SEASON PREMIERE: The expansive universe of Marvel Comics TV series on Netflix is an ambitious but mixed bag: Daredevil is quite good, Iron Fist is quite bad, and Luke Cage, which returns today with a new season, is somewhere in between. The best of all these shows is Marvel’s Jessica Jones, which transcends the genre with its character study of an emotionally scarred and wounded woman (played so well by Krysten Ritter) with enhanced abilities she doesn’t even want. Jessica Jones and Daredevil both take place in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen; Luke Cage, starring Mike Colter in the title role, is set farther uptown, in Harlem. All these characters, along with Luke Cage and others, met for The Defenders, and displayed their relative strengths, as characters and actors, in that temporary team-up. At the end of it, Luke had embraced his identity as a local hero – and his sidekick Misty, played by Simone Messick, was severely wounded but not killed. For Season 2 of Luke Cage, they’re both back – as is Alfre Woodward, one of my long-time favorite actresses, playing the show’s very formidable primary villain. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.