Daredevil: Born Again Series One SPOILER FILLED Review

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.

My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of The Daredevil: Born Again TV Series

Just when you think Marvel has pretty much been destroyed thanks to the release of several failed projects including the more recently released Captain America: Brave New World they then go a head and release the first two episodes of this awsome show. With the new Daredevil show having just dropped on Disney+ you all just knew that I had to check out the first two episodes of this show just to see if it's any good and so then join me as I give my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the show that may leave fans of a certain character feeling really upset with the show in question being called simply just "Daredevil: Born Again" enjoy.

The plot of these first two episodes is after a major incident forces Matt to reconsider everything an old foe emerges from the shadows and runs for mayor of New York. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty really good with the plots being more in line with the Netflix show then anything that Disney+ has been putting out which is quite frankly really quite refreshing as it would have been seen as an insult not only to the character but to the fan of Daredevil as a whole if they gave this character a more lighter in tone plot as that's just not who that character is and yet they don't do that infact they o the opposite way and give him a more darker and more mature plot then anything that your going to be finding on the main Disney+ section which was in all honesty something that Marvel Studios really didn't have to do as they could have gone with the version of the character that showed up in the failed She-Hulk: Attorney At Law show and called it day but the fact that they went with a plot that's not only alot more serious but also alot more grounded in reality then alot of there other projects does show that they really do have alot of respect for this character with both of these episodes plots also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these episodes is Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin. Also starring in these episodes is Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn , Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page , Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson , Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter / Bullseye , Kamar De Los Reyes as Hector Ayala / White Tiger , 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 , Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk , Cillian O'Sullivan as Devlin , Victor Verhaeghe as Carlo , Gino Anthony Pesi as Viktor , Patrick Murney as Luca , Ruibo Qian as Detective Angie Kim , Susan Varon as Josie , Becky London as Judge Maribeth Hillson , Katherine Renee Cortez as Diana Montoya , Jeffrey Grover as Roger Cressna , John Benjamin Hickey as District Attorney Benjamin Hochberg , Andrew Polk as Judge Jerry Cooper , Nick Jordan as Nicky Torres , Johhny M. Wu as Forrest Tam , Michael Gaston as Commissioner Gallo and Ashley Marie Ortiz as Soledad Ayala.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. Which is something that's not really all that surprising as alot of the actors that are in the first episode are reprising there roles from the Netflix Daredevil TV show but it's also something that does indeed carry on over in the this shows second episode as well with the shows newer actors more then holding their own when it comes to acting against the actors who have played these characters before now and are so well beloved by fans and even then alot of those actors haven't really played these characters full time since the Netflix Daredevil TV show ended after it's third season and they all just step back into character as if they had never stopped when it comes to filming this new version of the show as that's just how good the acting in these episodes is both from the returning actors and from the shows newer actors as well with the acting that's in these very episodes also really being helped by the fact that the scripts for these very episodes is just so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them more naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in these first two episodes.

Doing the CGI for these first two episodes is the legends and the greats that are currently over at RISE Visual Effects Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time it wasn't something that's all that good either as the original show mainly stayed away from using CGI with them more often then not using practical effects which helped to make the shows version of Hell's Kitchen feel more real and grounded where as here the shows uses alot of CGI and because of that the world that this show takes place in doesn't feel real as instead t feels like something that was made in a computer and while yes there are some really good CGI effects in these first two episodes no one is going to ever question that but when your doing a show that is basically a sequel to a show that that firstly alot of people really loved and that secondly had it's own unique style and look to it and really didn't use that much CGI in it's episodes then you owe it to that show and the fans of that show to try and match what they did on that show and part of that does yes include not having that CGI and if you are going to use alot of CGI then you better make sure that it's all really good looking CGI because if not the fans will notice and they will pick it apart because of it.

