I finished Daredevil the new Netflix series and I have to say it was great. Now I haven't watched the other Marvel series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. which all of my friends say I should but I just I haven't call me lazy, but I think the quality of both shows is pretty good. The thing I like about Daredevil is even though that it takes place in the same time frame as the movies, I think it is in between the first Avengers movie and Winter Solider, is that it really feels grounded. It is not about saving the whole world just the world that Matt Murdock and his friends live in Hell's Kitchen. It proves that even though a gigantic event like the Battle for New York happens life continues to move on and the corrupt continue to try and control everything.
Now to address the movie Daredevil I saw it a while back and I don't think it was all bad nor was it bad because of Ben Affleck was bad in it. He gave it his all and was a pretty damn good Matt Murdock, Charlie Cox is great to in the new series. What made that movie bad was the over all story and Colin Farell as Bullseye and the late Michael Clarke Duncan as Wilson Fisk. They aren't bad actors it's just that Farrell's Bullseye was just way over the top, he reminded me of kids I knew in high school who called themselves crazy and did stupid shit to justify how crazy and different they were. Duncan's portrayal as Wilson Fisk was a bit better he certainly had the size but he just played him to much like a cocky gangster, always winking at the fact that he was up to no good but owned half the city so he could do what he wanted. All of that combined with a bad story and you just have shit movie on your hands.
This new series has wiped away that movie and did Daredevil right, a gritty real world crime fighting series that is violent but not be over the top with it. The deaths that happen in it are real and even though it's split evenly among the good and bad they all hurt, especially with one of the bad guys. I didn't expect it but a good bad guy should have some humanity in them for an audience to relate to. I think that's what they did really well with Wilson Fisk played by Vincent D'Onofrio, he came off as a shadow no one knew anything about to being an awkward man who didn't know how to ask a women out, to the most brutal person in the show which he should be. I was on the fence about him at first his attempts to woo Vanessa were just painful to watch but it was interesting how she helped him brake out of his shell and become the biggest bad ass around. SPOILER ALERT: The best thing about Fisk's transformation is when he was escaping the police van and just walks past all the bodies on the ground ignoring everything. He just turned Hell's Kitchen into a warzone and he couldn't care at all. That is the Kingpin!
In short I think the show was a great origin story for a superhero that I don't think will ever really work in as a movie maybe a some short little cameos but who knows. One thing I would like in the next season is more Matt and Foggy in the courtroom because Matt is suppose to be a stellar lawyer winning most of his cases strictly by knowing the law and know how to convey that to the jury. The other thing I would like is the Fisk to become officially the Kingpin I think that will definitely happen in the next season and I can't wait. Now I'm off to see Age of Ultron shit is going to rock!
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