Daredevil
2018
Netflix - Season 3, Final Season
13 Episodes
6.5/10
I started this past weekend watching the final season on the road and finished last night on the road. I’m not going go into details, just the highlights.
The season picks up immediately after the events of “The Defenders”. Being Disney has only announced the Punisher returning, I skipped the Defenders as well as the other Netflix series. I will rewatch them once Disney officially announces those actors returning to the franchise, or if they make a surprise cameos in the new series.
Season 3 starts with Matt recuperating from his injuries from “The Defenders” and some of his abilities are numb. He begins questioning his purpose and future on being Daredevil.
Fisk is still in prison and begins his long game scheme on getting out and clearing his name.
Episode 2 debuts Poindexter “Bullseye” and it starts to go into Karen and Foggy’s past.
Episode 4 has another classic fight scene with Matt fighting his way out of prison. it’s a 13 minute scene shot in one take with him taking on 6 prisoners/co’s. What makes this scene good is we actually see Charlie Cox doing the fight. Prior fight scenes his character was masked up, so good chance they used a stunt double in those scenes.
Episode 5 has Fisk discovering Bullseyes past that he later uses to gain his trust.
Episode 6 has Bulleye debut in Matt’s suit. A good fight scene happens between Matt/Bullseye that fully displays Bullseye’s skills in using simple objects as lethal weapons.
Episode 9 reveals who Matt’s mother is.
The final episode pretty much wraps up the season and all the major plots that have carried on since season 1 and the Defenders. The season starts off slow, but picks up midway once Bullseye enters the main story. This wasn’t the best season out of the 3, but it is entertaining and interesting, especially the parts going in-depth on a number of characters.
There is a number of things that are gonna have to be answered in the new series involving the characters, with how season 3 left off. Fisk went into custody in the final episode. In “Echo” he was out and about. Also, I don’t recall any mention of Vanessa in Echo, she is returning in the new series.
Bullseye left off paralyzed. I had looked up his character and learned he had been upgraded with Adamantium in the comics. When this final season played, “The Black Panther” debuted. So I suspect Netflix was planning on getting him upgraded with Vibranium being Adamantium had not been introduced in the MCU back in 2018. I haven’t seen the new Captain America film, so I am unaware on what happens with Adamantium being introduced in that film.
She-Hulk had Matt debut the classic yellow suit. Season 3 might give some insight on it, we won’t know until the new series debuts. And we won’t know if the events of She-Hulk will concur in the new series or if she will cameo in the new series. Also, the Tailor started a suit for Elektra in season 2. It should debut when they bring her back at some point.
And the series is gonna have to explain if any of the characters were affected by the Thanos “Snap”. All the Disney+ Marvel series has acknowledged the Snap. So hopefully Disney continues that sub-plot in the new series.
I have had notifications come up about the new series. I haven’t read anything, but it seems the new series is getting good reviews. Its supposed to have 9 episodes, no way in hell I’m gonna watch it weekly, cuz I know for sure there will be a good number of episodes of just talking, with the series closing up the time gap with characters from the Netflix series's. And a number of episodes will only be about 25 minutes. I will wait until all the episodes debut and binge them back to back at home.
The next series in the timeline is The Punisher season 2. I’m gonna get to it next week, I got some other shit too catch up on.
Looking forward to watching it.