📺 Daredevil (TV Series)

Watched 2015 American web television series from Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

All episodes of the first season were released on Netflix on April 10, 2015, while the second season was released in its entirety on March 18, 2016. They were met with positive reviews. In July 2016, the series was renewed for a third season, which was released on October 19, 2018. A spin-off series, centered on Bernthal’s character Frank Castle / Punisher and titled The Punisher, was ordered by Netflix in April 2016. On November 29, 2018, Netflix canceled Daredevil. Daredevil, along with the other Marvel Netflix series, is set to leave Netflix on March 1, 2022, following Disney regaining the rights to the series. D’Onofrio and Cox would reprise their roles as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin and Murdock in MCU productions produced by Marvel Studios, starting with Hawkeye and Spider-Man: No Way Home (both 2021), respectively.

I came upon Daredevil after watching The Punisher. I did not really know much about the characters, but really liked the moral questions raised throughout.

Daredevil excels as a moral masterpiece because of its plethora of characters, each one with a unique set of motivations, worldviews, and principles. As a devout Catholic, Matt Murdock struggles to maintain his faith in a life that pushes him deeper into a world of violence and death. Foggy Nelson is an upcoming lawyer torn apart between his devotion to his best friend Matt and serving the oppressed in his community and his own personal ambitions for his career and family. Karen Page attempts to find meaning in a life that keeps being haunted by the past she keeps running away from. The stories of these three, along with those around them, weave together in a way that keeps you thrilled for the next episode yet leaves you asking more questions.

One of the things that I liked is the way in which the series developed characters, such as Wilson Fisk. It is interesting to compare this with the portrayal of Fisk in Hawkeye. Disney’s Marvel series’ definitely have a different feel to those developed for Netflix. They are often a shorter run and do not necessarily build out the characters and plots in the same manner.

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