Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger season 2 finale review: Saving New Orleans

Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger ends its second season with yet another city-wide catastrophe. Will Tandy, Tyrone, and crew save everyone from Andre?

Welcome to the season 2 finale of Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger! It’s been a fun ride this season. What does Thursday night’s episode have in store? Let’s find out!

Tandy’s light knife didn’t stop Andre in time last week, and now the whole city is in danger. People keep disappearing. They turn to Evita, who basically tells them to go to the Loa dimension (the Darkforce dimension).

Tyrone opens a doorway that Evita has to keep open while they jump into a world of despair.

It’s nothing like it was before.  Their waypoint is all busted up. We do get a wonderfully emotional pep talk from Tyrone to perk Tandy up and get her ready to take on Andre in this alternate dimension. “I believe in Tandy Bowen,” he says as Tandy points the way.

Andre separates our heroes immediately, sending them into two different alternate versions of their lives. Tandy gets faced with her father, but Tyrone gets faced with himself.

MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER – “Blue Note” – Tyrone and Tandy turn to questionable allies in their attempt to find and stop the villain behind the trafficking ring. Meanwhile, Tandy learns more about Lia’s past. This episode of “Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger” airs May 23 (8:00-9:01 p.m. EDT) on Freeform. (Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani)

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Everything has definitely changed. Think back to when Tandy was on drugs in the ambulance. They get to encounter all of the different versions of themselves. Tyrone fights his way out against himself and calls for Tandy, who manages to escape from her dad.

But it’s only for a moment. They get swept into different visions, always yelling for the other in an effort to guide each other out.

In an awesome, fun twist, they switch partners. Who better to take on their inner demons than their best friend and counterpart? We see how much Tandy and Tyrone truly have grown to love and need each other over the last two seasons. Everything they say to the other’s inner demons is the truth, heartfelt, and touching.

It almost gets them out of it, too, but Andre pops up to throw them back against their own darkest fears. But it’s as if they heard the other’s heartfelt speech because they battle brilliantly to make it out and move on.

And then it’s time for the main course, except that Tandy’s learned a few things. She aims her daggers at the crowd of women to wake them out of their dazes and uses her angry light ball to bring on Andre’s migraine.

Cloak and Dagger gives us an awesome comic book moment of Tyrone launching Tandy out of his cloak and her stabbing Andre with her light sword. They give Andre a taste of his own medicine.

So what happens afterwards? Mayhem helps cover up the death of Connors, making it look like a suicide in the precinct. Tyrone’s name has been cleared, but he’s still skulking around. Tandy’s off, a bag packed.

MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER – “Restless Energy” – Now living very different lives, Tyrone and Tandy try to stay under the wire while still honing their powers. After coming to terms with their destiny, the two now find it difficult to just stand by and do nothing while bad things continue to happen throughout the city. Meanwhile, Brigid is struggling from her recovery. This episode of “MarvelÕs Cloak & Dagger” airs Thursday, April 4 (8:00 Ð 9:00 p.m. ET/PT) on Freeform. (Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani)

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Post-Credits Stinger

We only get one of these a season! Tandy’s aboard a Greyhound bus when Tyrone joins her. “Do you think we can do it? Be good? Be heroes?” She asks Tyrone.

”Waffles or pancakes?” Tyrone asks in response in a callback to their hand-holding lessons. They are off to see the world for a change. Gain some new perspective.

Badass Moment of the Week

Mayhem/Brigid blowing up Fuchs felt very cathartic.

Best One-Liner

“If anyone can kick my ass, it’s you,” Tyrone says just before they switch partners.

I loved that Tandy made a light sword. And kudos on the Zorro reference.

I didn’t mention the one side plot… Mayhem goes to see Mina Hess to see where the two of her are inside of her current body. She gets an MRI, but in all honestly, the heart to heart between Mina and Mayhem speaks plenty in only a few sentences.

In a “we need to throw two other characters together,” Mayhem shows up to help Evita keep the candle lit. And yes, Mayhem is the muscle.

That concludes season 2 of Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger! As of right now, the show hasn’t been renewed for a third season. Then again, we didn’t get renewed for a second season until the middle of July, so there’s still time! But if it doesn’t get renewed, this works as a very solid series finale.

Regardless of what happens, thanks for sticking with us here at Culturess for the ride. We’ll be back to share it all with you if Cloak and Dagger gets a third season…or gets transferred to Disney+.