Daredevil season 1 episode 111/15/2022 ![]() They tell her she can’t stay at her place that night, and Matt takes her to his home (which looks to me like a Los Angeles studio apartment, of course). Believing it to be her boss’s own work, she met with Danny in the legal department, but as soon she started talking, “things got blurry.” She found a document called “Pension Master,” which indicated a huge amount of money being smuggled as company pension through coded routing numbers. Matt and Foggy get her out, and she explains what really happened: She works with Union Allied Construction on the government contracts for New York’s West Side construction - specifically as the secretary for the chief accountant, which means reviewing pension claims. He’s right, of course: A man in a too-neat suit coerced a prison guard to kill Karen, but when he tries to choke her, she blinds him. Foggy accuses our blind superhero of being taken in by her “pretty face and questionable motives,” but Matt asks why they haven’t charged the woman yet, pointing out that there’s something weird going on. She tells them what happened - that she got drinks with the now-dead guy - and Matt, who can apparently hear heartbeats, believes her based on her steady heart rate. Her name is Karen Page, and Matt and Foggy walk in and announce themselves as her lawyers. A woman covered in blood is found next to a stabbed man. The next day, we see him in his real life: starting a law firm with his friend Foggy Nelson, who has bribed a cop to tell them about any interesting cases. Unlike the machinations of Fish Mooney or people “who’ve failed the city” in Arrow, the problem is an ongoing reality, and it relies on corruption to thrive. That’s the other part of Daredevil: Human trafficking is a huge, systematic problem that actually exists. He asks for forgiveness for what he’s about to do, which is fight off four guys who are trying to drag a bunch of women into a cell by the docks. I felt like I was back in high school speech and debate, watching a kid perform a monologue, and all I could think was, Why did you pick Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”?! You’re only 15! That said, this was the biggest misstep in the episode: Confessionals are great for getting a character to talk about his feelings and his regrets, but it feels forced in this case. His accident is just one of many, not unique in and of itself.Īnd unlike Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen, Matt Murdock has a religion and an interest in it. Heck, you could say there was something fishy about how they were transporting those barrels, and maybe we’ll find out that was all planned from the beginning like the aforementioned other shows, but I doubt it. Unlike one of the other, similar superhero shows about a man trying to clean up the dirty streets of his city - like Gotham and Arrow - Murdock isn’t targeted. ![]() ![]() His son is, of course, Matt Murdock, who shrieks that his eyes are burning, and after a creepy crackling and a shrinking viewpoint, he wails that he can’t see. Problems never appear in a vacuum, the first of which is our character’s origin story: His father running in a panic, pushing past a crowd of people to kneel over his son. You’ve got dames with problems and constant cloudiness and calling in old favors, sure, but most of all, you have corrupt systems undergirding a city full of secrets. The show is dark, certainly, but dark in a more film noir way, without needing to put on and point out its fedora. Dark both literally and metaphorically, oozing like tar throughout the whole show, guaranteed to be full of super-violent, faux-philosophical parables that mean a sickening amount of people dying to make the main character feel things. Yes, I hate to say it, but the trailers made Daredevil look like a DC movie. ![]() The trailers make the show seem gritty and dark in a way we’ve become so used to recently, but they lack the real fun and verve of a Marvel movie. Let me be honest: I was excited about Daredevil until I saw the trailers. ![]()
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