Looking daggers
Delving deeper into tandy and tyrone’s comic book origins
FEEDING FRENZY
tyrone’s comic book counterpart experienced an insatiable hunger that only tandy’s light could quench. that element won’t manifest in the series – at least, not yet. “I wanted to stay away from that in the first season,” notes Pokaski. “the idea that tyrone had this hunger, this feeling that only the light can cure, felt like it wasn’t the right thing when introducing them. If we are lucky enough, we are going to explore their need for each other in season two. We are just going to keep it balanced.”
CORPORATE GREED
the roxxon Corporation has already reared its ugly head in Iron Man, Agent Carter and Netflix’s Daredevil. Now, it serves as Cloak & Dagger’s Big Bad. “It was important for me to make sure the corporation was not necessarily evil, but chronically amoral,” Pokaski says. “It didn’t really matter if they were hurting anybody and they didn’t set out to hurt anybody. In dealing with New Orleans, I kept thinking about the things that city had to rise up against. two of the big ones were Katrina and Deepwater Horizon. We establish this city as a character and set it up as the city that doesn’t die. then, we have a corporation in the form of roxxon and some other bad people trying to kill it as best they could.”
WE SEE YOU, MCU
Besides roxxon, it was recently announced the series would feature Detective Brigid O’reilly and Father Delgado. those names should ring a bell for avid Cloak & Dagger readers, and Pokaski confirms that other nods to the marvel Universe are peppered throughout the episodes. “marvel was fantastic about letting us put more in there than I thought,” he says. “We will have some shout-outs to some characters. We will have some easter eggs well hidden. and, I even got to sneak in a couple of things they don’t know about.”
SPIRIT OF A HERO
tyrone and tandy don’t sport flashy costumes or battle superheroes, but Pokaski maintains they are still hero material. “I think they become heroes,” Pokaski says. “that’s the fun of it all. this first season they are just like us. the pilot episode picks up their story pretty well. In the second episode, we get a conscious choice for them to do the worst possible thing. Season one is a hero’s journey for tandy and tyrone, but they take their own time.”