Pitch-perfect production design sets the right tone for this master stroke in comic book adaptation. Matt Murdock comes to life thanks to the brilliant performance of Charlie Cox, who is juxtaposed with Vincent D'Onofrio's startlingly & frighteningly human Wilson Fisk. The suppting cast is all great, with Toby Leonard Moore (Wesley) & Peter McRobbie (Fr. Lantom) standing out the most. The exception, however, is Deborah Ann Woll, who gives flashes of the depth that she showed on True Blood, but isn't served well by the season's biggest flaw, which is the whiney, repetitive and ultimately pointless quest by her to get frumpy newspaper man Ben Urich to stay on the story she wants him to write. (It doesn't help that the resolution of that plot line is the 2nd greatest storytelling mistake of the entire Netflix Marvel run of shows.) Rosario Dawson's fan-favorite turn as the Night Nurse tends to balance it out, though. Mostly. Yes, the final suit design is a little meh, but the show knows it. ("I think that the horns are a little much," Foggy says.) And it's easy to look past that since it only appears in the final episode's final act, and by then the series has earned a little corny fun.
Review by Mike ShawVIP EP 2BlockedParent2023-01-20T05:42:19Z— updated 2023-03-13T03:32:52Z
Pitch-perfect production design sets the right tone for this master stroke in comic book adaptation. Matt Murdock comes to life thanks to the brilliant performance of Charlie Cox, who is juxtaposed with Vincent D'Onofrio's startlingly & frighteningly human Wilson Fisk. The suppting cast is all great, with Toby Leonard Moore (Wesley) & Peter McRobbie (Fr. Lantom) standing out the most. The exception, however, is Deborah Ann Woll, who gives flashes of the depth that she showed on True Blood, but isn't served well by the season's biggest flaw, which is the whiney, repetitive and ultimately pointless quest by her to get frumpy newspaper man Ben Urich to stay on the story she wants him to write. (It doesn't help that the resolution of that plot line is the 2nd greatest storytelling mistake of the entire Netflix Marvel run of shows.) Rosario Dawson's fan-favorite turn as the Night Nurse tends to balance it out, though. Mostly. Yes, the final suit design is a little meh, but the show knows it. ("I think that the horns are a little much," Foggy says.) And it's easy to look past that since it only appears in the final episode's final act, and by then the series has earned a little corny fun.