Daredevil: Born Again "The Southern Cross" SPOILER FILLED Review

Disney really is on a roll with there TV show finales as we've just had Maul: Shadow Lord kill it with it's first season finale and now we have another show it's final episode. With this episode also being really good as it more the pays off everything that was set up in not only this season but the first season as well and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episode that really does change the game with the episode in question being called simply "The Southern Cross" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is with Karen still in court Matt must do what he can to prove that Wilson is evil and expose him for all of his crimes even it means doing something drastic. 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. To put it frankly this episodes plot works so well even if you remove the fact that it's a Marvel show as it is just such a well written plot that does get you invested in what's happening on screen and it keeps you hooked all the way to the very end of the episode. With the thing that makes this episodes plot work as well as it does is the fat that both this season and the first season where originally commissioned as one big season order before it was decided to split the episode count into two separate season with allowing the makers of this show to tell one whole story over two seasons with this episode of course forming the final chapter of that story with this helping the episode due to the fact that it's now given us the audience alot more longer to become in vested in these characters and in this story, while yes this episodes plot could have been alot more stronger in some places as not everything that you wont to see get resolved gets resolved the things that the episodes plot does well it does really well 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 / Daredevil and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin. Also starring in this episode is Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter / Bullseye , Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page , Matthew Lillard as Mr. Charles , Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn , Lili Taylor as Marge McCaffrey , Nikki M. James as Kirsten McDuffie , Arty Froushan as Buck Cashman , Zabryna Guevara as Sheila Rivera , Genneya Walton as BB Urich , Clark Johnson as Cherry , Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones , Hamish Allan-Headley as Connor Powell , Ruibo Qian as Angie Kim , Jeremy Isaiah Earl as Cole North , Camila Rodriguez as Angela Del Toro / White Tiger , John Benjamin Hickey as Benjamin Hochberg , Ashley Marie Ortiz as Soledad Ayala , Annie Parisse as Ariana Iacovou , Alexis Frias as Javi Espinosa , Roberto Lopez as Berto , Deirdre Lovejoy as Alicia Waters , Dustin Tucker as Grimes and John Hedges as Luna.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting 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 acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. It's not really all that surprising that this episode has some really good acting in it as not only are a bunch of this episodes actors some really good actors in there own right but this show and by extension the first Daredevil TV show did always have some really good acting in it with this episode of course being of no exception as all of this episodes actors really do bring there A game to this episode something which they really didn't need to do. With the best actor in this entire episode being Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin as he really does go through alot of emotions in this episode and may god do you see it all in his face as you see him go from calm to kind of playful in the scenes in the court but when the ace in the hole gets played you see him go from happy to anxious at the drop of a hat and then you see him go from anxious to down right angry and that is when that character is at his most dangerous and yet even then it doesn't stop as he goes from angry to sad and then from sad to at piece and all of this is something that Vincent does in not only his facial expressions but his body language as well and that is something that really does make you see just what this character is thinking and feeling at any given time and that is something that does come through in his performance. 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 this episodes actors have to do is just say te lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats thar are currently over at Ingenuity Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. To be frank this episodes CGI was alot more better then what it really had any right to be as while the episode does make alot of use of digital doubles for it's characters especially during the third act there not as bad as have been in more recent productions as they do still move like real people with the only major thing being that they are doing things that the actors just can't do or it's unsafe for them to do them. While this show doesn't really use CGI all that much as really it's only used for extended the set and creating digital doubles of certain characters and that's really it the episode does take the time to add in things like buildings in the background or in the case of this episode some CGI light coming in the windows in some of the courtroom scenes and while alot of this is understandable as you might have to hide certain things like the camera or crew for example there really wasn't any need to add in some CGI light as you very easily could have shone a light through the window and created naturally and while the CGI version isn't that bad it is somethin that does stand out as everything around it is done for real and while it might have been added in in post to make the scene be more visually interesting this is something that should have been thought of while the episode was in production, yet to be fair to this episode alot of the hidden CGI in this episode does work really well as you can't tell what was added in later as opposed to what was done there on the day and that is exactly how CGI should be as it should always blend in and enhance the scene and not stand out and take away from it.

