- Premiere:January 9th, 2011
- Genre:Action, Drama
- Official Site:nbc.com/the-cape, facebook.com/NBCTheCape, twitter.com/NBCTheCape
"The Cape" is a one-hour drama series starring David Lyons ("ER") as Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife, Dana (Jennifer Ferrin, "Life on Mars") and son, Trip (Ryan Wynott, "Flash Forward"). Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Faraday becomes "The Cape" his son's favorite comic book superhero -- and takes the law into his own hands. Rounding out the cast are James Frain ("The Tudors") as billionaire Peter Fleming - The Cape's nemesis - who moonlights as the twisted killer: Chess; Keith David ("Death at a Funeral") as Max Malini, the ringleader of a circus gang of bank robbers who mentors Vince Faraday and trains him to be The Cape; Summer Glau ("Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") as Orwell, an investigative blogger who wages war on crime and corruption in Palm City; and Dorian Missick ("Six Degrees") as Marty Voyt, a former police detective and friend to Faraday.
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Jeremy741
I'll miss Summer Glau every week on my TV screen.
I feel really bad for the actors and crew.
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Jeremy741
There was nothing quite like The Cape on TV RIGHT NOW and it's a pity that it didn't get a fair shot.
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Jeremy741
Did The Cape use tropes commonly found in all superhero stories? Yes. Did it borrow from familiar heroes like Batman to build it's own mythology. Sure. All great storytellers take from stories before them. That's the evolving nature of TV and film and books and comics, and name any other medium. You take something that's been seen before and try and put your own spin on it. Tell me another show that's on TV that incorporated a whimsical carnival with diverse participants, a meta-metropolis, and a caped crusader? That's right - there isn't one. Batman isn't a show on TV, Heroes was cancelled, and...well I believe I've already made my point.
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Jeremy741
The Cape was fun live action comic that made me laugh.
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Jeremy741
Personally I loved the show and am sad to hear the news. Great photography and story that needed time to build.
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