Cloak & Dagger (Season Two)

A series brought to you on freeform (ABC spark in Canada); its showrunner Joe Pokaski who also served as a writer and became a first time director on the series. Created a show that was socially conscious, ensuring that the writing staff as well as its directors
(6 out of 10 would be female directors) researched the themes and topics they were going to explore, rather than going for a villain of the week. With the understanding of a limited budget the show progresses with visual vectors of the mind. We see dream states of the leading characters as they enter  memories or see hopes and fears of others.  The show introduces us to a dark dimension, something introduced in Agent Carter and Agents of Shield, while these shows gave us physical properties of the dimension,  elements that exists in this space, and an actual planetary world in one instance. Cloak and Dagger explore it as a small pocket universe that runs on a subconscious level of those who enter it as a means to cope or understand their environment. A Loa a powerful entity that resides inside it, presents itself as a familiar face to each person who enter the dimension. It chooses to provide information, it sets up rules and conditions that allow travelers to move about, and accepts offerings as trade to allow the traveler gain certain means or move about quicker.

Season One introduces us to the existence of a light force and a dark force, exposure to dark forces turns people to 'terrors', a craze version  not too different on the social mechanics of a violent zombie. Season Two introduces us to two people exposed to  light and dark force. Detective Brigid O'Reilly who gets exposed, then falls in the waters of Louisiana only to be physically split into two people, one that harbors anger and rage while the other more timid. 
The series is broken up into two villains, Mayhem is introduced in the first half, the alternate version of Detective O'Reilly.  The character was introduced in issue #1 of Cloak and Dagger back in October of 1983, and was a character in pursuit of the duo that later became an ally. The story differs when she and fellow officers where killed by a noxious gas and was brought to life by Cloak and Dagger, while in the series she is killed by gunshot by Detective Connors and saved by the infusion of light and dark energies that split her in two.  Creating Mayhem a rage induced vigilante bent on going after those associated with her demise. She would end up being an ally for Cloak and Dagger, but as showrunner  Joe Pokaski phrased it in an interview, O'Reilly is the shows Killmonger.  As the viewer, we understand and sympathize from her circumstance, but not necessarily agree with her methods of response.
In the second half we are given Andre (D'Spayre) Deschaine and Lia Dewan councilors at a support group. In Andre's own words 90% of those who comes his way he helps with counseling, choices, and shelter, and the 10% who he can't be helped, they help him.  He drains all their hope to free him of his migraine, and provides for his side business of sex trafficking. Andre Deschaine was a man on the verge of suicide, suffering from debilitating migraines that prevented him from playing music which he passionately loved, and experiencing a great sense of loss when the club he played at burned down. Was unaware of the oil rig explosion when he jumped off a bridge and was given a power to drain people of their hope to alleviate his own migraines for a period.
The show introduces us to the concept of a veve a spiritual drawing to lead him to his Loa and eventual ascension to a god-hood, so he can be free of his migraine and control a legion of followers without hope.
The show tackles social injustices with incredible amount of understanding and respect, by delivering real world issues and laying out the systemic problems of these issues. The season was created at period of the #metoo and #blacklivesmatter movement of 2019. It has an echoing effect for 2020, with George Floyd, Harvey Weinstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell.