Daredevil Season 3 Review

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The Daredevil crew has done it again! With another fantastic season  featuring our favorite blind ninja. When Matt finds himself broken and his faith shaken after the events of The Defenders, he tries to reinvent himself into a new hero that is capable of taking criminals off the street for good, but when the time comes, is he really capable of ending a life?

The season kicks off with Matt falling out of a drain after the building collapsed on him in The Defenders, with the help of Sister Maggie, he is able to build himself back to full strength and take on the petty criminals of Hell’s Kitchen once again. When Wilson Fisk takes a deal with the FBI to be placed under house incarceration, Matt becomes hellbent on ending the Kingpin once and for all. Fisk  is able to manipulate an agent known as Ben Poindexter into helping him frame Matt for a string of mass murders by threatening the safety of a woman that Ben was in love with. Coupled with his mental instability, when Ben finds out that Fisk had her killed, he is pushed over the edge and decides to try and kill Fisk and Vanessa at their wedding. This results in a fantastically choreographed fight scene between Matt, Ben and Fisk. Matt decides to spare Fisk with the promise that he will not go near Foggy, Karen or his family ever again. The end credits reveal that Ben is being healed after his fight and a target appears in his eyes to reveal that he is Bullseye.

The best performance by far is from Charlie Cox, reprising his role as Matt once again, his scenes provide plenty of emotion and action when it calls for it. Deborah Ann Woll reprises her role as Karen Page and provides a refreshing break from the action of Matt’s scenes. Vincent D’Onofrio is just as good as in the other seasons and portrays a very intimidating version of the Kingpin. Newcomer Jay Ali portrays Agent Ray Nadeem and is excellent at conveying a struggling man doing all he can for his family.

In conclusion, season 3 of Daredevil is a well paced and balanced telling of the classic ‘Born Again’ comic storyline with some interesting new elements, and an engaging portrayal of it’s characters. 9/10


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