Well, I finally finished Daredevil Season 2, so here is my full-out review. Overall, I loved Season 2 and I'll even go out on a limb and say that I liked it more than Season 1. However, there was a point about halfway into the season where I didn't necessarily feel that way, due to some pacing problems and me not really caring for the Electra character at that point. However, after a few more episodes as I neared the finale, everything seemed to get back on track and I even started to at least be good with the Electra character and what they did with her. I still think casting could have been slightly better in the fact that it is still a bit hard to see this practically 100 pound female beating the crap out of all these ninjas. I'm not saying she has to be Ronda Rousey, but some type of muscle structure would have been nice like that of a Rebecca Ferguson in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Even just take that actress and bulk her up some. Back to the pacing thing, like Daredevil Season 1, I think a lot of the problem was that they took what probably should have been a 10 episode storyline and stretched it to the needed 13 episodes. Shoot, even Jessica Jones had that same problem. One last gripe I had was that I thought it was almost too low-budget at a point, with practically zero special effects or some crazy fun stuff, and I’m usually the guy wanting movies to tame down the special effects and CGI, and make things more grounded. However, any problem I had with that was made up for with the last few episodes in some pretty cool ways that I won’t spoil.
Enough of the negative though as this show had a ton of positives. To start with, the Punisher was everything I expected, everything I wanted, and probably some more. Jon Bernthal was the perfect casting decision and is by far the best Punisher we've seen so far. Every episode he was in was some of the best episodes of the series and he has probably cracked my top 3 of favorite MCU heroes so far with only Captain America and Iron Man ahead of him. Some of his lines and monologues were spectacular. Secondly, Season 2 took the character of Foggy, who I didn’t really care for in the first series, and kind of redeemed him a bit. He still isn’t my favorite character, but I do remotely like him now. I might even say the same thing for Karen. Lastly, I liked Matt Murdock as Daredevil in Season 1, but didn’t necessarily love him. However, Season 2 finally fully sold me on him, and of all MCU characters that might appear in the Spider-Man solo film, I hope it is him or the Punisher. Those would fit well with the comics too. Lastly, I think I saw some criticism about the ending being too open-ended and cliffhangery, which I don’t necessarily agree with. I feel like I got the closure I needed with yeah, a little bit of the cliff hanger, but not bad.
Overall, great show that was very entertaining. This series only makes me like the Netflix format that much better than a network television one where there is so many more parameters they’ve got to work within. I also liked how this series thoroughly made me excited for what is to come, particularly with Daredevil, Punisher, and “slight spoiler alert” the Kingpin.