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To be more then  frank when I first started watching episode one of this show I went into it with the idea of making this one a spoiler free post but that then very quickly changed when they killed of Foggy Nelson. Which was quite honestly such a shocking move to make as you don't expect them to kill a main member of the supporting characters and yet not only do they do exactly that but they also give him a big role in the first episode and make his death the key factor in Matt Murdock choosing to give up his life as Daredevil which was such a shocking move and while this is something that could very easily split the fanbase as there bound to be people who love Elden's take on the character from the Netflix show killing him off inn this episode was a great to say that this version of daredevil is going to go places that you never thought off and is going to do things that the previous show just didn't do and part of that does involve killing off Matt's best friend and while it is something that would have been much more better served if it happened at the end of the episode as it does make for a great cliffhanger ending having happen within the first twenty minuets of the show and having the rest of of that first episode be just about the fall out of this characters death and seeing how Foggy's death effects his friends does go to show you that the makers of this show knew how to defy your expectations and do something that nobody had every thought that they would do and because of that his death is really something that does work in the context of this episode.

What not alot of people would have realized is that the first episode of the show that was released wasn't infact the original first episode. As while yes Foggy's death was always intended to be in the first episode the show had a different director and different creative team on board but then for one reason or another that creative team got fired even tho a good chunk of this first season was shot and was pretty much ready to be released and a new team was brought on to overhaul the show and part of that overhaul involved creating the episode that we now see as being the first episode of the show however after doing some digging in turns out that this shows second episode is not only written by the original creative team of Matt Corman & Chris Ord but it's also directed by the original director Michael Cuesta now while it is impossible to tell if episode two of this show was the original first episode only with a few minor edits to it it is weird that Marvel would keep one of there original episodes if the plan was to do an overhaul of the series as a whole but on the other hand given that Michael Cuesta is also due to direct at the very least one more episode this season it could have been that this was just there original second episode and since it didn't really need changing they just chose to keep it and air it as is and have Michael Cuesta direct the next episode as way to show that there's no hard feelings between all of the original creative team either way it does make this show stand out as not alot of shows replace there entire creative team whilst the shows first few episodes are still in production let alone have those episodes come out as good as they are.

In again what could be seen as being a shocking move this show actually references the fact that Kingpin actually played a role in the Echo TV show. With it being a slightly big part of this shows second episode as it's reveled that after he got in shot in the head in that show he spent months in a hospital bed before waking up out of his coma and going somewhere unknown for several months which has now caused a rift between him and his wife and while this isn't focused on that much in episode two as that episode is more focused on reestablishing the Kingpin as someone who could be a threat if he so wanted to be one then it is in dealing with his problems with his wife but given the fact that the show even mentioned that has was having problems with his wife and that he genuinely doesn't know who hired Bullseye to take out Foggy Nelson in the first place it is possible that his wife did it just so she could show all of the other crime families that she's not to be messed but on the other hand given just how good Vincent D'Onofrio as this character and how he has us the audience hanging on his every word it is perfectly possible that he was laying to Matt when he said that he had nothing to do with Foggy's death both options to seem to be rather fitting for either the show or the character as the show from this first two episodes is all about defying your expectations and the Wilson Fisk character is all about thinking three movies ahead before even taking a single step so it is possible that he had Foggy killed of in episode one to get revenge on Matt for something that happen in the Netflix TV show.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty eight minuets and thirty three seconds while episode two of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty six minuets and fifty five seconds. While episode one does have the better running time as that episode does have more stuff to set up it's episode two that makes the most of it's running time as while both episodes do have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover there respective running times it's episode to that makes the best use of it's running time and uses it wisely as it shows just what a New York without Daredevil truly looks like which to be fair given the fact that Spider-Man also lives in New York isn't that much of a big deal but seeing New York without one of it's many protectors is an interesting angle to the episode as it means that whoever this shows main villain is can pretty much do whatever he or she wants to do as realistically there's no one to stop them and tell them not to it and while episode one does have some good things going for it from a running time point of view it doesn't make the best use of it's running time which is kind of understandable given just how much it had to do it is an episode that could have done with being just around ten minuets longer as then it could have given both Foggy and Karen a proper send off instead of just having Karen choose to leave the city off screen and it doesn't really allow for New York itself to be a character in it's own right something that the second episode does take steps to do but I really will admit that both of these episode really do have some really good pacing to them tho.

