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When it swings, it swings hard. (Potential Spoilers)

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, is what I would call as a fun, entertaining and overall good improvement contrasted with the scattered mess of season 1’s approach to pacing and narrative structure.

All that being said, this new season still has some issues with its overall pacing and I have yet to be fully won over by the new supporting cast of characters. The first sort of two episodes felt kind of subdued and was rather bored to an extent of the whole boat being capsized in New York and Matt and Karen having to find new ways to stop Wilson Fisk’s reign as New York Mayor, enforcing Martial Law with the Safer Street Initiative that is designed to keep ‘vigilantes’ specifically in check with special police operatives that can use violence and intimidation, without legal pushback. Must remind you of something akin to real life…

What really eased me into this new season was more Bullseye screentime, played by the excellent Wilson Bethel. He stole the spotlight and I very much like the approach of his twisted sense of morality and how he leaned more into being insane and unpredictable being both slapstick and unnerving with brutal efficiency. The action scenes are incredibly stylistic, although at some points the fight scenes can be a bit too kinetic at times with a lot of cuts. At times the camerawork felt a little overdone, but what you get is highly engaging action and set-pieces.

Which leaves my gripes, in that the overall season felt a bit disjointed in terms of how each storyline lacked a smooth transition and through line to the next lacking a real personal investment with the new supporting cast kind of falling flat to me. There is less narrative whiplash compared to the first outing, but towards the end of the season it does begin to really unravel the dynamics between Fisk and Murdock and how these two will evidently be always at odds with each other. So then comes to the question: how do you solve this deadlock?

I will not go much into spoilers, but I did find it rather amusing at how everything boils down in seeing how Fisk and Murdock engage with their opposing ideals with the final resolution between these two, making me rather intrigued on what happens next.

To conclude, Daredevil: Born Again Season Two strikes hard leaving many holes you can pick apart, but leaves much on the table of what you come to enjoy and expect, from your blind crime fighting lawyer of Hell’s Kitchen.