In New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, an unknown vigilante beginning to take the fight to the streets in a big and bloody way just when Matt assumed a bit of order has been restored.
Awesomely exciting, engrossing and emotional, it balances the best sort of superhero fun with mature, serious storytelling. It's must-watch television of the highest order.
Daredevil is about a man with a savior complex who wrestles with the morality of violence, which the show portrays in gruesome, prolonged, visceral ways.
We finally get a sense of our hero's sense of justice in the series's vastly improved, if narratively disheveled, sophomore year through two new scene-stealing characters: Marvel fan favorites The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) and Elektra (Elodie Yung).
[Netflix programs] have demonstrated that it's possible to deliver a credible superhero show without a lot of pyrotechnics - a "Daredevil" with enough sure-footed elements to survive the occasional season-two stumble.
Daredevil seems to have found its niche as not only Marvel's most brutal offering, but also its most introspective as well. In terms of self-critically investigating its hero's, and genre's, inherent contradictions, it's a show without fear.
I must say I was a little disappointed with the beginning, but thankfully it all pays off when things pick up around episode four. And oh boy, do things pick up fast.
