Taking place five months after the events of Jessica Jones, Cage moves among the shadows not wanting to draw attention, he has found a job working for his late wife’s father, at Pop’s barbershop during the day and as a dishwasher after hours at a night club called Harlem’s Paradise to make ends meet. The night he is asked to cover for an absent bartender, his life is forever altered.
Showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker blends music with a compelling
drama over 13 episodes. As an
inside heist sparks a war between the Stoke’s family who
are the town’s top gangster and his council woman sister, the Puerto Rican gang looking
to buy the Stokes’ guns, a mysterious gun supplier named Diamondback and his
Lieutenant named Shades , with the people of Harlem becoming collateral damage
in the process. 
Cheo Hodari Coker
What was set to be a
harmonious trade between factions ends in a vicious bloody reckoning to reclaim
what is perceived to be rightfully theirs. Compounding the unrest is Stoke’s Lieutenant
named Tone and his ambitious misfortune; Tone’s ambition leads to a domino of
effect of crooked cops, murders and cover ups, and the inevitable showdown
between the rising hero of Harlem Luke Cage and the most dangerous man to
threaten all of Harlem Diamondback.
Carrying on from season one of Jessica Jones; Cage continues to mourn the loss of his wife Reva. In his journey he is joined by nurse Claire Temple, to discover the secret of his unbreakable skin, and what truly went on behind the scenes at Seagate prison. In that process, he learns about an unspoken family secret that has carried over a deception making him a wanted fugitive.
Each episode features a different musical act performing an entire song, with the inter-cut of characters overlooking and carrying on with their story arcs. Music becomes more profound as each episode is named after a Gang Starr song. Coker is careful to curate a cultural renaissance of music and the art that is Harlem in each episode, coming out of watching the series, in Cokers own words 'the audience would have experienced a full album of music'.
Exploring race and politics that fuel the story to move forward, Coker was aware of the black lives matter movement; not to the critical mass of 2020/2021, but the racial undertones that has existed for generations. The show deposits how does a bulletproof black man change the overall ecosystem of his neighborhood? From the police force to street level crime, and the many causes and effects of such an implication.
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