At Long Last, Daredevil Is Born Again With a Trial by Fire

When Netflix’s Daredevil premiered back in 2015, it felt like a breath of somber, brutal fresh air at a time when superhero fare was leaning more toward fantastic and generally lighthearted projects. In the years since the show’s end, other works like Deadpool and The Boys have delivered their own kind of comic book grit and violence, but there’s still a great fondness for seeing Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) flip around, throw his sticks at people, and generally brutalize them like the maniac he is. Daredevil: Born Again knows it has a legacy to live up to, and that audiences have been gradually drip-fed the title character’s return in recent years with Spider-Man: No Way Home, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Echo. Whereas the latter framed Matt as a force of nature that Maya Lopez barely managed to escape from, the new show opens by taking a page from Matt’s brief Spider-Man movie cameo and showing how well he’s doing for himself. He, Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), and Foggy Nelson (Eld ... Read full article.