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Out of alot of the things that are in this episode one of the things that people are going to be talking is the fact that we get the return of Mike Colter as Luke Cage. With him appearing in the final few moments of the episode just to confirm that he and Jessica are now parents this a huge bombshell moment as even tho the two of them got together in Jessica Jones by the time that that show ended and Luke Cage began as a TV show he has dating someone else entirely and yet here he is not only back with Jessica but now a dad this is something that does change the game for those two characters as now there little girl could very well end up having superpowers of her very own. With both Luke Cage and Jessica Jones pretty much all but confirmed for the next season of Born Again it would be interesting to see where the show takes those characters given the fact that this episode ends with the family setting up a new version of "Alias Investigations" and given the fact that the two of them do now have a kid of there very own it would be more then interesting to see where the show goes with there characters and given the fact that this show does firmly love the Netflix shows so much it would be interesting to see them brining back in alot of the side characters from both shows just to see how those characters would react to seeing both Jessica and Luke back together again let alone seeing that there both up to there old ways of being super heroes once more as this is something that could lead to an interesting plot for the characters like maybe there daughter doesn't know that her mom and dad were former superheroes and has to come to terms with that over the course of the next season or they could do a one off special like that there doing with The Punisher: One Last Kill.

For one reason or another when it comes to there series finales Disney has been really on fire recently with both this show and Maul: Shadow Lord not only having great first and second outings in there own right but also having fantastic final episodes. This is something that should always be the case as plenty of TV shows have been ruined by having a bad finale and while both of those shows are confirmed to be getting new seasons the fact that they managed to have episodes that stick the landing as it goes is something that will make people look back on those respective shows alot more fondly yet if you were to take a look at something like for example Game Of Thrones which had several good seasons but it fell apart when it's final season was ending and therefor people don't look back on that show as fondly as they know where it's leading to. However with this show and this episode what it's leading to is a great episode where we get to see Matt Murdock reveal himself as Daredevil in the ultimate move to get Fisk to reveal to the whole of New York that he's a bad guy with it being done in a way that not only makes sense but also works for both characters as Matt calls Fisk to the stands and after several questions shows him the video that confirms that Daredevil was in the right with him saying that he is daredevil to back that up essentially all the while Fisk is almost daring him to do it as he knows that if Matt does go through with it that he will be locked up from the crimes that he committed as Daredevil with them both playing chess basically and daring the other one to make the wrong move first, that is somethin that does work well for both of these characters as Matt would of course do anything to help his friend and in this case his client and Wilson Fisk would do whatever it takes not only to clear his own name but to make sure that the people see him as being in the right the whole time.

