Thread:CirUmeUela/@comment-27496405-20180307074410/@comment-26838855-20180609102925

Deadpooled123 wrote: Isn't there a certain expectation with Netflix MCU show, like some of them are released a year ahead the MCU's timeline?

Daredevil s1 = 2015

Jessica Jones s1 = 2015

Daredevil s2 = 2015

Luke Cage s1 = 2015

The Punisher s1 = 2015-2016

Iron Fist s1 = 2016

The Defenders s1 = 2016

Luke Cage s2 = 2016

Daredevil s3 = 2016

The Punisher s2 = 2016

Iron Fist s2 = 2016/17

Jessica Jones s2 = 2017

Is there a predicament with when a television show is filmed to determine in accordance with the MCU timeline? Can be stated that Cloak & Dagger is likely set in 2017 ? Not exactly. There's more correlation with the time of filming than just "a year before release", and that's just with Netflix so far.
 * Daredevil: Season 1 - Middle of filming September 2014, released April 2015, set January-February 2015.
 * Jessica Jones: Season 1 - Middle of filming May 2015, released November 2015, set March-April 2015.
 * Daredevil: Season 2 - Middle of filming September 2015, released March 2016, set October-December 2015.
 * Luke Cage: Season 1 - Middle of filming December 2015, released September 2016, set November-December 2015.
 * Iron Fist: Season 1 - Middle of filming July 2016, released March 2017, set February-March 2016.
 * The Defenders: Season 1 - Middle of filming January 2017, released August 2017, set May 2016.
 * The Punisher: Season 1 - Middle of filming January 2017, released November 2017, set November-December 2016.
 * Jessica Jones: Season 2 - Middle of filming June 2017, released March 2018, set April-May 2017.

However, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is always within a few months of real time, and Runaways was pretty much set when it came out. So we don't know with Cloak & Dagger. I had assumed that it might well turn out to be set when it was filmed - the pilot was filmed in February 2017, and the rest filmed July-November 2017. But that approximation is only really relevant for guessing ahead of time - when it comes to the actual placements, only evidence is relevant.

The evidence is conflicting currently. We'll have to wait and see how the rest of the evidence adds up, because it's definitely February, but evidence suggests 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. The "8 years" dialogue suggests 2015 but evidence places it years later - so we'd probably have to stretch the dialogue, but it can't be stretched too much. If the show just ended now and we had to place it, I'd probably go with February 2016 - 8.67 years rather than "8", so stretching that a bit, having to assume rounding down, but fitting better with the phones and the "11 17" registration (which places it after November 2015), and what it looks like Tyrone's date of birth might be - but still sadly not fitting the in-universe music - at least it's a little bit closer, I guess. But I'm not making any conclusions yet, I'm hoping for more evidence to make it easier to dismiss some of the mistakes and place it more confidently.