Daredevil (season 1)

Daredevil (season 1)

Season 1 poster
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 13
Release
Original channel Netflix
Original release April 10, 2015

The first season of the American web television series Marvel's Daredevil, or simply Daredevil, is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films and other series of the franchise. The season, which was released on Netflix on April 10, 2015, and consists of 13 episodes, was produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios, DeKnight Prods. and Goddard Textiles, with Steven S. DeKnight serving as showrunner, and series creator Drew Goddard acting as consultant.

Charlie Cox stars as Matt Murdock / Daredevil, a lawyer-by-day who fights crime at night. The series chronicles the character's early days fighting crime, juxtaposed with the rise of crime lord Wilson Fisk, played by Vincent D'Onofrio. Daredevil entered development in late 2013, with Goddard initially hired in December 2013. DeKnight replaced him as showrunner and Cox was hired to star in May 2014. Filming began in New York City that July, with production ending in December. The season contains links to other MCU projects.

The season was released to critical acclaim, with critics praising the action sequences, performances, and the darker tone compared to other properties set in the MCU. On April 21, 2015, Marvel and Netflix renewed Daredevil for a second season, due to premiere in 2016.[1]

Episodes

No. Title Directed by Written by Original
streaming date
1"Into the Ring"Phil AbrahamDrew GoddardApril 10, 2015[a]
Criminals, including the Russian mafia, Yakuza, and Chinese, have taken advantage of Hell's Kitchen's circumstances since "the incident". Blinded as a boy in an accident that gave him heightened senses, Matt Murdock begins fighting this rising criminal element by night as a costumed vigilante while opening a law firm with his friend, Foggy Nelson. Their first client is Karen Page, a secretary for construction company Union Allied, who has been framed for the murder of her co-worker, Daniel Fisher, after accidentally uncovering a pension embezzlement scheme. Murdock prevents Karen from being prosecuted and protects her from an assassin, before exposing the scandal through Ben Urich at The New York Bulletin. Grateful for their help, Page offers to work for Murdock and Nelson. James Wesley covers up the involvement of his employer in the scandal, and orders Anatoly and Vladamir Ranskahov, the Russian's leaders, to deal with Murdock ("the man in black"): they kidnap a young boy to lure him into a trap.
2"Cut Man"Phil AbrahamDrew GoddardApril 10, 2015[a]
As a boy, Murdock lost his father when the latter won a boxing match he was supposed to throw, and was murdered soon after. Now, after failing to rescue the kidnapped boy, a severely injured Murdock is found in a dumpster by nurse Claire Temple. Nelson meanwhile attempts to comfort Page following her recent traumatic experiences. Temple takes Murdock to her apartment, tends to his wounds, and removes his mask, discovering his blindness. He refuses to reveal his name, but does reveal his heightened senses when they alert him to a Russian who is searching the apartment building, giving Temple time to hide Murdock and convince the man that she knows nothing. Murdock realizes that the man didn't believe her, and overpowers him, taking him to the roof. Murdock and Temple torture him into revealing the boy's location, before Murdock pushes him off the roof and into the same dumpster. He barely survives. Murdock enters the building where they are keeping the boy, defeats the guards, and rescues him.
3"Rabbit in a Snowstorm"Adam KaneMarco RamirezApril 10, 2015
Wesley, having become aware of Nelson and Murdock thanks to their involvement with Page during the Union Allied scandal, hires them to defend John Healy, an assassin. Though Nelson wishes not to get involved with an obvious criminal element, Murdock wishes to use the case to discover who Wesley's employer is, and so accepts Wesley's offer, which includes a substantial sum to insure their silence. Page receives a similar offer from Union Allied, who don't want her to talk to anyone else about the scandal, and threaten to sue her for leaking company secrets to the press if she doesn't agree. Despite this, Page goes to Urich, whose editor Ellison is forcing him to write superfluous stories rather than the major crime breaks of his youth, and offers to tell him more about the Union Allied scandal. After successfully defending Healy, Murdock confronts him in costume and forces him to reveal Wesley's employer, Wilson Fisk. Healy then commits suicide rather than face the consequences of this.
