Watch the trailer for Raising Dion, Netflix’s new take on the superhero show

We’re living in the Age of the Superhero. From The Boys on Amazon to The CW’s lineup of superhero shows to Marvel and Warner Bros. battling for dominance at the box office (spoiler: Marvel is winning), the caped buggers are absolutely everywhere.

With superheroes so popular, everyone is looking for new angles. What about a superhero show that’s actually about racial violence? Enter HBO’s Watchmen. How about a villain origin story based on the 1970s-era movies of Martin Scorsese? Hello, Joker.

It looks like we’re moving away from the giddy splendor of the Avengers movies to something more gritty and grounded. Netflix is throwing its hat into the ring with Raising Dion, about a single mom raising a kid latent superheroic abilities. The series comes from the mind of executive producer Michael B. Jordan, who played a superhero himself back in Chronicle…and in that failed Fantastic Four reboot…and he was Killmonger in Black Panther. He knows from what he speaks.

Anyway, check out the trailer:

And here’s Netflix’s official synopsis:

"Raising Dion follows the story of a woman named Nicole (Alisha Wainwright), who raises her son Dion (newcomer Ja’Siah Young) after the death of her husband, Mark (Michael B. Jordan). The normal dramas of raising a son as a single mom are amplified when Dion starts to manifest several mysterious, superhero-like abilities. Nicole must now keep her son’s gifts secret with the help of Mark’s best friend Pat (Jason Ritter), and protect Dion from antagonists out to exploit him while figuring out the origin of his abilities."

Netflix already has The Umbrella Academy pulling in fans, but in an Age of the Superhero, it can’t hurt to have friends. Raising Dion drops on October 4.

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And as long as we’re talking superheroes, Sony put together a trailer for Night Monkey, the nickname Spider-Man went by during his European vacation in Far From Home. Check it out:

Would watch.

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