Daredevil

Daredevil – The Hollow of His Hand

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With looming dread, “The Hollow of His Hand” focuses on the trial of Hector Ayala (Kamar de los Reyes) which takes a turn after Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) loses his star witness and chooses to out Hector’s role as a vigilante gaining support from the jury for Hector’s service. Although Matt gets a win, and Hector goes free, at no point in the episode did it feel like Hector was destined for a happy ending. Whether he had been shanked in prison, attacked outside the courthouse, or unceremoniously killed in the street (which is what ends up happening), this was always going to end poorly for Hector.

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Daredevil: Born Again – Optics

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As Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) begins his reign as Mayor of New York City, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) takes on a case involving a good Samaritan attempting to help a man in the subway who ends up being charged with the death of a one of the attackers (who turns out to be a cop). Despite the objections of Kirsten (Nikki M. James), Matt takes the case sure of the man’s innocence. The discovery that Hector (Kamar de los Reyes) is also a street vigilante, known as the White Tiger, now outlawed by Fisk’s new administration, only makes the case hit closer to home.

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Daredevil: Born Again – Heaven’s Half Hour

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In a perfect world, the events of the first 10 minutes of Daredevil: Born Again would have taken place as part of another MCU movie or show. After the (already leaked) events that open the show, “Heaven’s Half Hour” jumps a year forward to reintroduce our core characters and new supporting ones. Bringing us back to status quo, only to jump forward to a new reality, and then likely to return back to familiar ground in a couple of episodes does feel unnecessarily messy. If these events had actually occurred a year (or more) ago, and we were left to stew on them in real time, the lose and our new introduction would have had far more dramatic effect. However, despite the glut of content Marvel continues to pour out, and attempts to keep all events connected across the MCU, none of these other shows, or even films, have had the dramatic weight to contain these sequences.

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