4"In the Blood"Ken GirottiJoe PokaskiApril 10, 2015
Murdock is unable to find any record of Fisk, and so continues to interrogate criminals, searching for answers. Wesley informs the Ranskahovs of an offer Fisk has made to help with their operations, given their recent failures. Angered at this apparent slight, they attempt to stop the man in black once and for all by visiting the Russian in hospital that Murdock threw from the roof, who tells them of Temple. They send men to kidnap her, but she manages to call Murdock in time to alert him of her kidnapping. The Russians attempt to torture Murdock's name out of Temple, until Murdock arrives and defeats all of the gangsters. Seeing the aftermath of this, the Ranskahovs decide to agree to Fisk's offer, with Anatoly going to tell Fisk personally. Fisk is having dinner with Vanessa Marianna, an art gallery curator. When Anatoly barges into the restaurant, Fisk quickly takes a confused Marianna home. Angered at this intrusion and embarrassment, Fisk beheads Anatoly and orders Wesley to send the body to Vladimir.
5"World on Fire"Farren BlackburnLuke KalteuxApril 10, 2015
Fisk explains the situation to his allies, including Chinese leader Madame Gao, of whom he asks a special favor. Elena Cardenas, a renter of powerful businessman Armand Tulley, comes to Nelson and Murdock after Tulley, who wants to convert her apartment building, sends men to wreck her home. Nelson goes to Tulley's lawyers at Landman and Zack (where he and Murdock once interned), represented by Marci Stahl, Nelson's ex-girlfriend. She explains that Cardenas and her neighbors can either take a large settlement or be evicted. While looking for complaints against Tulley at the police station, Murdock realizes Detectives Carl Hoffman and Blake are corrupt when he hears them kill a Russian. Murdock later incapacitates Blake and uses his cell phone to find Vladimir. Fisk pays Turk Barrett to reveal to Vladimir that Fisk killed Anatoly, and as they prepare for a war against Fisk, their forces are destroyed in a suicide attack by one of Gao's workers. Vladimir survives, but Murdock finds him, as they are surrounded by police.
6"Condemned"Guy FerlandJoe Pokaski & Marco RamirezApril 10, 2015
Fisk sends corrupt police officers to eliminate Vladimir and the vigilante, but Matt manages to evade them and carries Vladimir to an abandoned building to tend to his wounds. Though initially distrustful of Matt, Vladimir soon confirms to him that Fisk is trying to take over New York City's criminal underworld and instructs Matt to locate Fisk's accountant Leland Owlsley to acquire evidence of his crimes. The two men attempt to escape through the underground access tunnels, but Vladimir stays behind to hold off Fisk's men and is killed, while the vigilante is blamed for the bombings. Foggy, Karen, and Claire deal with the fallout from the bombings.
7"Stick"Brad TurnerDouglas PetrieApril 10, 2015
Acting on Vladimir's information, Matt tracks down Leland Owlsley, but before he can get him to give up any information, Matt is distracted by the arrival of an elderly man, and Owlsley escapes. The elderly man is revealed to be Matt's mentor, Stick, who taught him to master his abilities as a child. He enlists Matt's help to destroy Black Sky, a weapon that the Japanese, led by Fisk's associate Nobu, are bringing into New York. Matt agrees on the condition that Stick restrain himself from killing, but Stick breaks his promise and attempts to kill Black Sky, who is revealed to be a young boy. Matt stops his first attempt, but is attacked by Nobu's men. While he is fighting them off, Stick chases down and kills Black Sky. After a violent fight in Matt's apartment, Matt defeats Stick, and he agrees to leave the city. He is later seen conversing with a mysterious, heavily scarred man, who asks him if they will be able to rely on Matt in the future, to which Stick is uncertain.
8"Shadows in the Glass"Stephen SurjikSteven S. DeKnightApril 10, 2015
