The Cape

In fictional Palm City former cop Vince Faraday is framed for murder. Believed to be dead, he takes on the persona of his son’s favorite comic book superhero ‘The Cape’ to clear his name and reunite with his family. Together with a group of former carnies, he fights against the corrupt police, politicians, and ARK Corporation. Unlike the comics, costumed heroes and villains, such as Chess and Scales, do not have superpowers. Fearless investigative blogger Orwell joins in the fight not just with words, as she tends to get violent. The Cape comes from Universal Media Studios and the producing team of Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun. (taken from here)

Too much you might ask given the picture in this article. The Answer is:  a definitive maybe! The concept is simple: Man gets convicted for a crime he did not do … Man decides it’s payback time … Man finds a cape … Man has some kind of a  gay superhero fantasy … Man trains for 2 days … Man IS a superhero.

That being said it is really hard to tell if the show is going to continue because of the many cancellations on NBC lately. I guess you should give it a shot because the interesting part is the whole … I am a superhero but I do need a psychiatrist thing.  That could be interesting. David Lyons plays the hero.

The bad boy played by James Frain comes of a little to unrealistic when considering the effort that was taken to create a hero you can relate to. I guess the money ran out 😉

I’ll watch how it evolves and hope that Orwell gets a lot of  screen time  ;D

Tell me what you think.