Marvel's Daredevil on Netflix Is One Hell of a Trip
I like programming such as Boardwalk Empire, Homeland, The Soprano's, and House of Cards. I guess I could enjoy shows that appear on the regular networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, but because of content restrictions, they are most often boring and they just don't hold my interest. Even some of what is not regular network programming, such as The Walking Dead, also don't hold my attention. I tried, I really tried with that one, taking in the first full season. To me, just boring shit. Killing bunch of Zombies by characters that I couldn't get into. No, I like Zombie movies but The Walking Dead? Sorry. There is a lot of excellent and highly produced shows with outstanding production values on various smaller cable networks to go along with the superior stuff at places like Netflix, Showtime, and HBO. I will try to give some though on some of the best (in my opinion) on what you can find on television, either broadcast or cable, or streaming. I will start with the just recently released Daredevil (Season One) on Netflix. The season was released on the same day, all 13 episodes, in early April, 2015. It will be followed by Season Two next year in April and the Marval/Netflix combo will expand the franchised cooperation which I will expand on later.
DAREDEVIL (MARVEL/NETFLIX)
I was hooked at the first scene, then the credits that immediately followed, then a fast 56 minutes of non-stop intellectual excitement and character development that was as good as a first run major-motion picture. In fact, as comic books go
with super-heroes, the character DAREDEVIL has a story line that is as finely tuned as Superman, better than Batman, and rivals anything Spiderman has to offer.
What I will not do is give you the particulars in this series. You would either be interested in comic book characters or you wouldn't be. If you want those intricate details go look them up on Wiki. I will say that if you enjoy stuff like Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and the rest of Marvel's cast of characters, you will like what this series gives you. In Daredevil we have a deep thinking person in Matt Murdock/Daredevil, that has a soul that struggles with right and wrong, good and evil, and God and the Devil. He is a person that struggles within the framework of Hell's Kitchen in New York City, This is truly a place of Hell with foes that might be of the evil one. Charlie Cox plays the conflicted Matt Murdock, a product of the Kitchen, blinded by sight but ever seeing the world with powers that are given only to a few. Cox, a strong character in Boardwalk Empire, has made his nitch as the one and only Matt Murdock/Daredevil. His humanity comes through, yet his disdain for evil is not that of a choir boy. His meeting with the local priest are telling, as the Father always asks Matt if he want to confess in every meeting they have. The answer is always no. Matt knows the consequences of being Catholic and his inner turmoil is troubling to the viewer. Good and bad are easy to discriminate when the story line is linear, but when the good guy is not all good, does things that are not of God, we become hooked. Same for the evil ones in this series. Vincent D'Onofrio (Law and Order), is as bad as they come. Yet you feel for his situation, his soul, even if he might be the Devil on earth. As bad as they come, he loves, he feels, and he especially hates.
The action is violent within the framework of a comic book setting. The language is strong. The story line is not for children or families. This would be an R if shown in the theaters. The 13 or so hours of the first year are engrossing as the actors are given convincing lines They are not rushed as the interplay between the characters is just right (as in a Quinton T movie). The fight scenes are somewhat over-the-top, something you would expect from a Marvel production. It will be a long ten months until Season 2 comes around.
Daredevil is just one of 4 Marvel super-heroes that will grace Netfllix in the next years. And the five will combine into a stand alone series on the pay service in a couple of years, "The Defenders" as it is known in the comic book world.
DAREDEVIL (MARVEL/NETFLIX)
I was hooked at the first scene, then the credits that immediately followed, then a fast 56 minutes of non-stop intellectual excitement and character development that was as good as a first run major-motion picture. In fact, as comic books go
with super-heroes, the character DAREDEVIL has a story line that is as finely tuned as Superman, better than Batman, and rivals anything Spiderman has to offer.
What I will not do is give you the particulars in this series. You would either be interested in comic book characters or you wouldn't be. If you want those intricate details go look them up on Wiki. I will say that if you enjoy stuff like Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and the rest of Marvel's cast of characters, you will like what this series gives you. In Daredevil we have a deep thinking person in Matt Murdock/Daredevil, that has a soul that struggles with right and wrong, good and evil, and God and the Devil. He is a person that struggles within the framework of Hell's Kitchen in New York City, This is truly a place of Hell with foes that might be of the evil one. Charlie Cox plays the conflicted Matt Murdock, a product of the Kitchen, blinded by sight but ever seeing the world with powers that are given only to a few. Cox, a strong character in Boardwalk Empire, has made his nitch as the one and only Matt Murdock/Daredevil. His humanity comes through, yet his disdain for evil is not that of a choir boy. His meeting with the local priest are telling, as the Father always asks Matt if he want to confess in every meeting they have. The answer is always no. Matt knows the consequences of being Catholic and his inner turmoil is troubling to the viewer. Good and bad are easy to discriminate when the story line is linear, but when the good guy is not all good, does things that are not of God, we become hooked. Same for the evil ones in this series. Vincent D'Onofrio (Law and Order), is as bad as they come. Yet you feel for his situation, his soul, even if he might be the Devil on earth. As bad as they come, he loves, he feels, and he especially hates.
The action is violent within the framework of a comic book setting. The language is strong. The story line is not for children or families. This would be an R if shown in the theaters. The 13 or so hours of the first year are engrossing as the actors are given convincing lines They are not rushed as the interplay between the characters is just right (as in a Quinton T movie). The fight scenes are somewhat over-the-top, something you would expect from a Marvel production. It will be a long ten months until Season 2 comes around.
Daredevil is just one of 4 Marvel super-heroes that will grace Netfllix in the next years. And the five will combine into a stand alone series on the pay service in a couple of years, "The Defenders" as it is known in the comic book world.