So now then as this as an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / resented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. As even tho the action in the Netflix show was more better and more gritty then the action is in these first two episodes the action in these episodes worked just as well as this is meant to be a more experienced Daredevil and so of course he's not going to be all of the things of that he did in the Netflix show because he knows better he's had time to perfect his craft now where is in the Netflix he was basically in his year as Daredevil and not to mention the fact that in the Netflix show he was very rarely if every angry during a fight scene and so we never got to see just how that effected him as a hero and yet that's the first thing that we do see in this shows first action scene and while the second episode does have a pretty cool looking fight scene between White Tiger and a few corrupted Policemen it's the fight scene in episode one that's the better scene because of the story that it told and because of the fact that like the hallway way scene in episode two of the original show it was all done in one shot only with a few hidden cuts thrown in and it is something that still looked really good and while yes the Netflix show really will always have the better action because of it's more grounded take on the characters for this version of that same show the action from these first two episodes really was alot better then what they both really had any right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall if you loved the Netflix show then chances are that your going to really love these first two episodes as it's all of the characters that you know and love all back and all played by there original actors with this show also being way more mature for any Disney+ show both of which combine to make a show that could be a hit show for Disney but either way it's a show that's really worth watching 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 these first two episodes in this post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if this post does decently well and if you guys want me to check out another episode then I will do it and that post would then be a review of that episode and that episode only and not a review of the show as a whole.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys an girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very post 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 these very episodes with alot of them being better quality then what'd 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.

Daredevil TV Series "Cut Man" Review

We are now just a few short days away from the release of the latest live action TV series to featured the character of Daredevil and well since it's been a whopping FOUR years since I last reviewed an episode of this show. It only made sense that for this tie in review that I take a look at the shows second episode and so then join me as I review the episode that has a truly iconic fight scene in it with the episode in question being called simply just "Cut Man" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a nurse helps an injured Matt Murdock she finds herself swept up in a missing persons case. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes plot being shockingly violent and gory something that was all to common place with the Netflix Marvel shows with this episodes plot also doing a good of showing more of Matt's origin story which was something that does work well for this episode as at this point in the show we the audience are still trying to figure out if we like this character or not and therefor showing us just how he was growing up both before and after his accident does go along way into making us the audience care for the character and while there is a subplot with Karen and Foggy that does go nowhere as it's just there to be comedic relief and that's really it but even so because of the fact that the main plot of the episode was so interesting it felt like including this more comedic subplot was only added in because of the fact that the makers of this show felt like that they had to include those characters and not because of the fact that it's something that would benefit the episode as whole with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Masked Man and Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page. Also starring in this episode is Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson , Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple , Peter Gerety as Sammy Silke , John Patrick Hayden as Jack Murdock , Skylar Gaertner as Young Matt Murdock , Alex Falberg as Semyon , Moisés Acevedo as Santino , Kevin Nagle as Roscoe Sweeney , Susan Varon as Josie and Dean Neistat as Officer Ray Peters.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting thats actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which is really nothing new as a good chunk of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors in there right and even tho this episode is still very early in the shows run they do manage to perfectly capture there characters and with the case of Rosario Dawson become a recurring character not only this show but alot of the other Marvel Netflix TV shows as well thus giving her ample opportunity to perfect her performance as her character and while her performance in this episode is still a good performance it's obviously not going to be as good as when she would play the character in later episodes of any of the Marvel Netflix TV shows as by then she would have had the chance to explore the character a little bit more with the same also being true for alot of the main actors in this episode as even tho there performances in this episode is still really good it's obviously not going to be as good as there performances in later Netflix Marvel shows but that is something that does tell you just how good this episodes actors really are as even in this episode really pretty much all of the performances are really good in there own right as well with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all of this episodes actors really have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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 episode.

