Daredevil

Season 1

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of New York City's Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood as Daredevil.

Main Characters

• Matt Murdock / Daredevil ( Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer who becomes the hero Daredevil.

• Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), an enigmatic young woman whose quest for justice sends her crashing into Murdock's life.

• Franklin "Foggy" Nelson (Elden Henson), Murdock's close friend and law partner.

• Ben Urich (Vondie Curtis-Hall ), an investigative journalist for the New York Bulletin.

• Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio), a powerful businessman whose interests in the future of Hell's Kitchen will bring him into conflict with Murdock and Daredevil.

Review

Matt Murdock is a blind attorney by day and a masked vigilante by night. He is ambitious and and starts his own law firm with his best friend Foggy Nelson and a client turned friend Karen Page. Matt Murdock lost his eyesight when he was a child in an accident due to spilling of radioactive chemicals from an oncoming vehicle. While he no longer can see, the radioactive exposure heightens his remaining senses beyond normal human ability and gives him a type of sonar which acts as his vision.  He could listen to person's heartbeat and tell if they're lying or not. 

The series starts with Matt Murdock already as a masked vigilante who fights bad people and tries to do the right thing that the law can't. Matt Murdock is trying to make the the city a better place by taking out the bad guys and trying to reach the man behind all of this, Wilson Fisk aka The Kingpin who controls the whole city. Although, throughout the series he's never mentioned as Kingpin. The story is essentially about Matt Murdock trying to bring down Wilson Fisk through his series of investigation and getting to him through the network of people who work for him, taking them out one by one.

Even though it is an origin story, I like that the series starts with Matt Murdock already as Daredevil. He is skilled and trained and is combat ready. The series is dark and gritty. The action and choreography of the stunts are amazing and the cinematography is brilliant. We can see Matt Murdock as a rookie in the beginning and getting better with experience. I also like that the background story of Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk are shown in flashbacks than starting everything from the beginning. We also see Matt Murdock fighting with his sense of morality.

As long as Matt Murdock/Daredevil is onto something or if there's an action sequence is an episode; the series is interesting. But when it's not and it's just story about the characters or current situation, it gets boring. It is not interesting throughout the series and bores you at times. Apart from that everything else is good about it. But the action is really good. That cannot be denied.

And of course as it happens in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) there are quite a few references and easter eggs and they are very subtle. We also get to see an episode where "Stick" appears. He is a blind guy, like Matt Murdock, who trained him when he was a child. As always, Stan Lee has a cameo in the series and if you can find that on your own, then you have really good observational skills.

I like this fresh take on The Daredevil, it's a good show but also is boring at times. Not sure how much a person who is not a big fan of comics and superheroes would appreciate this but if you are I'm sure you will like this.

Rating - 3.8/5