While the MCU used to be a place that was filled to the brim with good movies it has lately become a place where finding even an OK movie was very hard to do. Yet there seems to be one show that alot of people seem to forget all about with the show not only just concluding it's first season but also being the best thing about this current phase of MCU related projects and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show that proves that Marvel Studios can do mature content with the show in question being called simply just "Daredevil: Born Again" enjoy.
The plot of this show is after a personal tragedy Matt Murdock stops being Daredevil and Wilson Fisk unleashes his most diabolical scheme to date when he becomes mayor of New York City. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad as it did a good job of keeping the original tone of the Netflix show whilst also doing it's own thing and being it's very own thing as well and while there some plots in this show that are better then others with Vanessa's main plot perhaps being the weakest one of the whole show it's the dueling plot with Matt and Wilson that is the best plot of the whole show as both characters spend the first half of the show trying not to be there former selfs whilst deeply hating it and they spend the second half of the show just going on this collision course that is obviously going to end up with them fighting each other at some point down the road and it's that plot line that is the beating the heart of the show as it's just so well done and while it doesn't take any twists or turns it really doesn't need to as all it needs tto do is build up tension for the show and that's really it and in that respect it does that really well with the plot of this show being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this show is Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/ Daredevil , Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn and Tony Dalton as Jack Duquesne. Also starring in this show is Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page , Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson , Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter / Bullseye , Zabryna Guevara as Sheila Rivera , Nikki M. James as Kirsten McDuffie , Genneya Walton as BB Urich , Arty Froushan as Buck Cashman , Clark Johnson as Cherry , Michael Gandolfini as Daniel Blake , Kamar De Los Reyes as Hector Ayala / White Tiger , Mohan Kapur as Yusuf Khan , Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk , Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle / Punisher , Patrick Murney as Luca , Cillian O'Sullivan as Devlin , Ruibo Qian as Angie Kim , Susan Varon as Josie , Hamish Allan-Headley as Connor Powell , Hunter Doohan as Bastian Cooper / Muse , Michael Gaston as Phil Gallo , Ashley Marie Ortiz as Soledad Ayala , Camila Rodriguez as Angela Del Toro , Lou Taylor Pucci as Adam , Jeremy Isaiah Earl as Cole North , Katherine Lanasa as Artemis Sledge and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well hen in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With this shows acting being one of the true highlights of the show itself as everyone of this shows actors just hit it out of the book in every single episode and while some of this shows actors only make an appearance in one episode they make it count with it being helped by the fact that alot of this shows actors are reprising their roles from the Netflix Daredevil TV show and so they of course would know how best to perform there respective characters because they already did perform them for years and those actors really do just slip right back into character so much so that you stop seeing Vincent D'Onofrio and you start seeing Wilson Fisk as that's just how good the acting in this show with the same thing also being true for the shows newer actors as well which couldn't have been an easy thing to do as they have to act against the more established and beloved stars from the Netflix show and still somehow turn in a good performance something which they do with considerable ease with the acting that's in this very show really being helped by the fact that the scripts for the show are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show.
Doing the CGI for this show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at RISE Visual Effects Studios and Anibrain Digital Technologies. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad for the most part as while yes granted there are a few dodgy looking effects shots in the final episode the overall quality of the shows CGI is pretty good but at the same time i'd be lying if I didn't say that there some bad looking CGI shots as well as the fight scene in episode one is filled to the brim with CGI smoke which not only wasn't needed as you could have done that for that real but it also distracts from what it is that we the audience actually want to see and that's the cool fight scene currently taking place but we can't see it because of the fact that the screen is filled with obviously CGI smoke and while the show does make use of mostly practical effects alot of the time which is not only a great thing to see but it's also true to how they did things on the Netflix show as well when this show does go full on CGI there are times where it works like by extending a building or a set but then there are times where it doesn't like for the fact that in the final episode of this season they have a shot which is obviously a CGI shot because it looks like that it was done on a TV show budget and not something that you'd expect from a Marvel Studios production.
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As is to be expected at this point in time this show does include a mid-credits scene during the end credits of it's final episode. Where after we see Frank Castle be captured by Wilson Fisk and his goons during the episode and we see that he's been left in a cage during the mid credits scene we see Frank talk to a random guard feigning friendship and offer the guard a handshake only for him to then brake his hand before cutting to black this is something that could be payed off in of two projects as it could be payed off in the upcoming The Punisher TV special which actor Jon Bernthal is noy only starring in but is also co-writing the script or the more likely place for it to be continued is in Daredevil: Born Again season 2 as that is going to be the final season of the show as a whole and so it would make sense for it happen there as it would tie into the main story of the show as a whole as well but it would also make sense for it to be in The Punisher TV special as it could very easily be a smaller scale story of Frank not only trying to escape from his cage but also trying to survive in a New York that is now overcome with not only crime but corruption as whole with him not being able to do anything because of the fact that Fisk's men are after only all vigilantes but also himself as well either way it is an interesting way to see where this storyline with this character could pick as realistically either one of them makes sense and either one of them would be a great place to put it as it's not something that would need explaining at all.
