The Netflix's "Daredevil" Season 1 thread

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Take away's so far, I'm on ep 8.

Unless something big happens it will be a solid 1st season. I think that's the biggest take. if they do more seasons I expect more shyt, but for right now, I can't really say much because its not a show where you have to wait a week in between episodes.

The Kingpin and Daredevil are standouts. Both are really well done. And for the most part the cast is pretty good. IF I had to pick 3rd best I got to go with the Asian Lady ---The Russians were pretty well done as well. Also Ben Urich was casted well too.

Fight scenes are well done.

The plot is a little slow BUT, but it is paced well. It's not just balls to the wall action and the writing is good.

So far the first couple episodes are better than the other ones outside of the Kingpin centric one which i thought was dope.

So as for right now I'd give it a B.

I'm sure the last ones will be epic. Will prolly catch sometime tomorrow.
 
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Just finished.

*I think it's a "good" show. It's not great show yet (Breaking Bad season 3-4, GoT, The Wire, et al), but perhaps it can become that over time. It kinda reminds me of Arrow with a lot of the themes and such and general feel (e.g. the thin line between vengeance and justice). I'm not a big Arrow fan. Oliver's character just doesn't do much for me (sorry). Daredevil is just a a much "cooler" character in my opinion, so I enjoyed it more.

* D'Onofrio being casted as Kingpin was spot the fukk on. He really killed the role.

* I'm glad he turned full heel by the end of the season. I don't like conflicted or sympathetic villains. I like my villains to be absolute and unwavering in their villainy.

* I liked that they got away from the new client a week thing that was going on at the beginning. That was the most tedious part for me. Ultimately, it was just to setup all the moving parts of the story; the proverbial chess board.

* As fukked up as it sounds, I thought the violence was really refreshing at times and well placed. At other times I thought it was just some shyt to do because they could - like when they showed dude embedding that metal through his eye. Okay? Could've used a jump cut there and got the same effect. It seemed like they were on a 2-3 curse word per episode quota or something. As fukked up a place as Hell's Kitchen is supposed to be I needed more.

* I thought the dialogue when they'd go into religious context was the best written exposition of the season: the story the priest told about seeing the devil, Kingpin and the Good Samaritan, the opening monologue and so on. When they addressed that dynamic. They did a really good job.

* The dude that played Jack Murdock was a good actor. The girl that plays Karen is a good actor too.

* Lastly, my biggest nitpick. I know Matt isn't really "blind." But, the dude playing him does a poor as job of playing "blind." Like, when he's supposed to be blind in the presence of people or whatever. I'm talking mannerisms, how he moves, how he finds and touches things (vestibular sense). It's really bad. His movements are too definitive. If I were Karen, I'd be like, "This motherfukker can see :patrice:."
 
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