(I watched a lot of Netflix shows recently. Here's the first.)

I liked season 2 and its ninja hijinks pretty well, but I think it was a good idea to get back to basics with Daredevil as a low-budget vigilante in an improvised costume (part of which is now, hilariously, made out of a wimple stolen from a convent).

As usual, none of the stuff about "normal" people, or New York City in general, is at all convincing (even though they've stopped trying so hard to pretend that midtown Manhattan has tons of street crime)—it wouldn't have been too hard to make the subplots about law enforcement and politics make more sense than this, so I assume it just wasn't a priority.

What Daredevil is best at is emotion. ( Read more... )