While there are some really good things in this first season there are just as much bad things about this first season of the show as well. Like the fact that none of the shows new characters are fully developed which might be because of the fact that this was original meant to be one single eighteen episode season before being split up into two separate season with them both being around nine episodes along which if that is the case then it might be to little to late for those characters to get any kind of development as the show would be ending by that point in time and us the audience would have decided if we like those characters are not with the other thing being the fact that the show ends good plotlines early in favor of the predictable reveal of Wilson Fisk still being a bad guy like for example for about three or four episodes they set up this mysterious villain who is going around killing people in New York and using there draining them of there blood to use for his paints that's a cool idea and a cool plot thread but the show ends it at episode seven when it would have been more then strong enough to carry the whole first season as we didn't need to know who fired Bullseye to kill Foggy during this season as that could have been saved for the shows second season and yet for some reason the makes of this show thought it was a good thing to have it be all but resolved in this first season of the show when there are other plots that could have filled that whole whilst still having the mystery of who it was that it had Foggy Nelson killed be an going mystery as that would be a great hook and a great reason to continue to watch this great show show.
Another kind of bad thing that this episode does is it does reveal who it was that hired Bullseye far to quickly as it does it at the end of episode eight. When this is something that could have been saved for the ending of this episode as that would have made for a great hook for season two and yet for some strange reason the makers of thought that it was a good choice to put a reveal that's this big and that's this important to matt's plot of the show in episode eight and while that episode was a good episode and from a narrative standpoint it does somewhat make sense to place it there as that's the only scene in which Matt and Vanessa actually spend some time together and it was fun seeing Matt basically turn into Sherlock Holmes and work out that it was Vanessa who ordered the hit out of Foggy as that is something that her character would do but at the same time it would have created more of mystery if it wasn't reveled who ordered Foggy's hit as it could even Wilson or Vanessa and either one of them would have made sense it would have been fun to see if there were any clues hidden all throughout the show as a whole to see if we the audience had missed anything the first time and while the show still doesn't given us any clues as to who it was in the first place thus meaning that this first season has to rewatch value to it it would have made the big reveal not only all the more shocking but also feel like a full circle moment if we got that reveal at the end of episode nine as the season started with Foggy in he first place it would there only seem right to end the season talking about him.
Now then this episode has / had an exact gran total running time of exactly fifty seven minuets and twenty three seconds. With each episode in average being around forty minuets with some being around the fifty minuet mark which in all fairness us also what the running time was for the average episode of the Netflix Daredevil show was as well with this episode having more then enough plot there to cover that running time but at the same time tho this episode in particular really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as none of the side characters are given a chance to show us the audience why we should care about them outside of the fact that either working for the bad guy or are working with the good guy and that's not really enough to justify them being this active in the shows main plot and where as the Netflix Daredevil really didn't have that many if any superheroes living in New York this one has plenty of them and yet none of them show up in this episode as realistically if something like this was going on then Spider-Man would show up to help as would Sam Wilson or Bucky Barnes or even Ant-Man for example all of whom have called New York there home and yet not one of them showed up when New York needed them to yes there might be some in story reason coming from the movies to explain that away if you live in the city where you know for a fact that there are superheroes around wouldn't you all want them to help to defend it that is something that could have been done in this episode but for one reason or another it just doesn't happen but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show then that really does mean that I gave to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually feature / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty. Not that bad as while yes the action in episode one was obscured alot of the time bad CGI smoke when we could see it it looked really good and that's the same thing for alot of the action that's in this show with it all being as brutal and as bloody as you'd want to be and while it's not as well done as the Netflix show in the respect that's not as up close and personal like alot of there fights were you can still tell that it has alot of that same DNA with the best action in this show being either the fight between Muse and Daredevil in episode sense which was just such a well done fight scene that was done in just one tiny office or the fight in episode nine with Daredevil and The Punisher teaming up to take on a bunch of Fisk's goons which is a just as awsome and as cool as you really want it to be with the only issue being with that fight is the fact that's alot shorter then what it really should have been with the fight itself barely lasting a couple of minuets when a fight that's could could have lasted at the very least five minuets easily and given just how long this final episode was you really wouldn't have to loose nothing that's actually important to the plot of the episode as that's just how good that fight scene really was in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall this show is so much more better then Captain America: Brave New World and is one that should be watched by all that love the MCU as it proves that when they really want that Marvel Studios and Disney can make something good that's related to the MCU it's just a shame that nine times out of ten they chose not to do so in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review ell then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page ad Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very review being the really great the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.