Brilliant. Simple brilliant. Rarely, other than “Game of Thrones” have I ever been inclined to watch a series in almost its entirety one program after another as I did today. And totally, against the odds “Daredevil” achieved almost exactly that. Where to start?
Firstly the cast is almost perfect and were superbly written. Seldom have I ever seen so many characters and their backgrounds so authentically recreated and explored in a “super hero” show that made it barely feel like one. Instead it worked almost at a level like many of the gritty crime thriller films of my youth ,with newer elements from “The Raid”, “The Departed” and “The Wire” worked in.
Murdock and Fisk’s backstories were superbly done and even better ,the influence and implications of their actions on the people around them were telling and engrossing. Both Charlie Cox and especially Vincent D’onofrio deserve the huge applause for what they managed to do with their characters, Fisk is right up there with Loki or Nolans Joker as a truly memorable and complex villain. The rest of the cast were often just as outstanding and often impossible to second guess at critical moments.
And all the writers and producers deserve an award for what they managed to do with the entire series. By starting where they did, steadily developing their cast and story they have made perhaps the best comic book adaptation I have ever watched. I don’t think there was even one weakish episode ,they were all so strong. The news that Drew Goddard is apparently working on Spiderman and The Martian is just great. I hope the rest of the production team get to work on other Marvel shows.
And ,like I said before, the lack of traditional super hero “elements” in this moved it so far away from my expectations I just couldn‘t guess what would happen next and was frequently surprised and shocked, particularly by the violence.
I suspect the parts that were left unexplored and unexplained ,particularly the Far Eastern themes ,will be expanded on in the next series and will be bring back Stick and the Clans. But please Netflix please release an episode perhaps every day, or couple of days. This was just too good a series to burn through it like I did.
Firstly the cast is almost perfect and were superbly written. Seldom have I ever seen so many characters and their backgrounds so authentically recreated and explored in a “super hero” show that made it barely feel like one. Instead it worked almost at a level like many of the gritty crime thriller films of my youth ,with newer elements from “The Raid”, “The Departed” and “The Wire” worked in.
Murdock and Fisk’s backstories were superbly done and even better ,the influence and implications of their actions on the people around them were telling and engrossing. Both Charlie Cox and especially Vincent D’onofrio deserve the huge applause for what they managed to do with their characters, Fisk is right up there with Loki or Nolans Joker as a truly memorable and complex villain. The rest of the cast were often just as outstanding and often impossible to second guess at critical moments.
And all the writers and producers deserve an award for what they managed to do with the entire series. By starting where they did, steadily developing their cast and story they have made perhaps the best comic book adaptation I have ever watched. I don’t think there was even one weakish episode ,they were all so strong. The news that Drew Goddard is apparently working on Spiderman and The Martian is just great. I hope the rest of the production team get to work on other Marvel shows.
And ,like I said before, the lack of traditional super hero “elements” in this moved it so far away from my expectations I just couldn‘t guess what would happen next and was frequently surprised and shocked, particularly by the violence.
I suspect the parts that were left unexplored and unexplained ,particularly the Far Eastern themes ,will be expanded on in the next series and will be bring back Stick and the Clans. But please Netflix please release an episode perhaps every day, or couple of days. This was just too good a series to burn through it like I did.
