Spider-Noir drops Nicolas Cage into 1930s New York as Ben Reilly, a washed-up private eye haunted by his days as the city's lone superhero. The premise is classic noir: grimy streets, personal demons, crime that never sleeps. The Leans Progressive label is mild and largely structural. The most concrete driver is casting an Asian actress as Cat Hardy, a character traditionally depicted as white, without narrative comment. Otherwise the show keeps ideological ambitions quiet. Its period crime frame, individual-hero ethic, and absence of political, LGBTQ, religious, or family-values content pull the score back toward center. The label reflects a light diversity signal rather than any sustained progressive agenda.