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The Cape is an American one-hour superhero drama series. It premiered on NBC during the 2010–2011 television season as a midseason replacement beginning with a 2-hour pilot episode on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 9 pm Eastern and Pacific Time. An encore is scheduled for Monday, January 10, with follow-up episodes continuing on Monday evenings in the 9 pm timeslot beginning January 17.

Here’s the thing: All of the above might have made an OK premise pilot, an episode of television devoted entirely to telling us how the situation for the show came to be. Premise pilots aren’t preferable, but sometimes, you need to have that origin story, need to get the backstory out of the way up front. But The Cape rushes all of that, cramming it largely into the first half of the first hour of tonight’s two-hour premiere (the second hour is episode two and is mostly about things not dealt with in the pilot, including some sort of super-villainous super-conspiracy or something). The second half is distinctly less impressive, focused as it is on bargain bin variety superhero exploits. The Cape heads out into the night to confront criminals. He does a fine job of this, of course, and Chess realizes he’s out there and he becomes a folk hero (or we can assume he does, given the final beats of the pilot) and blah, blah, blah. This creates a pilot that is cluttered but is hilariously cluttered. Just as soon as one thing’s done, the show is on to the next, with little sense of pacing or creating believable character motivations.Yeeh, I fully assumed that it was a show about a masked crime-fighter who fought crime on a peninsula, or at least a promontory. That it was literally his uniform seemed way too on-the-head. But it sounds like that's exactly the kind of thing the show was trying to do (for some reason). In a nod of self-awareness at how stupid the name is, one of the characters actually mentions how stupid the name is, "but you can work on it!"



This show is like candy corn. It's awful, and has no redeeming features at all, leaves a horrible taste in your mouth, and yet you can't stop eating it.

But this cape is made of spider silk, which, as everyone knows, is not only bulletproof and usable as a prehensile limb, but also immune to the everyday problems wearing a cape would cause. Learn the science, people.