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Marvel Won’t Let Daredevil: Born Again Live
It doesn’t take long for the promising revival to crumble into another incoherent mess of IP management.
A decade ago, before Marvel consolidated its Hollywood endeavors under Kevin Feige’s Infinity Gauntlet–clad fist, Netflix pumped out a string of streaming series, later collectively christened “The Defenders,” that provided a distinctly different vision for what the quippy MCU blockbusters could look like onscreen: character-driven, grounded, violent. Of course, it’s only a matter of time and several elaborate plot machinations — here involving a serial killer, the trial of another vigilante, the rising threat of rogue cops, stuff carrying over from earlier shows that you may or may not remember, and so much more — before things spin out of control, forcing Murdock and Fisk to rub up against their inner natures. Just when you thought it wouldn’t adhere to that default need to service the broader cinematic universe, a mid-season suitcase episode features a bank heist and a secondary character whose primary function is to remind you that you’re watching one tiny morsel of a larger story.
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