andre getting ready to commit suicide as the Roxxon rig explodes. He’s a man on his last straw with nothing left to give. Lia is his nurse in the hospital afterwards. There’s a touch between them as she goes to adjust his pulse monitor and that’s when he first encounters the vinyl store.

MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER – “Blue Note” –  Photo: Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani

And we see the beginning of it all.

When Tyrone and Tandy meet up again, they head into Lia’s mind. Cloak and Dagger always works better when they put these two together. We get a glimpse into Lia’s relationship with Andre and it’s as abusive as you would imagine.

We hop through moments and memories and Tandy puts a “reissue” vinyl in the Darkforce dimension to catch Andre’s attention.

He’s after an audience to hit that blue note and make all of New Orleans into husks of themselves, take all of their despair to power him into a god.

They track him down as he’s playing the music to unlock the door to becoming a god, all of the girls affected by him staring on creepily, all dazed and confused.

In what’s a really good Badass Moment of the Week, Tandy throws a light dagger at Tyrone, who absorbs it, disappears, and reappears next to Andre, aiming the dagger at his trumpet as he hits the infamous blue note.

Everyone disappears—Andre included. And the mystery door in the Darkforce dimension has cracked open.

MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER – “Blue Note”. Photo: reeform/Alfonso Bresciani

Badass Moment of the Week

Oh snap! We get our first legit crossover moment! It’s with Marvel’s Luke Cage—he’s on the cover of the newspaper.

One of the heavier, sadder moments of the episode comes with Tyrone on the phone with his mom. He asks about Connors and she lies that he’s filling in the blanks. That’s when we see her burning bloody newspapers—with Tyrone watching through the window.

It was also a nice touch for Cloak and Dagger to show how Andre’s vinyl store got that stocked—shaking the hands of every broken woman who comes into the community center for the group therapy sessions.

Next week is the season finale of Cloak and Dagger! I can’t believe we’ve made it this far–and the preview makes it look like it’s going to be a doozy. People disappearing, but I doubt it’s Thanos-related.