Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Premiere Discussion

Better than season 1 but I still didn’t like it. Maybe Im just too much of a fan of the original show. The new characters are handled better this season but they still don’t have the vibrancy and thoughtfulness the side characters in the old show had. I felt season one was trying to invert was season 3 of the old show and getting rid of his dual life and this season continues with that.

I didn't even make it 1/2 way through ep1 but i guess i will slip to the end

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Does Bullseye have psychic powers or does he have "Youre Welcome"-Knives ready for any occasion?

Overall I enjoyed the first ep, I will say - I have NO IDEA how they originally thought this show was going to work WITHOUT KAREN PAGE lol. The moment she’s on screen she shines, she shines with Matt, it’s wild the original thought was they’d just take DD out of the Netflix world

I liked it a lot. The therapist was easily the weakest character in season 1, so I like how they moved her into Fisk's team and seem to be cooking an interesting arc for her.

Fun part for me is that my wife is Greek, so she can translate the parts where they don't have subtitles (and verify that the subtitles are generally correct)

Favorite part of the episode was the last scene. Great fight sequence and that knife message was the cherry on top.

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Shame there isn't a showrunner with a grasp on the characters or tone.

I didn't like season 1 and this generally felt like a step up. They are still stuck doing some cleanup from last season's storylines though. Only thing I really didn't like was Matt getting taken down and decowled by the Task Force guys. I get the whole thing with hearing the heartbeat, but none of these clowns should be tagging Matthew 5+ years into his superhero career (constant breaks aside.)

Overall enjoyed it a lot. Really flew by. And that new suit is chef’s kiss.

The shift from a street-level brawler to a full-on political thriller is exactly what this show needed. The pacing in this premiere was phenomenal, especially that cargo ship infiltration, is just classic, incredibly tense television action. But honestly, the biggest surprise for me was Matthew Lillard showing up as a CIA operative. It completely changes the dynamic from a personal vendetta into a messy federal issue. ​I actually just dropped a full review over on my channel, Spoilerish & Unfiltered, diving into the major power shifts in this episode and why Fisk's grip on the city is so terrifying right now. Would love to hear what you guys think...is the CIA going after Fisk or Matt first? ​Check out the breakdown here if you're interested: https://youtu.be/i6Dd78xxlxc

This is the daredevil we know from the Netflix series. We are almost there. I got a chance to see the whole series. Here’s my spoiler free review of it all, giving hope for this character now and in the future! https://popcorn4breakfast.com/2026/03/25/daredevil-born-again-season-2-review-spoiler-free-finally-fixes-what-season-1-broke-from-the-netflix-series/

I'm a little bit confused on this detail even tho I watched ep 1 3 times lol but who told the captain of the ship to sink the boat if they got boarded??

I leked the start of season. Cant wait for next week.

Action was fantastic, I’m here for the story, but man do I miss the moody cinematography of the Netflix era.

Is it just me, or has Daredevil officially entered "Second screen" writing territory? There was literally no sub-textual dialogue in that entire episode, and everything that could've easily been implied was foregone for blunt-force exposition. The CIA guy talking about killing people after using them was especially cringe, like isn't your entire job about speaking in code? Maybe it's just me, but it feels like the writing has taken a massive nosedive, and I'm having little hope for the rest of the season.

Definitely miss the camera grain gritty look of the Netflix, but this is not Netflix so I understand that. That said I wasn’t a fan of the first half, so many fucks being thrown around for no purpose at all. BB is kinda cringe ngl, she was an interesting addition in the first season but now is pretty f****** boring. Something was off with the audio or maybe it was just my tv lol but it felt like it was cutting in and out and at time voices didn’t sync. It felt like we were just showing up to a lot of places without any sort of understanding of why we were there until dialog happened. There used to be setup in previous scenes to understand why Matt shows up to the next, a lot more investigation. I don’t like how they mentioned Jess over the phone it feels like it takes away from her reveal overall but I assume that is for people who don’t know who she is but still, a very lazy mention. The cuts also f****** sucks. That was just my issues with the first half I loved the second half. I love the parallel and callback to foggy, but it feels like a mistake that Matt wouldn’t make idk maybe I’m just Cherry picking . The knife is definitely a bullseye move, if anyone is picked up a comic book you’d know how sadistic and insane bullseye is and just all the random shit he pulls for the sake of doing random shit.

