My knowledge of the Marvel superduo Cloak and Dagger is admittedly limited. I have one, maybe two comics they make a guest appearance in and I know at least one of them isn’t from the main continuity. So I can’t really judge the adaptation quality of Freeform’s new series. I do have to ask, based on episode one alone, if this is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, like other live-action TV and streaming shows have been. Freeform is owned by Disney the same as Marvel and ABC, while Netflix was just an arrangement before Disney decided to start their own streaming service. While this doesn’t take place in New York, that didn’t stop Agents Of SHIELD or Agent Carter.
This series is set in New Orleans, or so I believe. Marvel doesn’t have a lot of fictional cities unlike DC so I’d be surprised if they changed that for this show. Still, moving them away from New York, where most of the supers in the MCU still come from, does allow them to develop apart from the others until it’s a good time for them to meet. The show had a two-hour premiere, which I assume means they played the first two episodes, but I only recorded the first one and all of my thoughts are based solely on that episode, “First Light”.
