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Daredevil: Season 3


In the past, I would binge these Netflix Marvel shows in a weekend. As life has taken over, I have not been able to watch these at such a quick rate. Also, apparently, I take forever now to post about them!

This show has been out for months and I finished it a few weeks ago. What gives?? I'll do my best to share my thoughts in a coherent manner, but I make no promises. The best I can do is think about how I feel about this show after a couple of weeks.

Instead of making you wait till the end, I will tell you up front. I really loved this season. It made up for season 2, which I was not a fan of. This show took it back to basics for Matt Murdock. Don't get me wrong, I hate the "Woe is me" hero, but Matt has always been a tortured soul. We get to see him work his way back and I enjoyed watching that journey in the first few episodes after the events of the Defenders mini-series.

This season also made me realize that this show is at it's best when the central conflict is between Daredevil and the Kingpin. Watching how each of them make moves to get to the other is compelling television. This season, you get to see how far Wilson Fisk's corruption has permeated the city.

The best addition to this season was the additional characters of FBI Agents Nadeem and Poindexter. Even though it has been a few months, I don't want to give away the arcs of these characters. I will say that they get fully fleshed out and each leads to a conclusion.

I say all of this to add that I loved that Bullseye made his appearance in this show. He also makes for a great villain and he has a somewhat tragic backstory, but really, he is a complete psychopath.

The fight scenes between him and Daredevil are well choreographed and raw. Just like all the fight scenes in this show, which continue to be it's greatest strength. Seriously, they had some fantastic fight scenes in this season as well.

Going back to the characters real quick, I still like Foggy and Karen. However, I thought we got more of Karen's backstory than I really wanted. It helped provide context to events later on, but I don't think it was really necessary. I think they were just trying to give her something to do. At times, I feel like they don't know what they really want her to be. We also get to see Foggy do some stuff and show his value as well. The show is still full of superb actors and everyone does a great job.

I don't know if when this show was being made that they knew it was going to be the last season, but a lot of characters we have seen in all three seasons definitely make an appearance here. It's as if they wanted to make sure everyone gets sent off appropriately.

I hate to be cynical, but if this is truly the end of this series, it's a shame. With Netflix severing their relationship with Marvel, it's a race now to burn off the remaining shows they have left. After Iron Fist only getting 10 episodes, I was hoping this show would stick to that as well. At least the 13 episodes didn't feel too long in the tooth like past series.

If I had one gripe, I really wish we could have seen Matt back in the Daredevil costume. It appears here, but not in the manner we were hoping for.

If you haven't seen this already, be sure to check it out.
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