Matt is brought into the plan to take down Fisk by Foggy and Karen, who also introduce him to Ben. Matt advises them to take down Fisk by legal means rather than on the down low. Meanwhile, the vigilante visits Ben and gives him information on Fisk. In a series of flashbacks, Fisk remembers his abusive father, Bill Fisk, who tormented him and his mother. It is eventually revealed that Fisk killed his father after he saw him beating his mother, and that she dismembered the body and disposed of it in a river to hide the crime. Inspired by Vanessa, Fisk goes public with his plans to rebuild Hell's Kitchen, and is hailed as a hero by the media.
9"Speak of the Devil"Nelson McCormickChristos Gage & Ruth Fletcher GageApril 10, 2015
In the wake of Fisk's public revelation, Ben, Foggy, and Karen begin to think about how to uncover his past, while Matt continues to insist they go through the legal system. Matt tracks down Vanessa at her art gallery, hoping to gain insight into Fisk by speaking with her, and encounters Fisk himself. The firm's client, Elena Cardenas, is killed by a junkie hired by Fisk's men. Meanwhile, Nobu demands a promised city block from Fisk, who agrees on the condition Nobu provide him with a "specialist" in return to deal with the vigilante, which turns out to be Nobu himself. Fisk makes a public speech designed to lure the vigilante out. Enraged by Elena's death, Matt goes to an abandoned warehouse where he believes he will find Fisk. Instead, he is confronted by Nobu. Matt eventually wins, though not before Nobu manages to severely injure him. Fisk confronts the injured Matt, beating him nearly to death. Matt barely escapes, only to collapse at his home in front of Foggy.
10"Nelson v. Murdock"Farren BlackburnLuke KalteuxApril 10, 2015
Foggy discovers Matt's alternate identity and confronts him about his apparent blindness and abilities, removing himself from Nelson and Murdock. Meanwhile, Karen tricks Ben into helping her find Fisk's mother at a nursing home in upstate New York, who they interrogate for information about Fisk's troubling past. Fisk and Vanessa attend a fundraising party after Fisk's successful speeches to the public that earned him the respect of the people of Hell's Kitchen, when Vanessa and several others collapse due to poisoned champagne.
11"The Path of the Righteous"Nick GomezSteven S. DeKnight & Douglas PetrieApril 10, 2015
Still recovering from his injuries, Matt finds Melvin Potter, a mentally unbalanced engineer who has been coerced into working for Fisk, and asks him to make a suit of body armor like the ones he has made for Fisk. While Vanessa is recovering in the hospital, Karen and Ben locate Fisk's mother and learn the truth about his father's death. While at the hospital, Wesley receives a phone call from Fisk's mother and learns that Karen and Ben have tracked her down. He confronts Karen and attempts to blackmail her into not exposing Fisk, threatening to hurt her friends. In desperation, Karen grabs his gun and shoots him.
12"The Ones We Leave Behind"Euros LynDouglas PetrieApril 10, 2015
Matt dismantles Madame Gao's drug smuggling operation, prompting her to leave the city. While Karen begins drinking heavily to cope with Wesley's death, Matt and Karen make amends, and Ben attempts to publish his expose on Fisk, but is rejected by his editor. When Ben decides to publish the expose online, Fisk breaks into Ben's apartment and strangles him to death.
13"Daredevil"Steven S. DeKnightSteven S. DeKnightApril 10, 2015
Matt and Karen attend Ben Urich's funeral, and Matt reassures Karen that Fisk and his co-conspirators will face justice. Meanwhile, Fisk learns that Owlsley and Madame Gao conspired to poison Vanessa, whom they deemed a distraction, and that Owlsley has been hiding Detective Hoffman as an insurance policy. When Owlsley tries to blackmail him, an infuriated Fisk throws Owlsley into an open elevator shaft. Matt and Foggy meet at Matt's gym and reconcile their differences, and they begin building their case against Fisk. In his vigilante disguise, Matt finds Detective Hoffman and convinces him to agree to testify against Fisk. Acting on Hoffman's testimony, federal agents arrest Fisk and his co-conspirators, but Fisk manages to escape custody. Before he can flee the city, Matt intercepts him, wearing the new set of armor made for him by Potter. After a brutal fight, Matt defeats Fisk and leaves him to the police, avenging Ben's death. Fisk is arrested, Vanessa leaves the city, and Matt, Karen and Foggy celebrate their success and resume their work. The vigilante is named "Daredevil" by the media.