Speaking of Matt and Wilson they get one of the best scenes in the episode together with the episode itself proving that a hero doesn't always need to punch his opponent into submission to get his to quit. With this episode having Matt talk Wilson into accepting an offer to step down as mayor of New York willingly and move away and never come back this is something that does prove that words can be just as effective as a punch to the face as while it would have been totally justified for Daredevil to beat the ever loving daylights out of Wilson all it would have done is prove him right and that all vigilantes are the bad guys yet by taking the opposite approach and having him use his words and using logic to get him to do it all willingly he is proving that not only to Wilson but to the people surrounding them both that violence isn't always the answer. This is something that works so well in the episode as while the Kingpin in his current frame of mind would be capable of rational thought due to the fact that he's just lost the only person who could ever hold him back he and Matt know this dance to well to know that the other won't quit whilst the other is still standing and therefor the only logical choice was him to accept the offer and willingly leave New York and start his life over again somewhere but even so it could be argued that Kingpin does get the last laugh as unlike Matt he is still free to do whatever he wants meanwhile Matt is now in jail for the crimes that he committed as Daredevil essentially leaving alot of New York without someone to protect it which does mean that Fisk or any other street level villain could swoop in and do alot of damage and Daredevil wouldn't be there to stop them and while we do see Karen putting the Muse mask there's tell on if she'll become a vigilante n Matt's absence.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty one minuets and nine seconds. With this episode being one of the more longer episodes of this season of the show which is something that does make sense as this episode does essentially have to wrap up two seasons worth of stories and therefor it did need the extra running time to do exactly that but at the same time tho this episode could have done with loosing a few minuets around the middle of the episode as that's where the episode did start to drag a little bit not so much that it hurts the episodes overall pacing but enough so that you do start to notice it a a little bit with the episode on the whole having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet in saying this tho the episode really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't fully develop its plot which in all fairness it really doesn't have to do that given the fact that this is the final episode of the season and therefor it wouldn't make sense for them to fully develop this episodes plot but at the same time tho the episode does spend time on a prolog scene with Matt being arrested and sent to jail and then showing a clearly distraught Karen putting on the Muse mask when all of that is something that could have been covered in a montage at the end as we don't need to see whole scenes explaining all of that as all that does is eat up screen time that could have been spent on developing the episodes plot. The episode kind of doesn't even fully develop its characters either which again isn't that big of an issue in this case as it doesn't have to do that in the final episode but they don't even reveal who Mr. Charles really when that's something that could have done as that would have added something of interest to his character but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is ana action how that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action 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 action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The fact that this episodes action is as good as it is isn't something that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone as people who have watched this show will know that when this show gives us a really cool action scene it is something that is worth talking about and that is very much the case with this episode as even tho the episode only has the one action may god is it one that's worth talking about. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the attack on the courthouse as that scene is just so well done as we get to see Fisk punching and headbutting innocent New Yorkers all the while his own task force is hunting down and trying to kill Matt , Jessica and there friends which leads to both Matt and Jessica having to take out entire waves of them on there own with the whole sequence being very well edited and put together as we do get to see just how desperate that both sets of characters are with the thing that makes the whole thing wrong being the fact that it was something that was built up in another episode of this same season as earlier on we had an entire episode where the people of New York had finally had enough and were trying let there feelings beard and Fisk's task force got violent with them and yet here when they do it again the people don't back down and they are et into the building and that one thing is something that makes that whole scene work with the rest of the episodes action just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall next week Punisher special has alot to live up as this episode no scratch that this whole season has just been so good that we are now closer then we have been in the past several years to finally saying that the MCU is back on track as this episode gives us a satisfying ending to a really good second season in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the god 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 show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 9.5 out of 10 and the episode earns itself a 9.5 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 well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all pf the images tat I personally used in this very review from 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 post being the really great Google Images 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 really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Daredevil: Born Again "The Northern Star" SPOILER FILLED Review

 

It is a very rare thing for a show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be given a season 2 as all of them end after there first season. Which is something that does make this show kind of special as it was greenlit with a two season order with each season being really around nine or eight episodes each and will second season has just started and since I loved the first season it really only made sense that I check out this episode and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episode that sees Matt get a new suit with the episode in question being called simply just "The Northern Star" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is sometime after the events of the last season New York is still truly under Fisk's thumb and Matt has to try and find any kind of evidence that can be linked to Fisk in order to help to bring him down. 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 not that bad. With the episodes plot doing a good job of not only catching us up with where the characters are now but also in carrying on the plot for the first season with that plot still being as gripping as it was back in season one yet just based off of this episode it does look like that this season won't add anything to the shows overall plot which is something that does somewhat make sense as this shows plot was devised mostly with that two season order in mind and yet the plot of this episode still does feel like it's own unique thing as you don't really have to have watched the previous season to get the plot of this episode. Yet the thing that does let down this episodes plot is the fact that it's not the strongest plot to start the season out with and with any TV show you always want to start with your best foot forward with this episodes plot feeling very weak and like it was thought up very quickly as alot of what was said in this episode does appear to be nothing all that major with the plot of this episode 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 / Daredevil and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk. Also starring in this episode is Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page , Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn , Matthew Lillard as Mr. Charles , Tony Dalton as Jack Duquesne , Michael Gandolfini as Daniel Blake , Nikki M. James as Kirsten McDuffie , Arty Froushan as Buck Cashman , Genneya Walton as BB Urich , Zabryna Guevara as Sheila Rivera , Clark Johnson as Cherry , Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk , Hamish Allan-Headley as Connor Powell , Ty Jones as Steverud , John Benjamin Hickey as Benjamin Hochberg , Thomas Cokenias as Achilleo Kyriaco , Yorgos Karamihos as Christofi Savva , Annie Parisse as Ariana , Lenny Platt as Juan Gomez and Michael Anthony Cruz as Longshoreman.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting 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 acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this shows main actors giving us some really good performances which given just whom is starring in this episode is something that was quite frankly to be expected where te acting does somewhat start to faulter is with it's guest actors as alot of them either overact in every scene that there in or show next to no emotion in scenes that do require emotion with the best example of this being in the episodes opening where a ships captain and his possibly second in command are talking while Daredevil is attacking there ship and yet they both don't show any kind of urgency as they play it off as being just another day at the office for them when this is something that would require alot of emotion. With the best actor in this episode being Matthew Lillard as Mr. Charles as not only does Matthew Lillard prove once again why he's a good actor and why he's having some really good few years acting wise but he does come across as being a less cocky version of Fisk himself with him and Vincent D'Onofrio really having some really good chemistry together which is something that does make all of there scenes together all the mor fun to watch. With the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written 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 episode.

