I'll be honest with you: I have superhero fatigue. I'm a little tired of seeing a plucky, likable guy (played by a plucky, likable guy in real life) with moral ambiguity, a dead or estranged significant other, and some kind of multiversal dilemma that culminates in a big ol' fight to the death with a predictable outcome. Enter Spider-Noir, which, from the very first line of the very first episode, wants to be the cure to your incurable superhero fatigue. You've heard of "With great power comes great responsibility," but how about, "With no power comes no responsibility?"
That's Ben Reilly for you: a hero that doesn't really feel all of the moralistic burden that comes with being a hero. He's a dude who solves mysteries (kind of badly) and wants to feel good. He's also played by a 62-year-old Nicolas Cage in his first lead television role, and it's not lost on me that this is the same man who played Ghost Rider, but always dreamed of being Kal-El from the planet Krypton.
