![]() They both take place a short while after where Jessica Jones leaves off, meaning Daredevil Season 2 and Luke Cage briefly overlap with one another. Jump to Daredevil Season 2, which released before the first season of Luke Cage, and this is where it gets interesting. At the end of Jessica Jones, Luke’s bar burns down and he moves to Harlem. In Jessica Jones, we first meet Luke Cage. Next came Jessica Jones Season 1, pretty straightforward. Of course, Daredevil Season 1 comes first. So before we get into The Defenders timeline, let’s breeze through the order of events in the world of Marvel-Netflix. But, if it's Luke Cage you're missing, you can always relive Seasons 1 and 2 on Netflix at any time.Without closely watching Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Daredevil and Jessica Jones, understanding when The Defenders takes place could be confusing. As I mentioned earlier, you'll be able to catch more of Colter when his new drama, Evil (opens in new tab), debuts on CBS on Thursday, September 26 at 10 p.m. Well, while it was sad to not get any more of Luke Cage, at least Mike Colter wasn't as surprised as the rest of us were about the show ending. But again, I’m one of those people – I dunno if it’s pragmatic, pessimistic, whatever you want to call it – until I’m on set and I’m filming, I don’t believe anything. ![]() Everyone at Netflix, everyone at Marvel, so it was a foregone conclusion that we would start. Mike Colter also noted that while pretty much everyone else appeared to be on the same page about Luke Cage continuing and felt that the future for the show looked bright, he counted on his inner no-premature-chicken-counting nature to carry him through: This is a good lesson for everyone, thanks to Mike Colter: always trust your gut, people! Instead of sitting back and relying on the idea that because Luke Cage had been successful, it would surely be renewed for at least one more season, Colter paid attention to what he was feeling when he noticed that plans for Season 3 kept stalling, and just continued to work on other projects. Everyone thought it was a guaranteed success, so it was going to just be picked up. I’m always the kind of person never counts my chickens before they hatch. So, while that was happening, I was doing lots of little different projects and just working. I think I probably had a little more intel about it, because I felt like the delays and the postponement of our starting was starting to get a little bit habitual. Add to both of those things the fact that Netflix was clearly done being in the Marvel business, and the show was sunk. Apparently, Netflix wasn't happy with the first scripts for Season 3, and potential changes to the creatives behind Luke Cage couldn't be agreed on. While there were reports that Luke Cage lost two-thirds of its audience between Season 1 and Season 2 (amounting to a 59% dip in viewership), there were also rumblings that there was some behind the scenes tension between Netflix and the creative team. It’s always a possibility that something like that could come around again, just not right now. ![]() It’s unfortunate, but I feel like we left people wanting more instead of staying too long. They were in the process of greenlighting scripts, approving stuff like that and it just kept getting delayed, delayed, delayed for a lot of reasons. While at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, he spoke to CinemaBlend's Nick Venable and other journalists (after the CBS panel for his new fall show, Evil) about the process that led him to believe Luke Cage might be in trouble. Star Mike Colter offered his thanks to Marvel, the fans and Netflix after Luke Cage's cancellation, but it turns out that he wasn't caught off guard like so many of us viewers. ![]()
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