Prime Video's Spider-Noir Is One of Its Best Comic-Book Series

Prime Video's Spider-Noir, created by Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, stars Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly — a jaded private investigator who once wore the mask as "The Spider." After a mysterious tragedy forces Ben to hang up his webs, he is drawn back into the role when he meets Cat Hardy (Li Jun Li).

The series quickly climbed the streamer’s charts and sits at #2 on the Top 10 TV list on FlixPatrol. The show leans fully into noir, with nearly every character operating in moral gray. Ben and Cat trade romantic tension and double crosses, especially after Cat’s lover Flint Marko (Jack Huston) appears, while villains such as Marko and Tombstone (Abraham Popoola) grapple with powers that are killing them.

Cage says his performance was "70 percent Bogart, and 30 percent Bugs Bunny... I was basically Mel Blanc doing Bogart, with that sarcastic sense of humor. But it’s a hundred percent me." Lamorne Morris plays Robbie Robertson, a crusading journalist who becomes a father-figure ally as Ben confronts Silvermane.

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