Daredevil follows Matt Murdock, attorney by day and vigilante by night. The blind attorney combats the criminal gangs in Hell's Kitchen, which he traces back to a secret crime boss named Wilson Fisk.
The series stays incredibly faithful to Daredevil's pulp roots and does something delightfully unexpected - trust its fans enough to spare us a long, drawn-out origin story.
Handsome, meticulously paced and with a break-out performance from Cox, it has the potential to transcend the geek ghetto and become Netflix's biggest hit this side of House of Cards.
The advantage offered by the format of a Netflix series means that characterization gets top billing-you might come for the action scenes, but you'll stay because the characters get more compelling as the show continues.
Yes, we can finally put visions of Ben Affleck in red in the rearview mirror as Matt Murdock has at long last been given the treatment his legions of fans have long-claimed he deserved.
