Daredevil: Born Again Closes With an Explosive Prelude to War

And here we are at the end of the road. The first season of Daredevil: Born Again hasn’t been without its faults, but last week’s “Isle of Joy” and our closer “Straight to Hell” has plenty of fun moments as its settles into the next chapter. A lot’s going on here, to the point it doesn’t feel like it’s just an hour long, and it’s all largely worth it in the end. Last week, we learned Vanessa hired Poindexter to kill Foggy, and “Hell” opens with a flashback of that fateful meeting. She had his actions during the original show’s third season wiped clean from his record in exchange for his services. She needs Foggy and his client dead, and Dex is the best man for this kind of job. “Your history with my husband isn’t part of this,” Vanessa says, to which Dex groggily replies: “He’s always part of this.” He’s been felt more than seen this season, but if the brief tease of him in the closing montage is any indication, he might be all over season two and make getting revenge on the Fisks his ... Read full article.