Superhero Fear: A Daredevil Review

So, I just finished watching Daredevil season 3 on Netflix and I could not have more thoughts on my mind to share with your guys!

First thing's first: I would rank the daredevil seasons from amazing to good in the following order:

1. Season 2

2. Season 3

3. Season 1

You may wonder why, and this review is the reason why.

This season was amazing, it went by quite quickly and it probably impacted me emotionally more than any of the Netflix Marvel series so far. It is a heavy season, it is a smart season and most of all it is a Surprising season in every positive way posible. I still think that season 2 was the most excited I have been for a season and all in all an incredible action packed season. The elektra part did not hold up as much as I wished but the punisher made up for any lost capability.

Season 3 has one flaw, the opening makes daredevil too unlikable, too negative, too broken... I honestly believe one of Daredevil's strongest traits as a hero is his undeniable relationship with his faith, his God. In the comics he constantly is questioning God, confessing his sins to father Lantom and is confronted with his inner demons every hard turn he takes; so I thought the introduction to his character in this season was weaker than it could have been. I understand they probably wanted to make his journey out of desperation seem larger, but there could have been many other ways than to just introduce him as a broken man who casts aside his "human side" to just become the devil of Hell's Kitchen.

I absolutely Loved the amount of context that this binge format allows the story to tell. Jay Ali as special agent Ray Nadeem of the FBI was one of the secondary characters I have most been impacted by in any series in a LONG time, he was a correct man who got overtaken by the system and, while he always tried to do the right thing, he ended up being exactly what the KingPin wanted him to be. The empathy we got with him through family was flipped on its head when he lacked that same empathy with agent Poindexter when he was being turned. We get to see the real impact of KingPin and his true power and relationship with Daredevil through the people that are caught in the middle of their war. Agent Nadeem being the one who repented of his acts, while agent Poindexter embraced the hatred that grew in him.

The number one thing I feel people do not talk enough about is Wilson Fisk. This is one of the most amazing and well portrayed villains in a LONG time. He is complex, he is strategic, he is human and yet more and more as the season goes by seems more powerful and unbeatable than ever. I LOVED to see him at work in converting Benjamin Poindexter into Bullseye and destroying as many lives as he has to in order to get what he wants. You realize how he is a villain that a "a man who has no fear" should fear... He destroys you without ever fighting you, the planning, the ego, the love for Vanessa, the capability of empathy and reading both foes and allies make him the most powerful and scary villains in any of the Netflix Marvel series.

Speaking of power and villains, the introduction to agent Ben Poindexter a.k.a. Bullseye is one of my favorite scenes ever, I thought the deconstruction of this character and his descent to villainy is great and you understand and at points even feel bad for him. He became a pawn, but since the beginning you could see a shadow of a heinous person underneath the "correct soldier". Character development is by far the strength of Daredevil as a series: Kingpin and daredevil in season 1, Frank Castle a.k.a. the punisher in season 2, and in season 3 Bullseye and agent Ray Nadeem.

Please treat yourself to the daredevil trilogy, it is a great, realistic, gritty, dark, emotional journey through a hero who is nothing more than a man that is trying to figure out why he wants to be a hero.