As alot of you well all no doubt remember this is the episode that does introduce us to the character of Claire Temple. With the character being the main linking point between all of the Marvel Netflix TV shows and it's easy to see why they used her character to fulfil that purpose as they made her a nurse which means that naturally any of the Netflix Marvel heroes could run into her just by going to the hospital where she works and seeing her kind nature in this episode with her willing to help her out Matt without knowing who he is and why he's injured just because it's the right thing to do does make her a kind person and seeing her struggle to come to terms with the fact that the person that she's helping isn't all he seems to be does oddly enough make her a real person as alot of us would also struggle to come to those same conclusions if we helped out someone only for it to turn out that there's more to them then meets the eye and seeing her struggle to come to terms with the fact that Matt is a good guy does make for an interesting character arc for her to have in this episode with it being easy to see why the show kept on brining her back as she does come across as being a really likable character and one that if given the right chance and the right script could have very easily have led a show of her own and given the fact that Disney likes to make shows with female leads it's shocking that they haven't made a superhero show with her character as the lead character.

What was really odd is the fact that they just straight up rip off Rocky's speech about how it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward from Rocky Balboa. Which was something that worked really well in that movie as the character had been through alot over the course of five movies and yet because of the fact that it's not only told in flashback but it's both Young Matt and his father Jack Murdock saying it to each other it looses all impact as while there version of it isn't all that bad as it's then just saying "It aint how you hit the mat it's how you get up" is still a really good motivational speech but Rocky's speech was done better as not only was it coming from a character that had become a cultural icon at that point in time but it was also a really well written speech about not giving up in the face of adversary with it also being a father just talking and trying to reconnect with his son where as here as both the characters still really love each other and both of them have no reason to spout such a saying just yet it's not really something that works in this context where as if this speech had happened after Matt had had his accident and not before it then there would at the very least be some sentiment behind it and heck if the makers of this show really wanted that speech to happen exactly the way that it does in the final cut of the episode then they could have brought it back in the same episode only this time have Jack saying it to young Matt as he's trying to calm him down from just having his accident as that way it would make some form of sense.

What was shocking was the fact that alot of the episode really does take place just at Claire's apartment with there really being very few other locations that we actually get to see in this episode. This is something that is kind of refreshing as it means that we get the chance to see how Claire reacts under pressure and when something new is thrown at her but at the same time tho as this show is still developing it would have been wise to show us more of New York and how the people in it react to certain as while yes we have the mainline MCU films for that as well we've never really seen from the ground level heroes and that is something that could be more interesting to see as daredevil unlike say Captain America , Thor or Iron Man for example can be beaten easily and by everyday people and yet we don't get to see alot of that world in this episode which does have the add on effect of making the episode feel alot more claustrophobic then what it actually is with it also oddly enough making the episode seem alot more cheaper then what it actually is as well and yet by showing us more locations even if it's the Karen and Foggy plot line it would then go along way to make this shows version of world building seem alot more better then what it already is because as things stand this show really doesn't have to do that much world building due to it taking place in the MCU and yet because of the fact that we haven't seen New York from the point of view of these ground level heroes it would be more interesting to see there version of New York.

