{"id":18972,"date":"2021-03-26T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=18972"},"modified":"2021-03-26T19:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:12:13","slug":"the-cw-schedules-black-lighting-spin-off-pilot-painkiller-for-monday-april-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/26\/the-cw-schedules-black-lighting-spin-off-pilot-painkiller-for-monday-april-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The CW Schedules &#8220;Black Lighting&#8221; Spin-Off Pilot &#8220;Painkiller&#8221; for Monday, April 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18973\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Painkiller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Painkiller.jpg 650w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Painkiller-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Khalil Payne (Jordan Calloway) is a young man ridden with the guilt of his troubled past from his former life in Freeland City, where, as a super-enhanced killing machine known as Painkiller, he was both a member of Tobias Whale&#8217;s gang and a weapon of Agent Odell and the shadowy ASA.<\/p>\n<p>PAINKILLER &#8211; Khalil Payne (Jordan Calloway) is a young man ridden with the guilt of his troubled past from his former life in Freeland City, where, as a super-enhanced killing machine known as Painkiller, he was both a member of Tobias Whale&#8217;s gang and a weapon of Agent Odell and the shadowy ASA. 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