 

Doing the CGI for this episode is Ingenuity Studios and 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 this very episode 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 episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode mainly using CGI in the way that it should be used as it's only used to extend sets and that's really it so no need to to fear there is no CGI smoke in this episode with the episode very much like the show on the whole preferring to us practical effects over CGI effects with the episodes practical effects working really well and blending it well with the episodes CGI. The episode does even manage to gave some fairly convincing looking water effects which is impressive on it's own as water is one of the most difficult things to get right on a feature film budget let alone on a streaming show budget and while they don't quite get it right here given that the scene that it appears in as at night it is forgivable even taking into account that this is a Disney show while there are some kind of bad looking green screen effects done on certain characters it's not really all that distracting it's just something that you will notice and that's really it but to be fair to this episode tho this show isn't an effects heavy show it never was in the first season and it looks like that's going to be true for this season as well and therefor for them to have good looking effects that blend in really well with what filmed for real is still something that's truly special to be hold.

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To be blunt Fisk in this episode doesn't really have that much on an impact on the episode as a whole as the only thing that he does is tell his task force officers to track down the two people on the ship and have a meeting with Mr. Charles. Which fair enough is still a solid enough way to use the character but when you bare in mind that season one of this show used the character so well by showing him being this manipulative person who is really willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals it makes what they do with him in this episode feel less impactful as they could have shown him and his wife filming fake videos to release to the public which is something that does get shown quite alot in this episode and they could have shown him getting mad when he finds out that one of his boats was attacked just something that would let us the audience know that Daredevil is starting to get to him and that he's starting to loose it. Yet at the same time tho the fact that they don't do any of that does make you wonder what he's really thinking as we all know from both the Netflix show and this shows first season that Wilson Fisk is a character who is always thinking two or three moves ahead of everyone else and therefor when he discovers that one of his boats was attacked he would already be thinking of ways to hurt or persons responsible for the attack in the first place and heck it could even be argued that this character is more scary when we don't see him react to it as we know just how evil that this character really is in the first place and while it is of course far two early to work out just what his grand scheme is for New York we know that it is something that is going to be scary just due to the fact that he is a creepy and scary character.

Much like how in the first episode of the previous season where they killed of Foggy Nelson here in this episode they hint at the fact that Cherry might be dead. Due to the fact that at the end of the episode when members of the task force come to interrogate him they give him a beating which his heart can't handle and starts to suffer a heart attack right there as Matt as Daredevil is trying to fight them off. With it being that very incident that made this review got from a SPOILER FREE review to a SPOILER FILLED review as while Cherry isn't as beloved of a character as Foggy was he was still a core member of Matt's inner circle of friends and having the episode eve hint at him dying was something that will be shocking thing to see but it is one that could have been handled more better due to the fact that they have it be the episodes cliff hanger which don't get wrong is a great cliff hanger to have as it makes you want to watch episode two of this show. On the flip side of that tho is the fact that it's pretty obvious that there not going to kill him off as then they would risk repeating everything that they did in the first season with Foggy's death and even then his death only worked due to the fact that the character appeared on the Netflix show and therefor the fans of that show already have that connection to his character where as here with Cherry he's a newly introduced character and therefor having him be killed of in a way that granted is still quite shocking to see just wouldn't have the same effect as when Foggy was killed of. However tho having Cherry be the one to possibly die would be a great way to rise the stakes a little bit as it would still tell us the audience that if this character can die then maybe Matt himself can die.

