Netflix announced this evening in a short press release that their first Marvel collaboration, “Daredevil” has been renewed for a second season just roughly three weeks since the show first premiered on the on-demand streaming service. However, man down: Steven DeKnight, the showrunner for season one, is departing. In his place will be Doug Petrie (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “American Horror Story”) and Marco Ramirez (“Sons of Anarchy”), who worked closely with DeKnight and executive producer Drew Goddard during the first season.
Season two of Marvel’s “Daredevil” will premiere in 2016, so along with “Luke Cage,” there will at least be two Marvel shows on Netflix. “Iron Fist” is probably waiting in the wings and should be announced soon.
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“Daredevil” focuses on Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, he fights against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the a super hero in modern day Hell’s Kitchen, New York City. Marvel’s “Daredevil” co-stars Rosario Dawson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Scott Glenn, Bob Gunton, Toby Leonard Moore, Vondie Curtis-Hall,and Ayelet Zurer.
I’m personally not a fan of the show so far, and it feels like Marvel’s weakest effort to date; gloomy for the sake of it, extremely repetitive thematically, and those flashbacks say the exact same thing about Matt Murdock’s life each time. But others on our team feel differently. Your thoughts?
Absolutely not a weak effort! Great show! I binged through the entire first season from start to finish! Absolutely looking forward to season 2!
And when I said Marvel\’s worst effort to date, I meant Marvel films (Electra, Punisher, etc. were made at other studios). though you guys are absolutely right that Thor 2 is dreadful (and yes, IM2 isn\’t very good either).
Dear Mr. T (by the way, your daily trolling is getting pretty played).
I didn\’t mention Jessica Jones because it\’s coming out in 2015. The sentence was about what was coming out in 2016. It just doesn\’t pertain to what\’s going on that year. I don\’t see how that\’s lack of research or "mediocrest."
Best, -RP
Far from Marvel\’s weakest effort. Try the Ben Affleck Daredevil? Electra? The Punisher films? It\’s not all that bad, considering the limitations of trying to put on an action heavy show on television.
Rodrigo I felt the same way as you the first half of the season, like the show was all bland color palette, not showing enough of the night lights of Hell\’s Kitchen or any color at all besides grey, the only reprieve actually being a character, Karen, who has such a unique skin tone that it lights up the entire room. She is wonderful.
But I felt the same as you as well regarding what felt like forced "are you really the hero? Or are you secretly just as bad as the people you\’ve been fighting just because you don\’t like when they kill people and it makes you angry and you want vengeance? What a devil you are! How could any good person react that way!"
It felt forced. The actor playing Daredevil is too kind hearted looking and down to earth feeling for this "hidden evil side" they kept pushing, this hidden conflict, to really resonate.
And those two complaints, the forced demons, and the color palette of the show, kind of still stand. However, I will say that as the show developed after the midway point, it got much better. Like into great territory. And the inner conflict stuff, they were able to tie that in a tiny bit better just with Daredevil\’s father issues and his dad always having "the devil inside him" that would come out in the boxing ring. And they at least opened up the universe a bit with mysteries and other things going on so it didn\’t just feel like a repetitive procedural with Daredevil fighting the same mobsters at the end of every episode looking for Kingpin.
I\’d say, give the whole season a chance. I thought it was the most overrated, overhyped show in a long time after just watching the first half of the series. It was still entertaining, a 7 out of 10, but I felt like it was too small scale, too repetitive, and either the writers or the actors or how both worked together weren\’t selling certain aspects like Daredevil\’s inner conflicts. But after the second half of the season I would change that rating to as high as 9/10. 8.5/10 at worst. The last few episodes flew by, and I\’m starved for more. It definitely improves. Now I can see why so many love it. Still not totally soled on Kingpin\’s acting or take on the character either, though, I must say. Even at the end when they tried to give him a villain speech to explain everything, his motivations still seemed extremely convoluted. But I don\’t mark the show down too much for that since he\’s got tons of issues and is psychotic, and one of the themes of the second half is him having to choose what he is or what his fate is. So he\’s basically a convoluted confused character at heart, so it makes sense that his motives would be as well.
Overall, it gets much better in the second half of the season. Give the rest a chance. I was even more skeptical than you but I\’ve come around.
what about the Jessica Jones series that is currently filming? forgot about that one? the research that goes into these "blogs" is beyond laughable. amateur level at its mediocrest.
Thought that it was very strong at points. Loved it whilst watching but probably binged too much. Will return to it at some point this year to give it a more detailed watch. However, the performances are some of the best in the Marvel universe to date. Charlie Cox is absorbing throughout (and his physical exhaustion after that 3 minute or so unbroken fight sequence illustrates the sheer commitment to the character). Vincent D\’Onofrio was probably the stand out. The way that Fisk/Kingpin was revealed to us and the gradual unravelling that took place was truly innovative. Very few villain performances go beyond the satisfactory (Heath Ledger, Alfred Molina and Tom Hiddleston are the exceptions here, not the rule). They took advantage of the format to add infinitely more colour to Kingpin, showing how TV can really compete with the Marvel Films in terms of character investment. You also have to commend Marvel for going outside of their comfort zone on the tone and explicit content. Many people thought that some of the violence was gratuitous, but I felt it necessary to move people\’s perspective away from the glitzy, glossier Marvel canon that we have become accustomed to. I have started to notice its flaws after a bit of contemplation, but it was still superb television: engrossing, intriguing and, at times, genuinely thrilling.
Weakest effort to date?! Haha. Obviously you haven\’t seen Iron Man 2 or Thor 2? F*** off Indiewire.
Marvel\’s weakest effort to date? Are you living in a different Marvel-verse than the rest of us? Did you just skip Thor 2: The Dark World then I guess? Daredevil is, in my opinion of course, easily the only thing that Marvel has made that deserves to be called \’\’great\’\’. It is well structured, sensitively performed and just plain kicks ass. Yes, thematically it tends to be a bit too on the nose, but so is everything else that Marvel ever made.
Great news, absolutely loved this show. I hope the quality doesn\’t change along with the showrunner.
trolling = anyone saying something that sounds odd to me which happens to be a lot because I have the imagination of a rock
Daredevil has been nothing but a thrill ride from start to finish. The show has been masterfully executed and blows the Flash and the Arrow clean out of the water. Personally I can\’t tell if you have bad taste or are just trolling haha. To each their own opinion am I right? Just my two cents.
Personally loved the show from beginning to end. The character has been dark from the getgo. This isn\’t a grab for the gritty tag. It\’s supposed to be that way. Dark for the sake of it could be something like Green Lantern which fails at the attempt to ground it into reality and add grit.
This was a show that did a great job of showing how someone without a real plan can simply get lost in the politics of the world and how to get the desired result. The action was superb and acting was great. Solid villain. Just a fun, kick ass show from beginning to end to me.
My thoughts are: I agree with you, Rodrigo. Started off promising but got repetitive and boring around the halfway mark.
Absolutely not a weak effort! Great show! I binged through the entire first season from start to finish! Absolutely looking forward to season 2!