Hello everyone and welcome to another Black Lightning catchup post, this time looking at season 1 episode 9, The Book of Little Black Lies. After falling out with Gambi last episode, the mysterious tailor still managed to get his new costume to Anissa and it looked very stylish. It looked more armoured and bulky as well as being in a similar style to her dad’s. She rocked the look very well and the whole end sequences was great. The music was on point as the father and daughter strutted their stuff to deal with a whole load of arms dealers. They had good banter too, toeing the line between joking and serious very well. It is weird how much I enjoy seeing the heroes just plough through the bad guys with little trouble. I guess that shows how likeable the characters; you don’t want to see them in any sort of real trouble. They even did the whole walking away from an exploding building without turning back thing!

The reveals continued to come thick and fast as Anissa not only revealed her own powers to Jennifer, but also outed herself as Thunder and her dad as Black Lightning. They are trimming the fat on all of this family drama as Jennifer forgave them all for keeping it a secret by the end of the episode. You could call this rushed, but they managed to set up the more purposeful storyline for Jennifer which is better than just being mad. It is how she deals with her powers while just wanting a normal life. She doesn’t want to save the world all of the time like Anissa. I am intrigued at what happens as at the very least Anissa is going to try and push her into being a hero. Whether she decides to suit up herself though is a decision that I am interested to see.

There was no Tobias or Lala this episode and that was my only real complaint. They don’t seem to know who the main bad guy is and seem to like to use generic goons a lot to show off the power of the heroes. Like I said, I don’t mind that but they could at least show the named villains doing something else off in the shadows. They only need to fight the heroes once at the end of the season but they need to be properly built up as both a threat and interesting before that and they did not do that here.

DD Rating: 8.25/10