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dpanter
A solid take on the blind crusader's adventures in the very beginning of his career as a hero, MCU style. Overall very well made show, strong cast performances with Vincent D'Onofrio in absolute top form.
My only gripe is the sometimes ridiculous fight choreography. Of course, you would expect a lot of fighting in this show and it's quite graphical violence.
Recommended. 8 years 9 months ago -
essaywhu
The show seems to have slipped a bit in the script department in the second season. The Punisher and Elektra are great characters, but I just couldn't bring myself to care about The Hand. Hopefully, there will be less ninjas in the next season. Also, some of the courtroom scenes were written pretty badly. They didn't even try for realism. Murdock starts making a speech while questioning Frank Castle on the stand and nobody even objects. It would have passed in a children's cartoon, but most viewers are adults and have a bit of understanding of how court cases work.
The show is still highly watchable. I just hope they address flaws like these in the next season. 7 years 11 months ago -
Siskoid
Season 1: Daredevil Season 1 was... fine, I guess. For a character that's one of my favorite Marvel heroes, I should be more enthusiastic. I suppose part of the problem is the look of the show. It's so damn DARK. I don't mean the content, I mean the high-contrast visuals that manage to create deep pools of darkness even in the daytime. Was this an attempt to plunge us into a blind man's world? Or just to hide the dodgy fight choreography (it gets better, but early on, it doesn't match the standard set by Arrow, though I appreciate the pseudo-realism). Full points for making Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk mirrors of each other - losing their fathers, trying to save Hell's Kitchen, growing into the Daredevil/Kingpin personae, and both struggling with the morality of their actions. That said, it goes on a bit long, and could probably have worked in 10 episodes instead of 13.
Season 2: Daredevil's second season hasn't fixed the first's biggest problem for me, its murky over-saturated look. It's one thing to create an atmosphere, or Noir, but when facial expressions and even action beats are undecipherable, it's gone too far. But plot-wise, I think I may have enjoyed this season more than the first. Wilson Fisk may have been a stand-out character, but the pacing here is just so much better. The show introduces (or re-introduces) an antagonist every 4 episodes, two of which are heroes used to highlight the difficulty Daredevil has chosen to work with (non-lethal means). In the process, we get a Punisher that is richer and more complex than those of the films (and I might argue, than the Punisher comics I've read). As for Elektra, I don't think Matt's passion for her is earned, and I never cared about the ninja stuff Frank Miller inserted into the book, so that's far from my favorite story strand here. Still, I liked her more than I thought I would. Fans of the Kingpin's are well served too, as he returns with a promise to turn a future season into "Rebirth". The costume is finally cool too. Shame about the lighting.
Season 3: We all knew Neflix Daredevil (or as I often called it, "The Kingpin Show") was heading for the Born Again storyline, but its third season brings its own wrinkles to the tale. There's the addition of Agent Nadeem, a truly complex character, to the mix. There's the willingness to experiment with the format several ways, as with the surreal way Fisk's investigation of Dex is presented, the single shot escape from prison, and spending most of an episode telling Karen Page's back story. There's an intriguing (if ultimately frustrating) take on Bullseye. But mostly, it's how they take the trope I most disdain in genre TV, the Big Conspiracy, and make it work. It works because we already know the answer. It's all Fisk's doing, and it's just masterful. Everything goes wrong because the Kingpin's manipulation of the city is nearly superhuman. It's beautiful. This is how you play a human villain in a superhero story, even though it's all quite low level here. After this, you could well imagine Fisk taking down bigger guns like Iron Man or She-Hulk. Daredevil ends on its best season. 6 years 8 months ago