Picture a Spider-Man who already hung up the webs five years ago, broke and grieving, working cheap cases in a 1930s New York that never existed. That is the pitch behind this neo-noir detour through the Spider-Verse, and it commits hard to the bit: black and white visuals, Dolby Atmos sound design, and a lead actor who has spent a career courting exactly this kind of pulpy melancholy.
Nicolas Cage plays Ben Reilly, and he has said he built the performance roughly seventy percent out of Humphrey Bogart. That ratio tracks. The show leans into detective-fiction furniture, trench coats, cigarette smoke, a secretary holding the office together, rather than superhero spectacle.
Reilly gets pulled into the orbit of Silvermane, the city's most powerful man, while a woman named Cat Hardy hires him to track down Flint Marko, who shares his strange abilities. His best friend, journalist Robbie Robertson, and secretary Janet Ruiz round out the small circle holding his life together.
The series pulls its hero from Spider-Man Noir, the alternate-universe Marvel comics, and treats the source as a mood board more than a strict script. It is also the first title in Sony's Spider-Man Universe to go live-action.
Eight episodes, around 45 minutes each, aired first on MGM+ before reaching Prime Video internationally. The show was cancelled after this single season. Worth a look for noir fans and Cage completists; less so for anyone wanting their Spider-Man stories wall-to-wall with web-slinging.
Picture a Spider-Man who already hung up the webs five years ago, broke and grieving, working cheap cases in a 1930s New York that never existed. That is the pitch behind this neo-noir detour through the Spider-Verse, and it commits hard to the bit: black and white visuals, Dolby Atmos sound design, and a lead actor who has spent a career courting exactly this kind of pulpy melancholy.
Nicolas Cage plays Ben Reilly, and he has said he built the performance roughly seventy percent out of Humphrey Bogart. That ratio tracks. The show leans into detective-fiction furniture, trench coats, cigarette smoke, a secretary holding the office together, rather than superhero spectacle.
Reilly gets pulled into the orbit of Silvermane, the city's most powerful man, while a woman named Cat Hardy hires him to track down Flint Marko, who shares his strange abilities. His best friend, journalist Robbie Robertson, and secretary Janet Ruiz round out the small circle holding his life together.
The series pulls its hero from Spider-Man Noir, the alternate-universe Marvel comics, and treats the source as a mood board more than a strict script. It is also the first title in Sony's Spider-Man Universe to go live-action.
Eight episodes, around 45 minutes each, aired first on MGM+ before reaching Prime Video internationally. The show was cancelled after this single season. Worth a look for noir fans and Cage completists; less so for anyone wanting their Spider-Man stories wall-to-wall with web-slinging.
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