Also in that ending scene we do get a hint that Bullseye is going to be playing a big part in either the rest of the season or the next episode. As we see a knife come into Cherry's apartment and take out all of the task force agents which if so is going to make for an interesting next few episodes as it was him that killed of Foggy so having him and Matt sort of form a team even tho that both don't like each other is something that will make it interesting to see if they both can get along for the greater good and heck even the tease of him coming back in the next episode is a solid way to end the episode as now we the audience get to make theories on if he's going to be working with Matt or not or if he's saving Matt so that he can take him down himself. All of which are things that would work well for his character as while I never saw that much of the Netflix show based on his few appearances in the previous season of this show he does seem like the kind of character who would want to save the man that did try to kill him just so that he could be the one to deliver the killing blow himself but of course there could be another reason as to why he was teased at the end of this episode all of which do make this show fun to watch as there are so many theories that we all could come up with and the best part of all is that until any of them are confirmed by the show itself they could all be true and yet knowing the makers of this show there going to do the one thing that none of us would have thought of what it ends up being. While yes it would have worked just as well if they did show us the character even if it's just quickly very early on in the episode the fact that they didn't do that makes his possible return at the end of the episode all the more exciting.

Now then this film has / had an exact gran total running time of exactly fifty minuets and forty two seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this shows episodes to have in the first place with this episode having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot with the plot of the episode feeling like it's playing second fiddle to everything else that's going on in the episode and yet when you compare it to the plot of the first episode of the previous season that episodes plot was as well developed as it was going to be given the fact that it was the first episode of a new show and yet here in this episode it felt like the makers of this show forgot how to make a good first episode as everything just felt very by the numbers with very little of what the episodes plot does do feeling earned. With the same thing being true for the episodes characters as well altho here you could make the argument that all of them don't really need there character development as alot of the older characters would of course have had the Netflix show and the first season of this show to get there character development which is fair enough and for the new characters you could make the case that they are going to be getting there character development in future episodes of this season but either way it still would have been nice if we got to find something literally anything about this episodes new characters as we find out nothing about Mr. Charles outside of possibly where was born and we get to find out nothing about Ariana this is despite the fact that she's technically a major character in this 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 gave to actually talk about the action action 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 action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episode having all of the really good action that you have come to expect from this show not only from the previous season but also from the Netflix show as well with the episodes action looking as impressive as you'd want it to be given the fact that it's Daredevil and to the episodes credit it doesn't shy away from showing the hero getting beaten up something which they very easily could have done but the fact that they didn't do that does oddly make Matt Murdock seem more human. With the best action scene un the whole entire episode being the episodes opening scene as we get to see Matt as daredevil take on several guys basically at once in the cargo area of a ship with him flipping them into boxes and knocking them all out in really creative ways all which does make that action really fun to watch as much like how the action in the opening of James Bond film gets you excited for the rest of the film it could be argued that that's what that opening action scene does. The episode does even somewhat contrast that by having a more smaller action scene at the end of the episode where daredevil now has to take about four task force agents in Cherry's home with Daredevil winning the fight until he hears Cherry's heart and realizes what's going on which does give those agents the moment that they need to go in for the kill with them only being stopped by Bullseye's knife attacking and killing all four of them with the rest of the action in this episode being really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall for an episode that was barely promoted as there's only really been one trailer and three posters released for this new season this episode is still a really good as it does a good job of setting up the rest of the season whilst doing the one thing that all good first episodes should do and that's make you want to watch episode two as that's just how good that this episode really is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well a all of the bad thigs that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does ern 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 that I personally used in this very review 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 review from 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 post being the really great Google Images 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 really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

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.