Daredevil

***Marvel's Daredevil*** is a television series created by Drew Goddard for the streaming service Netflix, based on the Marvel Comics character Daredevil. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), acknowledging the continuity of the franchise's films, and was the first Marvel Netflix series leading to the crossover miniseries *The Defenders*.

## Premise

The first season sees lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock use his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood as Daredevil while uncovering a conspiracy of the criminal underworld being led by Wilson Fisk. In the second season, Murdock continues to balance life as a lawyer and Daredevil, while crossing paths with the Punisher, a vigilante with far deadlier methods, as well as the return of an ex-girlfriend—Elektra Natchios. In the third season, after Fisk is released from prison, Murdock, who has been missing for months following the events of *The Defenders*, reemerges as a broken man and must decide between hiding from the world as a criminal lawyer, or embracing his life as a hero vigilante. In the fourth season, Murdock must face the return of Bullseye and his new ally, as he sets his plan of vengeance against Fisk in action. In the fifth and final season, Matt forges an uneasy alliance with the Punisher, to stop the new major of New York: Wilson Fisk.

## Cast and characters

* Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil
* Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin
* Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page
* Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson
* Toby Leonard Moore as James Wesley
* Vondie Curtis-Hall as Ben Urich
* Bob Gunton as Leland Owlsley
* Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna-Fisk
* Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple
* Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle / Punisher
* Élodie Young as Elektra Natchios
* Joanne Whalley as Maggie Grace
* Jay Ali as Ray Nadeem
* Wilson Bethel as Benjamin "Dex" Pointdexter / Bullseye
* as Alice Walker / Typhoid Mary
* as Ronald Soule / Muse

## Episodes

 2 | 13
 3 | 13
 4 | 13
 5 | 13

### Season 1 (2014)

*Main article: Daredevil (season 1)*

1. Into the Ring
2. Cut Man
3. Rabbit in a Snowstorm
4. In the Blood
5. World on Fire
6. Condemned
7. Stick
8. Shadows in the Glass
9. Speak of the Devil
10. Nelson v. Murdock
11. The Path of the Righteous
12. The Ones We Leave Behind
13. Daredevil

### Season 2 (2015)

*Main article: Daredevil (season 2)*

1. Bang
2. Dogs to a Gunfight
3. New York's Finest
4. Penny and Dime
5. Kinbaku
6. Regrets Only
7. Semper Fidelis
8. Guilty as Sin
9. Seven Minutes in Heaven
10. The Man in the Box
11. .380
12. The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
13. A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen

### Season 3 (2017)

*Main article: Daredevil (season 3)*

1. Resurrection
2. Please
3. No Good Deed
4. Blindsided
5. The Perfect Game
6. The Devil You Know
7. Aftermath
8. Upstairs/Downstairs
9. Revelations
10. Karen
11. Reunion
12. One Last Shot
13. A New Napkin

## Reception

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 99% approval rating for the first season, based on 72 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The second season has an 81% approval rating, based on 57 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The third season has a 97% approval rating, based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10.