Daredevil S3: Are We Impressed?
Daredevil S3 follows Matt Murdock / Daredevil, a blind lawyer-by-day who fights crime at night. When Wilson Fisk is released from prison, Murdock must decide between hiding from the world or embracing his life as a hero vigilante.
As is usual with all of Netflix's marvel shows, Daredevil s3 started off strongly and levelled out as the show progressed and picked up the pace in the final 3 episodes. This has been and continues to be a problem with Netflix's marvel shows which they are yet to address. It has played out in Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and here it is again bedevilling the Devil himself.
The 3rd season began at a tremendously ridiculous and frenzied pace, even the attempt to slow down the pace by unwittingly creating emotionally touching and distressing scenes only seemed to spur the audience into paying more attention to the development of the character as the episodes progressed.
Even though the first episodes seemed to have created a lot of Predictable circumstances, we were still very much invested in the story being told and the ability of the story teller to tell the story without unnecessarily diluting the content. We really loved how the story unfolded over the course of the first 4 episodes, as we witnessed the rapid transition from the devil we used to know, into a resigned, cowered and weak willed Former vigilante/ Lawyer. It felt good to finally see a marvel character stripped down to the barest form, a return to humble beginnings, and a strategic effort to build up the character past the level we have come to associate him/ her with. It felt awesome, very good, and deletable and absolutely made a feast of this one.
We will quickly address the story and the conflict/ plot theme elements of the 3rd season which we felt was a little too Predictable. What we definitely can't fault is the way the show runner elected to create the conflict; the absolutely perfect way in which the character of Kingpin was created, and the queer and unconventional way in which the king of Hell's Kitchen was returned to his throne. Creative genius!!
The conflict element may have felt a little too simple, but the diversification of points of conflicts made it really rivetting and a solid narrative to follow. We do however feel that the season felt a little too Predictable ,from the declaration by The protagonist to leave behind the persona of Murdock and his secret identity of Daredevil, to his declaration of Intent to end Wilson Fisk, to the impact and Predictable fate of Agent Nadeem. They all felt too Predictable and capable of being resolved in only one way and no way other, and it did resolve itself in the exact same way.
Moreover, we felt the show runner tried a little too hard to build up the character of Ben Poindexter aka Bullseye, and ended up not achieving much in the way of character development. Up till the very end of the show, it felt off having him as Bullseye and the character development didn't work the magic that we witnessed with Mary Walker from Iron Fist s2. One thing we must however commend is the acting, and combat proficiency of Poindexter. It was brilliant and felt as though he had done a lot of work as Bullseye before.
So, whereas it felt off building his character up in the way attempted, he did prove to be a very good fit for the role of Bullseye, with particular regards to combat proficiency and character on screen carriage and performance.
Apart from the foregoing, the season is a very solid one, the characters have been brilliant, the show creator and the show runner have delivered some amazing TV content and we must applaud their efforts. The supporting cast to my mind have done an even better job than we could reasonably have hoped to expect, Nadeem(Jay Ali), Karen Page ( Deborah Ann Woll), Maggie Grace( Joanne Whalley) have been particularly outstanding and astonishing.
The on screen performance of Joanne Whalley (sister Maggie) and the story woven around her was brilliant, and was able to keep the tremendous pace for the first few episodes going. We have come to love her as the 'mother' of the show.
At the risk of revealing too much, this is a good tvshow, great storyline for the season, amazing conflict and excellent acting by the cast. It may have felt a little too Predictable at some points, but a very solid season for Marvel fans.
Should we expect a 4th Season? We definitely do hope for a 4th, but if Netflix decides not to renew it for a 4th Season, we may be comfortable in the near definite conclusion to the 3rd season. Fans were not so frenzied about the big reveal at the end of the show, and most rightly so. Bullseye just doesn't come off as a character around whom a whole season may be built. Period!
It is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios, with Erik Oleson serving as showrunner, and series creator Drew Goddard acting as consultant.
Charlie Cox( Matt) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Fisk) reprise their roles for the 3rd season.
FCA's AppR: 8/10.
We will quickly address the story and the conflict/ plot theme elements of the 3rd season which we felt was a little too Predictable. What we definitely can't fault is the way the show runner elected to create the conflict; the absolutely perfect way in which the character of Kingpin was created, and the queer and unconventional way in which the king of Hell's Kitchen was returned to his throne. Creative genius!!
The conflict element may have felt a little too simple, but the diversification of points of conflicts made it really rivetting and a solid narrative to follow. We do however feel that the season felt a little too Predictable ,from the declaration by The protagonist to leave behind the persona of Murdock and his secret identity of Daredevil, to his declaration of Intent to end Wilson Fisk, to the impact and Predictable fate of Agent Nadeem. They all felt too Predictable and capable of being resolved in only one way and no way other, and it did resolve itself in the exact same way.
Moreover, we felt the show runner tried a little too hard to build up the character of Ben Poindexter aka Bullseye, and ended up not achieving much in the way of character development. Up till the very end of the show, it felt off having him as Bullseye and the character development didn't work the magic that we witnessed with Mary Walker from Iron Fist s2. One thing we must however commend is the acting, and combat proficiency of Poindexter. It was brilliant and felt as though he had done a lot of work as Bullseye before.
So, whereas it felt off building his character up in the way attempted, he did prove to be a very good fit for the role of Bullseye, with particular regards to combat proficiency and character on screen carriage and performance.
Apart from the foregoing, the season is a very solid one, the characters have been brilliant, the show creator and the show runner have delivered some amazing TV content and we must applaud their efforts. The supporting cast to my mind have done an even better job than we could reasonably have hoped to expect, Nadeem(Jay Ali), Karen Page ( Deborah Ann Woll), Maggie Grace( Joanne Whalley) have been particularly outstanding and astonishing.
The on screen performance of Joanne Whalley (sister Maggie) and the story woven around her was brilliant, and was able to keep the tremendous pace for the first few episodes going. We have come to love her as the 'mother' of the show.
At the risk of revealing too much, this is a good tvshow, great storyline for the season, amazing conflict and excellent acting by the cast. It may have felt a little too Predictable at some points, but a very solid season for Marvel fans.
Should we expect a 4th Season? We definitely do hope for a 4th, but if Netflix decides not to renew it for a 4th Season, we may be comfortable in the near definite conclusion to the 3rd season. Fans were not so frenzied about the big reveal at the end of the show, and most rightly so. Bullseye just doesn't come off as a character around whom a whole season may be built. Period!
It is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios, with Erik Oleson serving as showrunner, and series creator Drew Goddard acting as consultant.
Charlie Cox( Matt) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Fisk) reprise their roles for the 3rd season.
FCA's AppR: 8/10.
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