Daredevil's Blue Rose Case

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That's the jazz standard referenced by "Isle of Joy", the new Daredevil from Wednesday. The episode basically satisfied me, even when a few things happened I thought were silly.

The episode began with a shot of a blue rose accompanied by some ethereal vocals. Since Twin Peaks just turned 35 years old this week, I wondered if this was a reference to the blue roses featured in that mythos. Of course, the point of the blue rose on Twin Peaks is that it does not occur in nature. So what are these artificially coloured roses doing at Riker's Island?

I like how they're writing Heather as kind of a jerk now. It's probably because they're moving her out of the way ahead of Karen's return but, whatever the reason, it's nice for Matt to have her as a foil. We get that classic super secret identity dilemma when Heather demands he give her attention . Meanwhile, what distracts him is Tony Dalton's character, the Swordsman, being threatened by Wilson Fisk. It was kind of weak that Swordsman and Fisk didn't fight then and there but it's nice watching Tony Dalton work, as much as I didn't like his character on Better Call Saul. He's much better suited to playing the Swordsman.

I liked how furious Matt was that Fisk was trying to get to him through Heather, furious enough to throw caution to the wind. But why the hell did he take a bullet for Fisk? Maybe it was instinct.

Now that Fisk has survived an assassination attempt, the similarities between him and Trump are even more underlined. I'm not sure the show can say anything valuable by drawing that parallel but it's good drama by itself.

Daredevil is available on Disney+.