Daredevil
Season 3 – 9/10
There
will be spoilers. Hot off the heels of the cancellation of Luke Cage and Iron Fist the writers of Daredevil season three were like “Fuck
it, let's make this even better than the first season and pretend
that the half decent second season didn't happen!” Seriously. Cam
asked me if she needed to watch the second season to watch this and I
said that she could watch the Netflix recap and be fine. You don't
have to watch any of the spin off shows either. That Elektra stuff
was boring and terrible and dragged Daredevil down while the Punisherstuff was awesome as all get out. I was worried about this since the
second season of all these Marvel shows find ways to be horrible but
they somehow found a way to get me to watch this entire seasons in
less than twenty four hours. Did it need thirteen episodes? No. Did I
like every episode? No. I'll get to the one I didn't enjoy soon
enough. Though this season was not perfect it did more to develop
every character on screen and flesh out their stories in ways I could
not predict.
This
season starts off where the second ended. Matt Murdock played by
Charlie Cox shows up on a beach and is found by a cab driver. He
tells him to take him to church which he does. His priest and a nun
try to nurse him to health but he is stubborn as shit and thinks he
can head back out even though he is super concussed. He can't hear out
of one ear, can't smell anything, and of course is blind. Fuck it. He
heads out to fight and while handling himself well at first he ends
up getting his ass kicked. The cops come and he vanishes. But he
continues to think he can still fight. He can't! He needs to rest and
heal up but as I learned throughout this season, he is stubborn as
fuck.
This
FBI agent Ray Nadeem has to go talk to Wilson Fisk who has been
giving no information to police. One day He starts talking to Nadeem
and becomes an informer to the FBI. Guys start to get captured and
next thing you know Fisk is shanked while in the weight room. He ends
up getting transferred to a nice as place that is a hotel. Okay. I
can already feel myself slipping away. I am rambling. I am not going
to try and cover thirteen episodes of a show. Let me talk about what
I liked instead. That cop Nadeem? I liked him. He started off flat
but over time his story was great...until it ended. Poor fucker. As
for Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin? Holy shit. This guy may be the best
villain in Marvel including the movies.
Most
of what I know about Kingpin is from the old Spiderman cartoon on
Fox. Loved that shit. Vincent D'Onofrio is perfect in this role. He
is able to make the Kingpin intimidating, powerful, influential,
scary, smart, and sweet. Sometimes many of those things at the same
time. He loves his lady so much he is willing to give up his freedom
just so she does not have to be in prison. He loves her so damned
much that Daredevil refuses to believe it. Even when she wants to
know everything about his violent world he is hesitant to do so.
Kingpin ends up playing that FBI agent so hard that I went from
hating his character to feeling so bad for him. Kingpin also uses his
own violent past as a way to bond with others. Like Bullseye's crazy
ass.
Wilson
Bethel stars as Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter. When Kingpin is
being transferred the cars are attacked. Suddenly someone shows up
and its just headshot after headshot by one guy. Dex takes out like
a dozen guys all by himself before turning Kingpin in. I thought
“Okay, he is gonna save Fisk and immediately go on the run and
start hunting Daredevil down.” Nope. He takes Kingpin in and it
turns out that he is an FBI agent as well. Then we get into his past.
Holy shit. He gets his entire story fleshed out from his first murder
as a child until now. Kingpin of course finds out all of this and
exploits it by having him dress up as Daredevil and murder a room
full of people. He murders a lot of people this season. The more Dex
tries to pretend to be normal the scarier he gets and he does not
understand why people leave him or why they get nervous. Cause you
crazy as hell! He is never called Bullseye or wears the costume which
I was fine with. His ability to turn any object into a weapon is on
full display. He even whips Daredevil's ass a few times.
Karen
Page and Foggy Nelson also return played by Deborah Ann Woll and
Elden Henson. The one episode I did not enjoy was the Page flashback.
90% of the episode focused on her past that we already know about and
didn't need to see for me to understand why she is the way she is.
Her murder of one of Kingpin's number one men is also brought to
light. She reveals it to a few people including Kingpin himself which
is pretty much suicide. After revealing some of the things she has
done I would not be comfortable working with her. Foggy gets more
added to his story by introducing his family. Turns out his brother
made some shady deal that is Kingpin related which does not look good
for Foggy who is running for district attorney. Foggy continues to
believe that no matter what that the law will win out no matter how
much reality shouts that it is not and will not. Foggy does grow as a
character and I am glad that he is not as goofy as I thought he'd be.
This
season felt like they took everything I hated about the previous and
tried not to touch it. There is not a single ninja. I think Elektra
was mentioned once. Daredevil shows signs of injury and fatigue. His
fights start at 100 mph but he gets exhausted which changes the speed
and tone of the fights because he gets more desperate and violent as
it goes on. The ways they showed how influential Kingpin was made
everyone so suspect that when they turned out not to be dirty I
sighed with relief. They don't just have people scared of him for no
reason. He beats folks to death with his bare hands! Bullseye was
turned from a goofy lunatic in comics to a guy that if he went
another direction in life could have been a great hero the same way
Daredevil could have been a villain. There is a lot I am leaving out
because this season was very story heavy and I'm only babbling about
what stood out. If you are on the fence about watching because season
two was so ass garbage don't be since they cleaned up their act with
this season.
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