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Daredevil: Born Again Recap: The Predator and the Prey
“Isle of Joy” isn’t a perfect episode, but it feels like this show working as intended, raising the stakes for everyone for next week’s finale.
Much of that feeling likely comes from the creative overhaul that transformed a lighter procedural into a more serialized drama in the vein of the original Netflix series; “With Interest” ’s stand-alone hostage situation clearly belonged to the former version of the show, and much of that iteration lives on in even the plottier episodes. The centerpiece event this week is the Black and White Ball to celebrate the Red Hook port-revitalization project, and much of the first half is about setting up several different characters to eventually collide dramatically at that climax. During a visit to a closed Josie’s (and another stern talk from Cherry, a character who’s really starting to seem one-note), Matt realizes that on the night Foggy died, he knew he was going to win his big upcoming case.
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