a The first two episodes were previewed at the series' LA premiere on April 2, 2015.[2]

Cast and characters

Recurring


Production

Development

In October 2013, Marvel and Disney announced that they would provide Netflix with live action series centered around Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage, leading up to a miniseries based on the Defenders.[17] Drew Goddard was hired to serve as executive producer and showrunner for Daredevil,[18] however, in May 2014 it was announced that Goddard had stepped down as showrunner in order to focus on directing a feature film based on Marvel's Sinister Six for Sony Pictures Entertainment. He was succeeded by Steven S. DeKnight. Goddard, who wrote the first two episodes, remained with the show as a consultant and executive producer. It was also revealed that the series would be titled Marvel's Daredevil.[19] The first season consists of 13 hour-long episodes,[20] and DeKnight, Goddard, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory, Dan Buckley, Joe Quesada, Stan Lee, Alan Fine, Cindy Holland, Kris Henigman, Allie Goss, and Peter Friedlander serve as executive producers.[21]

Writing

There was this issue of Daredevil, near the end of [writer-artist] Frank Miller's run. Our hero is fighting with a professional assassin named Bullseye, on a wire. The bad guy starts to fall; Daredevil catches him. He has him by the hand, high above the city. ... And then he decides to let him go," DeKnight continues. "Daredevil drops him to his death – or what he thinks is his death – because he doesn't ever want this guy to kill again. I remember reading that when I was a kid and thinking, Oh my god. When we started working on our show, that scene from the comics kept coming up. We all thought, this is a hero who is one bad day away from permanently crossing a line.

Steven S. DeKnight on the version of Daredevil that he wanted to see in the series.[22]

In September 2014, DeKnight talked about the series' freedom to use the characters, stating "Netflix has been fantastic. They are phenomenally supportive of the creatives. How much freedom will I have? This is a bit of a different scenario because it’s a Marvel property. Once you have an IP like that, there are restrictions that you have to accept. I’m fine with that, I totally understand. I’ll push it as far as I can, of course, but I also respect the fact that this character has been around for decades. Overall I’ve been surprised at how willing everyone is to take a really fresh look and really push what we’re doing."[23] In March 2015, actor Vincent D'Onofrio spoke about telling a story over 13 episodes, saying "it’s not like doing a TV series at all. It’s like doing a 13-hour film. So, I think that lends itself to being able to be much more specific and take your time in telling this long story. Now, having said that, they at the same time have to deliver a superhero aspect – a Marvel aspect to it – which, as we all know, is so dynamic and cool. So, that was the trick, to deliver the dynamic kind of Marvel superhero show and, at the same time, make it a serial that’s interesting and emotional and a real story."[24] In April 2015, actress Deborah Ann Woll talked about what she saw as one of the most important themes in the series – normal people having an impact in "seemingly insurmountable circumstances": "What really makes people like Matt, and Foggy, and Karen heroes is not that they have heightened senses, it's not that they have law degrees; it's just that they're willing to do it. They're not turning away; they're going to save these people's lives, even if that's just quality of life. That's super important."[25]

Casting

Charlie Cox stars as the titular character.

The main cast for the season includes Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil,[3] Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page,[4] Elden Henson as Franklin "Foggy" Nelson,[5] Toby Leonard Moore as James Wesley,[6] Vondie Curtis-Hall as Ben Urich,[6] Bob Gunton as Leland Owlsley,[6] Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna,[6] Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple,[7][8] Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk.[9]

In July 2014, Peter Shinkoda was reported to have a recurring role in the season, portraying Hashiro.[26] In March 2015, this character was revealed to actually be called Nobu, while recurring opponents for Daredevil – Madame Gao, Vladimir Ranskahov, and Turk Barrett – were announced, portrayed by Wai Ching Ho, Nikolai Nikolaeff, and Rob Morgan.[13] Additionally, the following also recur throughout the season: Geoffrey Cantor as Ellison;[27][6] Judith Delgado as Elena Cardenas;[10] Daryl Edwards as Carl Hoffman;[11] Royce Johnson as Brett Mahoney;[11] Adriane Lenox as Doris Urich; Peter McRobbie as Father Lantom;[12] Amy Rutberg as Marci Stahl;[14] Chris Tardio as Blake;[15] Susan Varon as Josie; and Tom Walker as Francis.[16]

Filming

In February 2014, Marvel announced that Daredevil would be filmed in New York City.[20] In April 2014, Quesada reiterated this, stating that the show would be filming in areas of Brooklyn and Long Island City that still look like the old Hell’s Kitchen, in addition to sound stage work.[28] Loeb said that Daredevil would begin filming in July 2014,[29] and DeKnight confirmed that filming had started that month.[30] In October 2014, filming took place in the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods in Brooklyn.[31] Production concluded on December 21, 2014.[32]

