Meanwhile, an incarcerated Wilson Fisk learns that the love of his life, Vanessa Marianna ( Ayelet Zurer) will be charged as an accessory to his crimes as soon as the FBI can track her down. (Make your own "old habits die hard" joke here.) But his faith is more crushed than his body the Matt Murdock we meet is pissed at God, and when he finally does return to the streets-far too soon, as you'll see-its not in his red superhero suit but in a more ragged version of his black season one ninja suit that he fabricates himself using old material found in a church basement. Matt's in awful shape the building collapse rattled his senses, doing away with his world-on-fire "sight" and rendered him a much more human level of blind. Following the collapse of Midland Circle, a barely-alive Matt Murdock is picked up a landfill and deposited by Father Lantom ( Peter McRobbie) in a Hell's Kitchen orphanage for medical attention, the same orphanage Matt was raised in as a child under the no-nonsense eye of Sister Maggie Grace (a fantastically dry-witted Joane Whalley). The first six episodes I saw aren't quite a perfect Bullseye-don't worry, we'll get to him-but it's darn near close, which is pretty impressive for a blind man who just had a building dropped on his head.ĭaredevil season 3 picks up right where The Defenders left off. Well, for the true believers still out there, I bring marvelous news: By ditching most of the more fantastical elements and returning to the nitty-gritty of Hell's Kitchen with the core characters that made this show great, new Daredevil showrunner Erik Oleson ( The Man in the High Castle) has created the best Netflix Marvel season to date. And then Iron Fist arrived with all the force of Finn Jones' baby rabbit punches by the time Netflix started pumping out subpar second seasons and reached its Avengers-style team-up, The Defenders, the streaming service's MCU had morphed into a high schooler's sex life, where only like 3 out of every 13 times were worth your while and there was definitely an over-reliance on The Hand. Ironically, the cracks began to show with the bulletproof Luke Cage, which had an endlessly charismatic lead in Mike Colter but couldn't regain momentum after its most intriguing character, Mahershala Ali's Cottonmouth, was quite literally thrown out the window. Jessica Jones continued the hype with a perfectly cast lead in Krysten Ritter, an instantly iconic villain in David Tennant's Kilgrave, and a noir twist on the comic book proceedings. DeKnight's grounded tale of Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) taking down the Kingpin of Crime Wilson Fisk ( Vincent D'Onofrio) was a jet-black beacon of hope for anyone who wanted a Dark Knight sensibility smartly applied to their Marvel-verse characters.
More mature than DC's Arrow-verse and about fifty shades darker than the big-screen MCU, then-showrunner Steven S. When Daredevilfirst premiered in 2015 it changed the game for small-screen superhero storytelling.
Netflix's Marvel Universe has been in a bit of a decline since, well, pretty much since the beginning.