Daredevil
2015 · 3 Seasons · Netflix · Action, Crime, Drama
Daredevil set the standard for what a grounded superhero show could be, delivering three seasons of brutal action, moral complexity, and one of the great hero-villain dynamics in television history. Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock is a superhero defined by his contradictions, a blind lawyer who fights crime with his fists, a Catholic struggling with the violence he can't stop inflicting. Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk is a villain so fully realized that he occasionally steals the show from its own protagonist. The thirteen-episode seasons can drag in their middle sections, and the second season's split focus creates structural problems. But the hallway fights are legendary, the performances are exceptional, and at its best, Daredevil proved that superhero television could be something great.