‘Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger’ Season 2 Finale ‘Level Up’ Review: Free

Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger took to the streets on a quest to find a powerful enemy. While policing the gangs of New Orleans helped, the enemy still escaped. Now, the city experiences a mysterious phenomenon. With people suddenly disappear into thin air, the duo and their allies rush to find the one responsible.

On Thursday night’s episode of Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger, Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt) and Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) face their worst fears to reach Andre Deschaine (Brooklyn McLinn). Meanwhile, selected people from New Orleans mysteriously disappear. As this happens, Evita Fusilier (Noëlle Renée Bercy) and Detective Brigid O’Reilly/Mayhem (Emma Lahana) protect the doorway to the Darkforce Dimension.

Awkward

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It did not take long for Tandy and Tyrone to figure out what was happening. After hitting Andre with a light dagger, Andre collapsed, but his song continued to play, heard all over the town. The only person who could help them was Evita. Tyrone and Evita’s relationship changed ever since her ascension to Mambo. However, their interaction is understandable. To save Tyrone, Evita had to sacrifice both her career and accept her new duty, taking her fallen aunt’s place. Even as Tandy and Tyrone saved the day, Evita refused to say a word to Tyrone. Their relationship could have gone in a different direction. However, given the experiences they faced, it was bound to end. Indeed, Evita and Tyrone’s reunion in this season was only meant to give closure to their story.

Dark Path

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As soon as Tandy and Tyrone enter the Darkforce Dimension, or ‘The Rabbit Hole,’ as Evita calls it, they find the place in disarray. Andre’s rise to Godhood brought the realm to his knees, and he now had the power to bring people in to feed on their fears. Other than the chaos happening there, the real world, at least New Orleans, also experienced Andre’s terror. The duo made sense of the wrecked mall, and it was surprising to note that it was Tyrone’s first time there. After all, Tyrone was the path to that realm in the first place. The mysteries enveloped in that realm remain undiscovered, and perhaps the third season would continue to introduce and explain the Darkforce Dimension.

Fears

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So he could keep playing, Andre went inside Tyrone and Tandy’s heads, forcing them to face their worst fears. The personification of Tyrone’s fears was his ideal self: a straight-A student, putting his past behind to meet his parent’s expectations. On the other hand, Tandy’s fear took the form of her father, Nathan Bowen (Andy Dylan). Nathan represented Tandy’s resentment towards what became of their family as well as the things she found out about him by looking into her mother, Melissa Bowen’s (Andrea Roth) hopes.

The episode much focused on these personal battles. At some point, Tandy and Tyrone exchanged partners. That was a beautifully done sequence, having both Tyrone and Tandy scare the living daylights out of each other’s fears. However, it was still entirely up to them to get rid of their worries. Eventually, both Tandy and Tyrone came to accept their concerns, but they knew that they could control how these things affect them.

At that point, Andre lost. Despite the mind games and other tricks he played, Tandy and Tyrone pushed through to get rid of him and his influence. Andre was a powerful enemy, even dangerously powerful as this season approached its end, but so are Tandy and Tyrone. Also, it is fitting to watch Melissa, Mikayla (Cecilia Leal), and Mina Hess (Ally Maki) hold Andre down while Tandy and Tyrone finished him off. Just as Tandy said, it is time for the victims to ‘take away their power.’

Peace in New Orleans

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Tandy and Tyrone were not the only ones that became better people. Brigid finally let go of the loss of Fuchs (Lane Miller), thanks to the phantom figure being sent to attack her and Evita. Tyrone’s parents, Otis (Miles Mussenden) and Adina Johnson (Gloria Reuben) could finally live together in peace when the court acquits Tyrone. Also, Connors (J.D. Evermore), now dead, got the justice he deserved. The gangs in New Orleans started to get clean. Solomon (Joshua J. Williams) refused to take offers to traffic girls. Father Delgado (Jaime Zevallos) resumes his priestly duties, too. Even Lia (Dilshad Vadsaria), now free from Andre’s control, gets a chance to start over, although she is serving a prison sentence. Lastly, Evita assumed her duty as New Orlean’s Mambo, burying Andre in the cemetery.

Now that New Orleans is safe, it seems that the show is taking a different approach in its third season. Tandy and Tyrone leave the city together, hand in hand, ‘waffles,’ of course. After excellently giving closure to the show’s characters, regardless of how minor or significant their roles were, Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger broadens its horizons.

‘Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger’ Season 2 Finale ‘Level Up’ Final Verdict

Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger created a completely different identity for its second season. The overall plot improved. Also, much of the characters developed significantly. The premise in which the show runs was not changed, but rather, delivered differently. In the advent of the trend for TV Superheroes, Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger earns its spot in the lineup of brilliantly presented Comic book superheroes.