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Daredevil season 2 is another 13-episode
exploration of the Marvel Universe’s dark underbelly, along the same lines as Daredevil
season 1 and Jessica Jones season 1.
Matt Murdock is still working to balance his vigilante career with his
law practice, though he sometimes struggles finding that balance, leaving Foggy
to pick up the slack. However, Daredevil
has begun to receive quite a bit of fame in Hell’s Kitchen, with the people
cheering for his actions. Unfortunately,
Daredevil has also begun to inspire a number of copycat vigilantes, one of whom
is Frank Castle, dubbed “The Punisher.”
Where Daredevil brings the criminals down so they can be arrested and
prosecuted, the Punisher is just on a one-man killing spree.
The first four episodes of the
season serve as an excellent origin story for Frank Castle’s Punisher,
exploring the tragedy that put him on the path to dispatching vigilante
punishment as well as the ideology that drives his methods. The comic accuracy level is quite high with
this arc, particularly when it comes to the “Daredevil vs. Punisher” elements. They have a serious ideological disagreement
on what their mission is. Punisher puts
the criminals down for good; Daredevil stops them and leaves them alive so they
have a chance at redemption. However,
when you see the same criminals coming back over and over, you do have to
wonder if the Punisher has the right idea.
Elektra doesn’t show up until
about halfway into the first half (end of episode 4), but she is also just
about everything we were promised. She
pushes Matt in all the wrong directions, and does an excellent job of ruining
his life. However, in her own way
Elektra is trying to save the city from something even worse, and at a certain
point this is Matt’s biggest motivator in suiting up. It is only with the help of Elektra that Matt
even uncovers the greater threat which will likely serve as the primary
conflict for the second half of the season.
In my expectations post for this
season, I noted that I really expect some Captain America: Civil War
setup, though probably not a lot. Well,
I was correct, though you do have to read into it a little bit. Several characters discuss the benefits of Daredevil
as a hero dispatching vigilante justice on the streets. If you know what you’re looking for, it’s
pretty clear that there are some political machinations in the works against
masked vigilantes like Daredevil and the Punisher. Thus far they haven’t specifically tied it in
with the Sokovia Accords, but I do think there’s a connection—if not with the
Sokovia Accords then with Civil War itself.
If you are concerned about
graphic content, you don’t really have that much to worry about. The violence and blood factors are pretty
high—the same level as Daredevil season 1. However, the sexual content is very low: there’s a single sex scene but the most
nudity is a quick shot of what appears to be a nipple; everything else is
heavily implied. So if you were okay
with Daredevil season 1, you should be okay with the first half
of Daredevil season 2.
I hope to finish the season some
time tomorrow, so I will try to publish the second half of this review tomorrow
evening (but no promises; it is Holy Week, after all!). So far this is pretty much everything I was
hoping for, but there are two very strong plots which seem a little too
disconnected at the moment. Hopefully the
second half of the series will find a way to link them together better.
If you’ve seen the season, what
did you think of it? What do you want to
see in a potential season 3? Remember,
no spoilers in this comment section!
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