DAREDEVIL on Netflix

[Peven]

[Ribbons]

^^ I just got to this episode. The supercool backflip at the end was gratuitous and a little unnecessary, but the rest of it was awesome.

Liking the season so far, but they're coming dangerously close to glorifying the Punisher.

[TheButcher]

SDCC: "Daredevil" Season 3 Ordered By Netflix SDCC:
Marvel executive Joe Quesada confirmed that a third season of Netflix's "Daredevil" is on the way.

‘The Defenders’ Teaser Previews Marvel’s Netflix Team-Up Series; 2017 Release Date Confirmed

‘Luke Cage': Sweet Christmas, the First Trailer Has Arrived!

SDCC '16: Check Out The First Trailer For Marvel And Netflix's IRON FIST

[Wolfpack]

SDCC: "Daredevil" Season 3 Ordered By Netflix SDCC:
Marvel executive Joe Quesada confirmed that a third season of Netflix's "Daredevil" is on the way.

‘The Defenders’ Teaser Previews Marvel’s Netflix Team-Up Series; 2017 Release Date Confirmed

‘Luke Cage': Sweet Christmas, the First Trailer Has Arrived!

SDCC '16: Check Out The First Trailer For Marvel And Netflix's IRON FIST

Looks like there's a lot of navel-gazing angst coming our way!

[Peven]

SDCC: "Daredevil" Season 3 Ordered By Netflix SDCC:
Marvel executive Joe Quesada confirmed that a third season of Netflix's "Daredevil" is on the way.

‘The Defenders’ Teaser Previews Marvel’s Netflix Team-Up Series; 2017 Release Date Confirmed

‘Luke Cage': Sweet Christmas, the First Trailer Has Arrived!

SDCC '16: Check Out The First Trailer For Marvel And Netflix's IRON FIST

Looks like there's a lot of navel-gazing angst coming our way!

the Netflix Marvel series are the best thing going in comic adaptations. period.

[Ribbons]

Is this going to get a DVD release at some point?

Why don't you just Netflix it? Or give a pirate subscription link on a piece of paper to whoever you're giving this a Christmas present to?

Daredevil Season 1 is finally coming to Blu-ray on October 3rd:

http://www.newsarama.com/29970-is-netflix-s-daredevil-coming-out-on-dvd-blu-ray.html

...but only in the UK.

[TheButcher]

‘Daredevil’ Season 1 Coming to Blu-ray
The Man Without Fear will hit shelves in November.

[Ribbons]

Fucking finally!

[TheButcher]

Marvel's Iron Fist | Official Trailer

[TheButcher]

Bleeding Cool;
EW Quietly Confirms ‘Jessica Jones’, ‘Daredevil’, And ‘Luke Cage’ For 2018

[Peven]

why would you put that in spoiler black out?

[Wolfpack]

why would you put that in spoiler black out?

Maybe it's more about what isn't there than what is.

[Ribbons]

If you're implying Iron Fist dies in The Defenders or something I would say probably not? But I admire your diligence nevertheless.

[Peven]

i am trying to get through season 1 of Iron Fist right now, and I think killing him off in The Defenderscould be a crowd pleasing move

[TheButcher]

Scott Glenn on 'The Defenders' and Why 'Silence of the Lambs' Is a Coming-of-Age Movie
Legendary actor talks Marvel, that incredible 'Leftovers' speech, Altman, Demme, 'The Right Stuff' and why his single most important role has no lines

[TheButcher]

VARIETY SEPTEMBER 20, 2017:
Defenders Is Marvel/Netflix’s Least-Watched Series to Date

Turns out that as a crime-fighting quartet, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist together may be weaker than they are as solo vigilantes.

“Marvel’s The Defenders,” featuring the street-hero characters, was the least-watched Netflix Marvel original series premiere in the U.S. as measured over the first 30 days of viewership, according to an analysis by Jumpshot, a marketing-analytics firm.

For the comparison, Jumpshot created an index benchmarking each of the Netflix Marvel series against the top-viewed of the bunch, which was “Daredevil” season 2 in March 2016. Following its Aug. 18 premiere, “The Defenders” clocked in with just 17% of the viewership that “Daredevil” season two received in the first 30 days. The study looked at Netflix U.S. subs who watched at least one episode of each series.

Compared with “The Defenders,” the previous premieres of “Iron Fist,” “Luke Cage” and “Jessica Jones” performed relatively equally in the first 30 days, accounting for 28%, 27% and 26% of “Daredevil” season 2’s viewership, respectively. In addition to being the least-viewed of the group, “The Defenders” also had the largest week-over-week drop in viewership, declining by 67%, 48% and 41%, respectively, over the 30-day period, per Jumpshot.

Netflix doesn’t release viewing data, leaving industry players to rely on estimates from third parties. But execs from the streaming-video company have routinely questioned the validity of attempts to gauge consumption on its global platform.

Moreover, Netflix evaluates the full performance of its content on its VOD service over a longer span than just 30 days. But the initial consumption of a series is often a good indicator of its long-term performance, and it’s worth noting that “The Defenders” showed a significant drop in viewers in the first month on the service.