Whilst it was a good idea to show part of the origin for Matt in this episode as it is something that does help to further endure him to us the audience. Given that this is Netflix and the show has a more mature rating they really could have showed us Jack getting killed instead of it happening off screen as he was a major influence on young Matt and while they approach that they take does make sense by only showing it from Matt's point of view and there putting us the audience into his shoes it also would have worked if they showed us the characters death as well as then they could really make whoever did kill him really more of a bad guy and heck they even could have had young Matt there to great his father after the fight which is something that would have made sense for that character and it would have given the older Matt more trauma as he would have witnessed his beloved father get killed thus not only starting his lust for vengeance but adding fuel to it at the exact same time but what let's the origin down is the fact they perhaps do a little two much of it which is something that does make sense given that this first season was only thirteen episodes but given that the whole show was all about Matt becoming Daredevil they could have ended the season with him having the flashback to his father getting killed in the final episode as that's where it could be argued that Daredevil was well and truly born where as having it here doesn't really make sense from a storyline perspective and yet if they did have the death flashback happen in episode thirteen then the makers of the show could have milked it for more trauma over the course of the season by showing us in flashback form just how much they each meant to each other and how good of a father that Jack was to Matt.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty two minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which was a pretty solid running time for this episode to have as this episode really does have the right amount of plot there to cover that running time but at the same time tho all of the scenes involving Foggy and Karen in this episode felt like filler scenes as they not only add anything to the plot of the episode they also add nothing to either character either with them just being there to eat up screen time that would have been better used if it was say given to Claire or Matt for example and yet because of the fact that the makers of this episode felt like that they had to use the Karen and Foggy characters we get a bunch of painfully unfunny scenes in an episode that was doing just fine without them and really didn't need any padding as all the episode would have to have done to reach that exact same running time is expand on it's main plot and that's really it and by doing that it would allow for the characters of Matt and Claire to start to form a friendship with each other and maybe who knows we could have gotten some of Claire's backstory outside of the fact that she once dated some guy called Mike and if anything she was the one that needed to have some of her backstory explored in this episode as this was her debuting episode and there for there needed to be a reason for us the audience to care about her character and while we do still get that reason due to her interactions with Matt it still means that we know less about her coming out of the episode then we did going into the episode 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 that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action tat's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With of course the best action in the whole entire episode also being the episodes only action scene and that being the truly epic and truly iconic hallway fight scene near the end of the episode with the thing that makes that action stand out from all of the other action scenes in other superhero shows not only being the fact that it takes place in one small location but also the fact that we see the villains openly using guns to try and fail to take down Matt and also the fact that the whole scene from beginning to end was done in long take which is something that's always going to be hard both for the director shooting it and the actors taking part in it as it means that everyone has to be on there A game and if one person just one messes up then they have to do the whole scene over again from the beginning and yet even tho there might have been one or two hidden cuts in there as they do go a random black shadow on the wall alot of the time the scene itself is well done as we get tot Matt pulling of alot of really cool moves with the scene itself being awsome and a true sign that if Marvel really does want to pull off a great looking and unique looking action scene then they really can do it as this scene right there is nothing short of proof of that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall with Daredevil: Born Again really coming out just a few short days this episode is a perfect one to watch in preparation for the new show as it shows you the character of Matt Murdock when he really was written at his best and here's hoping that the new show is good because it has some really big shoes to fill as both this show and this episode are just that good 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 episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very review well 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 , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode 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 episode 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.

Daredevil TV Series "Into The Ring" Review

 

Ladies and gentlemen depending on where your seeing this review you'll know that i've mainly been covering DC Comics related media for the last week or so and well I grew tied of doing that and so I thought that i'd look at some Marvel stuff. As luck would have it it's been three almost four weeks since I last took a look at something from the Netflix corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and so here is my review of the show that started of that mini universe of Netflix shows (which are technically connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe) Daredevil with my review of the show's debut episode called "Into The Ring" enjoy the review.

The plot of the episode is new defense lawyers Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson land there first client in murder suspect Karen Page and it's up to the duo to prove that she's innocent and it's up to Matt Murdock's alter ego Daredevil to keep her safe. I will admit that the plot of the episode to me wasn't that engaging just because to me there wasn't alot of story actually happening and so plot points felt forced but I would understand if someone did like the plot of this episode tho i'm just not one of the fans of the plot of this episode.

