‘Black Lightning’ Finale: Family Matters in the Fight for Freeland

If you’re partial to a TV season that heavily references its pilot in its finale, then you should be pretty happy with “Shadow of Death: The Book of War” (as I am and was).

Black Lightning has had an outstanding inaugural season, one that effectively wove together the crime fighting and day jobs and the personal lives of the Pierce family, making sure that family always came first.

While I praised the series early on for always putting character development before plot, things got a little messier as we went into the finale.

But the show has still emerged …

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