Parker Sublette
Staff Writer
A blind lawyer, a fat lawyer, and a blonde walk into bar. Sounds like a setup for a bad joke but in actuality it’s just “Marvel’s Daredevil”.
“Daredevil’s” second season provides for an extremely entertaining thirteen episodes of exciting and thrilling events. “Daredevil” delivers well executed fight scenes, political and judicial intrigue, and thought provoking plot.
Season two of “Daredevil” depicts the mild mannered blind lawyer Matt Murdock’s fight against injustice both in the light and out of it’s reach. Murdock’s vigilante activities inspire another man by the name of Frank Castle (A.K.A Punisher) to take up the fight against crime, but Castle’s methods are much less merciful than Murdock’s.
“Daredevil” succeeds where many other comic book (“Arrow”, “Supergirl”, “Flash”, etc…) shows fail, in the dialogue. Not only does “Daredevil” provide for thought provoking conversations between characters that make one ponder the true meaning and intent of the justice system and whether or not death is something to take lightly. Whether or not one wants to ponder these things it is simple proof that “Daredevil” doesn’t overlook the dialogue.
Season two of “Daredevil” also continues the legacy that season left of extremely intense and well-choreographed fight scenes. Fight scenes in “Daredevil” are more than just a flurry of fists with flip mixed in to make it look neat. The fight scenes are displayed in such a manner that when watching one feels the exhaustion Murdock feels in the fights due to the well done cinematography as well as how the fights transpire.
Political intrigue is a form of conflict and plot that is well-done rarely in modern television, but “Daredevil” manages to make it enticing. The fact that Murdock is a lawyer obviously lends the show to contain some political and judicial jargon here and there, but by taking it one step further and making the court system clash with the vigilantes it provides for extremely absorbing and tense plot development.
As said before with the complex and provoking dialogue the show makes one think and contemplate philosophical and ideological matters. The juxtaposition of Murdock with characters like Wilson Fisk and Frank Castle, who all want similar things (a better tomorrow for their city) but go about it in extremely different manners. This combined with Murdock’s repeated trust of the justice system (and its failure) leads one to have similar doubts and thoughts regarding the state of our courts of law in a similar way to Murdock.
To top it all off “Daredevil” provides incredibly dramatic character interaction between the three main protagonists (Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, and Karen Page). The character dynamics of these three not only make for exciting interpersonal drama but also for an interesting form of developing the plot, following the way in which Murdock’s secret life affects them all whether they know about it or not.
The immense amount of praise and recommendations being heaped upon “Daredevil” is well deserved. A show that is as incredibly well written and well developed as it is should be on the top of anyone’s To Watch list for the coming months. However, seeing as the show is on Netflix binge watching it is a serious temptation to all.
Marvel’s Daredevil is available as a Netflix original on Netflix only.
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