The eight-episode miniseries “Marvel’s The Defenders” tells the story of Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Iron Fist (Finn Jones), who reluctantly band together to save New York City from criminal mastermind Alexandra Reid (Sigourney Weaver).

Why did “The Defenders” mashup get a colder shoulder than its predecessor series? One explanation may be that each of the individual street heroes appeals to different kinds of viewers, at least among Netflix members who had never watched content tagged as in the “superhero” genre before.

According to a Netflix news release, one-eighth of the viewers for the Marvel street-hero series were new to the comic-book genre. Among this group of newbies, “Daredevil” viewers gravitate toward storylines featuring antiheroes and moral ambiguity; “Jessica Jones” attracted those attuned to “sharp humor and dark crime”; “Luke Cage” watchers tended to prefer stories about “dangerous worlds and complex consequences”; and “Iron Fist” drew in fans of coming-of-age tales.

For the data on Netflix originals, Jumpshot looked at the viewing behavior and activity of the company’s U.S. members. The San Francisco-based company analyzes anonymized click-stream data from a panel of more than 100 million internet consumers, amounting to some 160 billion individual data points per month. The data excludes viewing that occurs on connected-TV platforms or Netflix mobile apps, but Jumpshot says its benchmark analysis reflects aggregate viewing on the platform.

Deadline October 25, 2017:
Erik Oleson Joins ‘Daredevil’ Season 3 As New Showrunner

[Fievel]

Joanne Whalley Is Maggie In “Daredevil”

I didn't know the former Mrs. Kilmer was still acting. I'm very curious to see her as Maggie in what is my personal favorite Daredevil story.

.....and I still haven't watched Defenders.

[Ribbons]

I don't have any thoughts about Joanne Whaley, but I'm glad to hear they're finally tackling the "Born Again" storyline. There's no way it'll be as fucked up as Frank Miller's version (I highly doubt that Karen Page becomes a crackwhore for example), but maybe that's not the worst thing.

[Fievel]

Holy shit Season 2 is really good!! Maybe a little long - probably could have tightened it down to 10 episodes, but that's a minor quibble for me.
Pros
- Born Again is referenced throughout the season - from plot points to imagery lifted from the pages. I haven't read it in over 25 years and still recognized images from the comic. Will be digging it out soon.
-D'onofrio IS the Kingpin! He looks so much like the comic character that it's frightening.
- Fights! This show has really great fight scenes for a series.
Cons
-D'onofrio's voice. It sounded as if D'onofrio was constantly trying to speak in a lower tone of voice than he was actually capable of.
-Deborah Woll. I liked her in her flashback episode. That was an episode that I thought was going to be lame but turned out to be great. But she has a limited use of mannerisms and quirks that she relies on (if she did another little hyperventilating gasp one more time I was going to do my own primal scream) and I saw them all already when she was on True Blood.

Poindexter was....interesting. I loved the Bullseye bits, but the whole mental illness aspect got old quickly for me. It'll be interesting to see what he's like in the future.

[TheBaxter]

looking forward to watching this show now that i finally have netflix streaming.

[Wolfpack]

So...Daredevil has been cancelled.

[Fievel]

So...Daredevil has been cancelled.

Which comes as no surprises with Disney+ coming. Sadly I don't see Daredevil returning to Disney+ with the violence shown on Netflix.

At least it ended on a high note.

[Ribbons]

I finally got around to watching the third (and final) season of Daredevil. It was fantastic. The fact that it drew heavily from what is probably the character's best story arc in the comics certainly helps, but it was incredibly well-made regardless. The fight scenes remain brutal and peerless among the other Marvel-Netflix shows, and this is perhaps the first time watching one where I didn't get the sense that it struggled from weird pacing issues. Even the series I've enjoyed, like Daredevil S1, Jessica Jones S1, and The Punisher typically start strong out of the gate and them limp to the finish, like they ran out of plot somewhere in the middle and had to drag things along. "Born Again" is perfectly paced, each episode delivering entertainment and tension and moving the story forward in a logical way, leading to a climax that's both nerve-wracking and satisfying. It explores the religious underpinnings unique to the character in a surprisingly thoughtful way, and in providing Bullseye as a foil, does the good-evil dichotomy in a far more nuanced and believable manner than the ham-fisted conflict between Daredevil and The Punisher in season 2. I even appreciated the constant callbacks to earlier episodes, like psychopathic FBI agent Poindexter's failed attempts at empathy ("That sounds really hard") to the recurring imagery of plastic tarp, which plays a role here similar to that of oranges in the Godfather films. It's disappointing that the show was cancelled immediately afterward, but it couldn't have ended better. Even if you've never seen a minute of Daredevil, you could (and should) watch season 3.

[TheBaxter]

So...Daredevil has been cancelled.

probably because of that same Christian group that wants Good Omens cancelled. can't be having a tv show about a devil, especially one who dares.

[Wolfpack]

So...Daredevil has been cancelled.

probably because of that same Christian group that wants Good Omens cancelled. can't be having a tv show about a devil, especially one who dares.

Aye, mayhap they feel sullied by the sight of the tight red leather.