Starring in the episode is Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil , Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page and Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson. Also starring in the episode is Toby Leonard Moore as James Wesley , Bob Gunton as Leland Owlsley , Peter McRobbie as Father Paul Lantom , Daryl Edwards as Detective Carl Hoffman , Chris Tardio as Detective Christian Blake , John Patrick Hayden as Jack Murdock and Skylar Gaertner as Young Matt Murdock.

The acting in this episode at least in my opinion was really freaking with all of the actors even those who don't have big roles in this episode truly do deliver solid performances. What helps the acting in this episode is the fact that the script is so good and the script gives the actors alot to work with in terms of there characters and the characters personality as such all the actors have to do really is just say the lines as they are written and nothing more.

I have to say that while the idea of having a good person be arrested for a crime they didn't commit and thus they need the help of our hero or heroes is an over played and over done here the idea really does work. What makes this played out idea is the fact that you feel the pain that Karen is going through and so you want to see her let go free of all chargers which she is here and it also makes her meeting the other two main characters feel more organic instead of having her meet them for no reason she's now meeting them because she actually really does need there help.

There was something in this episode that I found to be unintentionally funny and it's the fact that after the prolog at the start of the episode which details how Matt Murdock become blind the child actor playing a young Matt Murdock seems to add several e's everytime he says see. Just seeing that scene play out which yes I did rewind because it was that funny I have to wonder does the actor always pronounce see with several e's everytime he says it or was it that way in the script I honestly need to know the answer to this question.

Sadly we are now getting into the negatives for the episode but not for long tho because there is still alot of good stuff in to be found in the episode. One of those negatives is the fact that even Karen says you can't trust any one to Daredevil he still for some reason takes the one thing that could clear her name to the press which in turn would bring alot more pain to all of the characters this to me is a dumb move on the part of Daredevil since he's not only putting his life on the line he's putting several lives on the ling honestly the smart thing to do would be to let the villain of the episode think that they've won and then when they are sure that there's no more corruption in the police force then get Karen out of prison since her character really isn't that important to this first season at least from what I can remember it would have made alot of sense to have her be jail for this first season and then have her released at the end of the first season where she could then join with Matt and Foggy and help them out with clients where ever she can.

This episode is fifty two minuets and fifty seconds long which I feel is a tad bit long for this show since the episode doesn't really have alot of story to cover that time frame. If anything this episode should have been at least forty minuets if not a little less then like maybe thirty five minuets but I get it this is Netflix alot of there shows seem to closer to an hour then forty five minuets but when the episode doesn't have alot of story then the time for the episode needs to adjusted.

Like I said before this show and all of the other Marvel Netflix shows are technically set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. AS such whenever you watched a new episode of any of the Netflix Marvel shows you were technically watching the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and I know that these shows are set in the Marvel Cinematic because all of them reference the final battle in New York from 2012's The Avengers AKA Avengers Assemble. I do have to wonder tho why the film makers behind either Avengers: Infinity War or Avengers: Endgame didn't include characters like Daredevil , Jessica Jones , Iron Fist Or Luke Cage because they very easily could have done just by showing them getting snapped away at the end of Avengers: Infinity War or by showing them taking part in the final battle in Avengers: Endgame either one would have worked.

Now then boys and girls since this is an action show that does mean that we have to talk about the action that's in this episode. Which was honestly really freaking well done in my opinion you could just tell that the stunt guys were going all in because there is no way in hell that the makers of the show could have made the set safe enough for the stunts that they do in this episode and the action itself was so freaking good I honestly recommend watching this episode just for the action alone it's that good in my opinion.

Overall this was a really freaking good episode and is honestly a really good representation of what the show is like when it's at it's best in my opinion. That being said however I personally did have issues with the episode all of which i've talked about in this review but I can still see why this became a fan favorite and lasted three seasons because just based of this episode I can say that this is a decent series and with that said this episode gets an 8 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page and nowhere else. Since I only went to the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page for the images that I used in this review I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page for images from either this episode , this show or anything to do with the Marvel Cinematic Universe because the images are really high quality which for me at least is a really important thing and is something that I look for when i'm writing a review.