"Cut Man" ends with a long action sequence filmed in a single take. DeKnight called it the "most complicated action scene" in the series, due to the technical difficulty in filming it, and credited Goddard, episodic director Phil Abraham, stunt coordinator Philip J Silvera, and series cinematographer Matt Lloyd with realizing it.[33] He also named The Raid films as inspiration for the sequence.[22] Silvera later explained that, "it was always scripted that this scene was going to be a one-shot. For me in my head, with the time, we had, I said let’s do wipes and we’ll be able save things. But Phil challenged us to do a pure one-shot, which really just brought a grounded real feeling to the whole thing. We were able to slow down the fight, and just have this raw, animalistic feeling happening. [There were n]o cuts. We did do a few Texas Switches between our actor and our stunt double, but it was purely a one shot fight. There were no cuts in that fight. Every performer, the actors and the stunt doubles, were in there performing that fight full on."[34] There were only a few days to plan and set up the fight, as opposed to a film which would allow "at least a couple of weeks", and it took 7 or 8 takes to get the shot right.[34]

Visual effects

Visual effects for the series were completed by the New York studio of Shade VFX; Daredevil featured over 1000 visual effect shots.[35][36]

Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-ins

In February 2015, Emma Fleisher of Marvel Television stated that Daredevil takes place in the aftermath of the Battle of New York as depicted in The Avengers. "We are still part of the Marvel Universe, but we are not explicitly in that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. world. We're in our own corner. So the aliens came down and ruined the city, and this is the story of Hell's Kitchen's rebuild."[37] The character of Carl "Crusher" Creel, who is mentioned in the show as having fought Jack Murdock in the latter's final boxing match, appears in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., portrayed by Brian Patrick Wade.[38] After his father's death, Matt Murdock is raised in the St. Agnes Orphanage, where Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‍ '​s Skye was also raised. The insignia seen on Madame Gao's heroin is a connection to the Iron Fist antagonist, Steel Serpent. Additionally, Roxxon Oil is mentioned, a company featured throughout the MCU.[12]

Release

Daredevil was released on April 10, 2015 on the streaming service Netflix, in all territories where it is available, in Ultra HD 4K.[39][40] On April 14, 2015, Daredevil was the first Netflix series to receive its Descriptive Video Service audio description track, "a narration track that describes what is happening on-screen, including physical actions, facial expressions, costumes, settings and scene changes."[41] By April 16, episodes for the series had been pirated by 2.1 million individual users worldwide, according to Excipio, a piracy tracking firm, surpassed in that timeframe only by Game of Thrones. The biggest countries for piracy were Brazil (190,274 torrent downloaders), India (149,316), the U.S. (144,351), the UK (119,891), France (105,473) and Australia (101,025). Except for India, Netflix was available in each of those countries at the time.[42]

Marketing

At the October 2014 New York Comic Con, footage from the series was shown.[8][43] In January 2015, a motion film poster was released to coincide with the revealing of the streaming date for the first season.[39] The following month, on February 4, a teaser trailer was released.[40] Merrill Barr of Forbes noted the dark tone of the trailer in a similar vein to DC Comics' Arrow and different from Marvel's ABC series, but questioned the timing of the trailer debut after Super Bowl XLIX, saying, "Something one must wonder here, however, is why the studio opted to wait until now to release this teaser when they could have possibly gotten a much larger audience for it off a Super Bowl airing. Since this trailer wasn’t debuted with an episode Agent Carter, there was really no reason to wait...[E]specially when the company had no plans to release a new look at Avengers: Age of Ultron or Ant-Man, certainly the studio could have drop [sic] a few dollars to spread the gospel of its latest and riskiest show to the masses."[44] In March 2015, an additional motion poster was released, which featured all major characters and Avengers Tower in the background of the poster, as well as the possible reveal of Murdock's red suit in his reflection.[45] In the lead up to the first season premiere, a street marketing campaign appeared across the world in 12 cities with various artists creating murals.[46] On April 2, 2015, the series had its premiere at the Regal Premiere House at L.A. Live[16] where the first two episodes were previewed.[2]

Disney Consumer Products created a small line of products that cater to a more adult audience, given the show’s edgier tone. Paul Gitter, senior VP of Marvel Licensing for Disney Consumer Products said, "We’ll be focusing less on products that are targeted at the very young consumer," and more on teens and adult with products at stores or outlets like Hot Topic. Additionally, the series will be supported by a Marvel Knights merchandise program that will open new opportunities for product lines as well as new collector focused opportunities. Despite not being a feature film property, licensing partners wanted to pair up with Marvel given its previous successes; "When we go to partners, they pretty much rely on history as being reflective of the future." Gitter said.[47]

Reception

Critical response

Vincent D'Onofrio's performance as Wilson Fisk was one of the highlights of the series by critics.

