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Last night's finale of Daredevil: Born Again felt largely like a setup for season two. I guess that's not surprising given the troubled production history that saw the show handed from one creative vision to another. There were aspects I liked about the finale but somehow it all added up to something less satisfying than the finales on the original Daredevil series.

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Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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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.

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Daredevil is available on Disney+.

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Okay, I guess I can't put off writing about Wednesday's Daredevil any longer. I hate writing negative reviews but in for a penny, in for a pound. It's particularly disappointing because I had high hopes for this show. Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk is truly one of the best things about not just the MCU but comic book film and television of the last thirty years. But once again, Disney was under the impression they could cut corners in one of the most essential aspects of any production: the writing.

"Art for Art's Sake" (Walter Pater is rolling in his grave) was written by Jill Blankenship who also wrote the abysmal episode three, "The Hollow of His Hand", so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

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Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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Two new episodes of Daredevil: Born Again premiered on Disney+ last night and the contrast between the two of them most tellingly shows the difference between the show as it was originally filmed and the show as it was retooled. Episode five feels like it fits with the bulk of Marvel Disney+ content while episode six feels much closer in tone to the Daredevil Netflix series. You can as plainly see the reason for the retooling as episode six is far and away the superior of the two. But I found episode five's echos of Disney+'s previous Marvel content to be unexpectedly depressing. I imagined what could have been if that streaming universe had been of higher quality.

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Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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Good grief, last night's Daredevil: Born Again was bad. It's no wonder even Disney realised the show needed to be drastically retooled--this was clearly an episode from before Dario Scardapane was brought in. It might be too little too late, though, given how weak the show's been in the ratings. Why, Disney? Why don't you value writing?

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Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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It's finally here; the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again premiered on Disney+ last night. It doesn't really hit the ground running, in fact these two episodes have a real swiss cheese quality with lots of holes. But showrunner Dario Scardapane, who came in to reconfigure the show after half of it had already been shot by a showrunning team Disney decided was inferior, may well fill those holes with--I don't know, brie, pimento, something good. Scardapane was a writer on Punisher, a show within the same formerly Netflix MCU universe. So he probably knows what he's doing and, by the way, don't watch Daredevil: Born Again until you've seen the first three seasons of the old Daredevil (I wouldn't read the rest of my review, either, if I were you).

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Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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I finished watching the third season of Daredevil last night and wow. What an amazing season. The first two seasons were great but the third easily surpasses them. Fewer of the character conflicts and developments feel artificially forced, instead it feels like we have portraits of truly tormented and driven characters intricately blended together.

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Which is all to say, the upcoming Disney+ Daredevil series has a lot to live up to. I'm hoping for the best.

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Word came recently that Charlie Cox will be reprising his role as Daredevil from the Netflix series. Now, of course, he'll be on Disney+, hopefully with something approaching the quality of his previous appearances, despite Disney once again cheaping out on the writing staff. Showrunners on the new series will be Matt Corman and Chris Ord, whose previous credits aren't nearly as illustrious as the legendary first season of Daredevil. News of the new series came at around the time I finally finished watching 2017's The Defenders, the big team up event series that followed the first two seasons of Daredevil and the first seasons of Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage. The Defenders had some strong moments but overall it was disappointing.

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+ On March 16, the Marvel Netflix shows will all appear on the streaming service, meaning the whole Defenders crew. If anybody's looking to arrange a community rewatch, now might be the time ;)

+ March 30th Moon Knight premieres! Anybody up for doing the community reaction posts? (due to my job, I'm eternally not available for this) The Best Marvel Moon Knight Comics to Read Before the MCU Series from CBR looks to be a good comics primer, and not with a long list of things to read.

+ May 25th Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres. And it seems composer John Williams has returned to write the score!

+ Ms Marvel is still listed as TBD Summer 2022, and She-Hulk a general 2022 TBD. Ironheart seems to have slipped over to a 2023 TBD (starts filming in June 2022).

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Entries tagged with show: daredevil

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