So
Daredevil season 2 just dropped and like any Netflix series I watched the
entire thing in one single sitting. This is in itself not a good idea as the
series weigh in at a decent 13 episodes. But it also tend to make one a tad bit
more critical as the series goes on.
Now the
story so far goes thusly. (Spoilers… And more spoilers)
Matt Murdoc
is a bland lawyer that run a kind of pro-bono practice with his law school buddy
Foggy Nelson. Unbeknownst to Foggy Matt has super senses that he gained as a
child after being splashed with chemicals… because that is a thing… when he
saved an elderly man. Now as an adult he put these special skills to use to
meet out vigilante justice on the people who the legal system cannot. During
the first season we get to know Matt, Foggy and their first customer turned secretary
Karen Page as they protect New York´s Hell´s Kitchen both in court and on the
streets. The conflict focuses as the criminal and political power player Wilson
Fisk makes his presence known putting him and Matt on a collision course. This
whole affair resolves with Matt exposing his second life to Foggy and Fisk
ending up behind bars. Setting the stage for season two.
In season
two we find Matt and the gang pretty much where we left them last time… Just
about a year later. With Matt doing his dance of being a sort of lawyer at day
and fearless vigilante at night a new player enters the vigilante scene by
turning several gang in the city in to Swiss cheese. And while Foggy and Karen
go to war against the district attorney over first a survivor of the gang
massacre and then later the Punisher aka Frank Castle as his repeated murders
brought him in to conflict with Daredevil. Then the story goes completely off
the rail... In short order we find out that Castle was a victim of a failed
drug bust that caused his family to be gunned down, the DA office covered it up
for political reasons, his former CO being a drug lord and that his entire war
was based on a misunderstanding. All in all he had a very bad time. Add to this
mess that Matt is cutting out on his duties as lawyer to run around with his
ex-girlfriend who just happen to be an assassin as she try to take down a bunch
of honest to god ninjas. In the end nothing get resolved and anyone familiar
with Electra and her story from the comics should know how that storyline ends.
This season
of Daredevil seems rushed, like they had a handful of episodes planned but then
had to fill in the rest of the story… Maybe not as they went but it felt
rushed. The Frank Castle storyline feels solid and apart from the weird twist
on the end was well paced. The Electra story otoh felt slapped on and had some
serious pacing issues. Now with that said the overall impression is that
Daredevil season 2 still make for some really good TV but that it does not
really live up to the previous season or Jessica Jones. We will have to see how
the Netflix marvel series holds up as we move forward in to Luke Cage and
beyond.
So my final
recommendation is to watch it but make sure to spread it out over some time to counteract
the dip in the middle of the season.
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