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 98% approval rating with an average rating of 8/10 based on 40 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "With tight adherence to its source material's history, high production quality, and a no-nonsense dramatic flair, Daredevil excels as an effective superhero origin story, a gritty procedural, and an exciting action adventure."[48] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 75 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[49]

In reviews for the first five episodes of the series, Brian Lowry of Variety said, "The series does reflect the desire to inhabit a darker, edgier, more mature corner of the Marvel universe. Compared to Marvel's experience with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for ABC, operating in Netflix's pay-to-view world is clearly liberating, in much the way animated direct-to-DVD titles enable the comics companies to cater to knowledgeable fans without needing to worry too much about luring the uninitiated into the tent... By that measure, Marvel has shrewdly expanded its portfolio, and Netflix has upped its must-have quotient with a fiercely loyal segment of consumers."[21] Matt Patches of Esquire added, "The show's exterior recasts the high fructose, splash page aesthethic of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America with neo-noir attitude. Goddard and DeKnight drench "Daredevil" in shadows and blood. The latter comes as a bit of a shock. Flinch and one mistakes "Daredevil" for a TV spinoff of Christopher Nolan‍ '​s Batfilms, morose and willing to break a few bones". He also praised Cox and D'Onofrio's portrayals, while criticizing a subplot involving Nelson and Page and adding, "What Daredevil takes five episodes to do, it could do in three, a problem that could derail binge-watchers."[50] Victoria McNally of MTV felt the early episodes' fight sequences were "filmed beautifully" and enjoyed that they featured little CGI, while also calling Henson "perfectly cast and endlessly amusing" as Nelson.[51]

Eric Eisenberg of Cinema Blend also had positive thoughts on the initial episodes, saying, "the first five [episodes] lay down such an epically gripping and shocking foundation that it’s truly hard to imagine things taking a negative turn [in the final eight]. It’s smart, entertaining, and has moments so shocking that you’ll have to repress screams. Suffice it to say, Marvel and Netflix have another big winner on their respective plates," while also praising the acting.[52] Speaking of the first two episodes, Mark Hughes of Forbes added additional praise, saying, "Quite simply, in Daredevil Marvel delivers one of the greatest live-action superhero origin stories ever made. It is in the same top-tier category of true superhero origin films along with Batman Begins, Iron Man, and Superman: The Movie. The episodes are like mini-movies, and taken together the first two episodes could have been released almost as-is – with only a few minor tweaks to add some cinematic sense of scale – and it would’ve been hailed as one of Marvel’s best films to date."[2] Mike Hale at the New York Times was less positive about the series, calling it ordinary, but admitting having high expectations due to his love for the comics, and "admiring the care and seriousness with which [the series has] been made." He called the series slow pace "leisurely", but "a pleasant change from the norm". He called Cox's performance "divided", praising him as Murdock and criticising him as Daredevil, but positive about the cast overall. Hale ultimately surmised that after seeing the first five episodes, Daredevil is "eminently watchable, [but not] the Daredevil some of us remember."[53]

After reviewing each of the individual episodes, IGN reviewer Matt Fowler gave the entire first season a score of 9 out of 10, indicating an "Amazing" season, saying "Daredevil may have spun a few wheels while trying to figure out its endgame...but overall it was a thrilling, ultra-satisfying take on Daredevil's material and lore. One that, like Favreau's first Iron Man film, helped breathe new life and fandom into a somewhat B-tier Marvel character." He particularly praised D'Onofrio's performance, the "edgy" fight sequences, the fact that the hero himself got "beat on – a lot", and the unique dark take on the MCU. He did feel that the series "stumbled a bit" in its last third, but stated that the finale "pulled things back together nicely".[54]

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