7 Things Iron Fist Season 2 MUST Learn From Luke Cage Season 2
4. Put Everything On The Line
Luke Cage's second series followed the wise and often overlooked princple of intensifying everything covered in the first series. Plus all the mildy niggling elements of season one had been fully repaired.
In this outing, relationships, reputations and lives right across the board, were rendered unsafe. All bets were truly off. It was a hell of a ride.
The scope for this state of vulnerability could be massive in Danny Rand’s world of corporate/family instability, with the stakes higher than in any story covered in Season 1. Danny has the perfect girlfriend, and incredible powers in both the physical and business sense. Therefore these are surely the foundations which must be shook in order to dissect the psyche of our immortal hero.
Likewise, characters with an intense level of vulnerability play turbulently with other characters in the same state. So maybe then it would be a good idea to give the whole cast the same air of fragility. Audiences start to see true colours, drama flows naturally, perfectly linear narrative is compromised by tense people making bad decisions, and as a result, great TV writes itself.