Marvel's Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 9 Cloak & Dagger Review: Back Breaker (Season 1 Episode 9)

Cloak & Dagger Review: Back Breaker (Season 1 Episode 9)

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Cloak & Dagger’s penultimate episode, Season 1 Episode 9, “Back Breaker,” sets the dynamic for the finale as the fight arrives in town, leaving Tandy and Tyrone to focus on what they’re going to do next.

Between Evita’s aunt, Evita finding the divine pairing, Mina being attacked, and Tyrone and Tandy collectively losing their minds, there’s a lot to dissect.

I don’t like that Tandy is spiraling out after doing good for a hot minute. Right after she figures out that she can steal hopes she begins to lose her motivation and drive to do anything. I like that she’s developing her powers, but now it seems like it’s biting her in the rear if she has to continue to feed off others hopes to survive.

Marvel's Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 9
MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER – “Back Breaker” – When triumph turns sour, both Tandy and Tyrone regress back to their old ways. But after everything that has happened, and actions that have been set into motion, can they truly go back to the way things once were? Meanwhile, Det. OÕReilly tries to deal with the recent fall out. This episode of “MarvelÕs Cloak & Dagger” airs Thursday, July 26 (8:00 – 9:00 p.m. EDT) on Freeform. (Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani)
OLIVIA HOLT

No matter what happens in Tandy’s life she continues to resort back to hurting the people who only want to help and let her succeed. Stealing Mina’s hopes from her even after she offers Tandy a job with Roxxon to continue her dad’s work is a messed up thing to do.

Tandy is ruining all of her relationships right now, and with the storm coming she’s going to need as much help as she can get. I don’t know what’s going through her mind, but destroying Liam’s hopes of wanting to marry her is a complete shit move.

What makes Tandy even more of an ass for ruining Liam’s dreams is she bailed him out, made him think things were going to turn around, and then took his happiest dreams all for nothing. Liam stealing all of the money that Tandy hides inside the church is the exact kind of revenge that she deserves.

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Marvel's Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 9
MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER – “Back Breaker” – When triumph turns sour, both Tandy and Tyrone regress back to their old ways. But after everything that has happened, and actions that have been set into motion, can they truly go back to the way things once were? Meanwhile, Det. O’Reilly tries to deal with the recent fall out. This episode of “Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger” airs Thursday, July 26 (8:00 – 9:00 p.m. EDT) on Freeform. (Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani)
CARL LUNDSTEDT, OLIVIA HOLT

As far as Tyrone goes, hell to the yes for him finally standing up for himself to everyone who continues to try and tell him what he should and shouldn’t be feeling. The pastor thinks that he’s helping Tyrone by giving him some tough love, but he ends up hurting himself when Tyrone looks at his darkest memories.

I knew there was something off about the pastor, but now it all makes sense. He killed a little girl in a drunk driving accident and the bells of the church called out to him as he sat in his car, continuing to drink after the crash.

I feel like he thinks his faith won’t allow him to get back to that point, but at the same time he’s still secretly buying bottles of alcohol and drinking his sorrows away. He’s weak and he’s scared because Tyrone is calling him out and putting it all on the table.

Marvel's Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 9
MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER – “Back Breaker” – When triumph turns sour, both Tandy and Tyrone regress back to their old ways. But after everything that has happened, and actions that have been set into motion, can they truly go back to the way things once were? Meanwhile, Det. OÕReilly tries to deal with the recent fall out. This episode of “MarvelÕs Cloak & Dagger” airs Thursday, July 26 (8:00 – 9:00 p.m. EDT) on Freeform. (Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani)
AUBREY JOSEPH

My only hopes for O’Reilly is that she gets the chance to kill Connors in cold blood in the finale next week. She may have been drunk when she attacks Connors in the bar, but for two police officers to pull her off after one hit and then allow Connors to beat her on the floor is utter gutlessness.

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It’s apparent that Connors is the one who killed Fuchs, and not one cop in the bar can turn that fact away, yet they still take up for him. Rats stick with rats.

The finale is guaranteed to be an hour full of insaneness as Tyrone flees from the police due to Connors blaming him for Fuchs’s death. Mina is on the run from psycho workers who got blasted from the faulty pipe, Tandy must save her mom from Scarborough’s mercenary, and Evita finally knows who the divine pairing is.

Marvel's Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 9
MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER – “Back Breaker” – When triumph turns sour, both Tandy and Tyrone regress back to their old ways. But after everything that has happened, and actions that have been set into motion, can they truly go back to the way things once were? Meanwhile, Det. OÕReilly tries to deal with the recent fall out. This episode of “MarvelÕs Cloak & Dagger” airs Thursday, July 26 (8:00 – 9:00 p.m. EDT) on Freeform. (Freeform/Alfonso Bresciani)
MILES MUSSENDEN, GLORIA REUBEN, AUBREY JOSEPH

Other Thoughts:

  • It may have taken years to happen, but it’s a good thing that Tyrone’s mom is being absolutely transparent with him for the first time.
  • I wish that Liam had been more involved in the season, rather than being locked up the whole time.
  • I can already tell that Evita and her aunt are going to get themselves in the middle of all the drama, possibly making things worse.
  • Could Evita be supernatural or does it just come from her aunt? Either way, it’s pretty sweet how she stops Tandy from stealing her hopes and breaks the illusion.

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Cloak & Dagger airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Freeform.

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Cade Taylor is a television and film critic living in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a Senior Writer for Tell-Tale TV. His love for television developed at a young age, with a concentration on queer stories, sitcoms, teen dramas, and science fiction thrillers. In addition, he works full-time as a news producer, telling the stories of Missourians and helming "Produced in the Bi-State," a segment spotlighting actors, musicians, and entertainers from the St. Louis area. He can be reached by email at cade@telltaletv.com.