Today's "Black Lightning" takes place in Freeland, a fictional city with a skyrocketing crime rate, courtesy of a large gang called the 100. Although his success as the principal of an inner-city ...

Black Lightning is getting a spinoff, with the CW developing a backdoor pilot around the Painkiller character. Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders See All Painkiller will ...

‘Black Lightning’ Review: A Fantastic Villain Helps Give This CW Superhero Show a Promising Start. Cress Williams and Marvin Jones III are two on-camera highlights in the early going of The CW ...

Williams’s Black Lightning/Jefferson Pierce is a retired hero when we meet him. He’s put the cool suit and mask away and has convinced himself that the best way to help his city of Freeland ...

Black Lightning Recap With Spoilers: Jefferson and Lynn Reach Their Breaking Point in The Book of Resistance: Chapter One: Knocking on Heaven’s Door.

For Black History Month, the CW's superhero series introduced Wayne Brady's Gravedigger, a formidable new foe who challenges Jefferson Pierce's MLK-like philosophy.

Like Luke Cage, the Black Lightning comics were born of the blaxploitation era; unlike season 1 of Luke Cage, the show never forgets that it is a superhero show, and people want to see superhero ...