Tag: Nikki M. James
REVIEW: Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1, Episode 8, “Isle of Joy”
The rumors were that with “Isle of Joy,” or maybe last week’s “Art for Art’s Sake,” Daredevil: Born Again was finally going to get good, having expunged all remnants of the scrapped version from the original showrunners before Dario Scardapane took over. Yeah… no. If anything, I hate ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1, Episode 7, “Art for Art’s Sake”
“Art for Art’s Sake” is another tedious, unsatisfying, and just plain dumb episode of Daredevil: Born Again, one that undermines the characters we love (what few of them are left), pretends the ones it introduced and never bothered to develop are important, wraps up what was presented as a ma...
Read MoreREVIEW: Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1, Episode 6, “Excessive Force”
If “Excessive Force” proves anything, it’s that Daredevil: Born Again is braindead, yet another Marvel endeavor that doesn’t care about crafting a compelling story, giving the characters satisfying journeys, or even having much that happens on screen make sense. Watching it is a hollow expe...
Read MoreREVIEW: Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1, Episode 3, “The Hollow of His Hand”
“The Hollow of His Hand” encapsulates some of the biggest problems with Daredevil: Born Again, telling a story that should’ve been allowed to breathe in as short a time as possible and feeling weightless as a result. This is not the ever-unfolding story of Matt Murdock so much as seeing what ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1, Episode 2, “Optics”
I was, to put it mildly, less than thrilled with the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again. Its follow-up, “Optics,” is better, perhaps benefiting from getting past the season’s setup and jumping into a plot that keeps Matt busy. It also has some nice small touches, particularly one I didn’...
Read MoreREVIEW: Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1, Episode 1, “Heaven’s Half Hour”
Daredevil: Born Again may be the last straw for a lot of people when it comes to Marvel. The revival of the amazing Netflix series that introduced Matt Murdock and his street-level crime cesspool to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (don’t listen to all that “Now, Daredevil is part of the MCU” n...
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