Expected more of the same mid quality as the first season, looks like its not just me. Again i ask… *this* is who some people are most excited for??

I’m a simple man. I see cops get domed by a former cop and I upvote. Keep it coming

All my issues with this show are with the editing. I liked the episode but it still have that feeling of the show being a bunch of clips stitched together. The flow of the episode was weird, maybe it's just the insane amount of cuts used. It feels way to over produced at times. Either way, I'll keep showing up for more DD.

Not even being super picky, I enjoyed the episode BUT where the f*** is Jessica Jones you don’t end a season on a reveal and completely ignore the plot you set up lol bro didn’t even make a comment about it edit: was misremembering season 1 ending, oops lol

I hope they have an idea of where they are going and were just having a tough time setting up the narrative to get to that point, but that was an absolute mess. I'm genuinely curious and would love to hear from the downvote brigade in this thread, what did you like about this? I see a lot of folks in here who felt the same way I did kinda tip-toeing around it, but I'll straight up say it...that was bad. And since I asked what you liked about it, I'll tell you what I think was bad about it. The pacing and editing were awful. Like realllly awful. Like someone should lose their job awful. It's obvious they are still trying to Frankenstein this show together from whatever it was originally going to be and instead of reshoots they are trying to craft a new narrative in the editing room. I'm just going on the assumption now that Matt Murdock can straight up see. His blindness used to be a part of his character and the narrative of the show. Did the Mouse wave his Disney Channel logo magic wand and give him his sight back when the show jumped to D+ and just forget to tell us? They haven't established anything to justify the plot that is being driven by Fisk's port other than he's running rifles and pistols through it which is ironic because the one thing you wouldn't need some shifty port to get in America is a bunch of guns. Who is using it? What is being brought through the port besides anything you could get at your corner gun store in Conroe, Texas? Did they build this thing in 3 days? How is ICE (the C stands for Customs and Ciustoms officers have an actual job unlike the I part in ICE) handling this? The federal government controls ports, not the mayor of New York or the CIA, although one thing I am super excited about is Matthew Lillard. Love that guy and f*** Quentin Tarantino. Why are we only seeing the one side of New York that supports Kingpen? I understand that he is an allegory for the current Pigpen in the White House but in case you haven't noticed, and if you are on Reddit you have definitely noticed, there are a lot of people standing against the fascist-in-chief (sidenote, the next No Kings Rally is on Saturday, be bold, do something more than b**** from your keyboard in this echo chamber and get outside and let your real voice be heard!!!!). I posted a reply to someone somewhere in this thread, but I want to make the point here and I'm making it as someone who enjoys reading comic books. The comic books are not some kind of mystical fountain pen that makes it OK to write bad story on a TV show or in a movie. Just because it's in the books doesn't make it make sense. OK, I've got more, but I also got to walk the dogs. All three of them are literally sitting next to me and staring. Downvote away, I don't care. But I am interested in some dialogue from anyone who thought this was good. Edit: So no one can tell me what this show is doing well?

A building collapsed on him, survived a fight with Bullseye throw a shit load of knives at him and survived a sinking of a freighter AND Kingpins and the baddies aren't shitting their pants when Daredevil is around?

It's ass

The BB storyline bores me

The knife at the end was kinda dumb. Like he took it to the engraver 2 months ago with that whole scene planned out in his head.

Well the purists aren't sold because it's not Netflix, and Netflix and OMG Netflix, and why Not NETFLIX?!! .. but I thought it wasn't bad. It's a first episode so who knows how the rest of the season goes, but anything is an improvement over the Frankenstein that was last season. Also, to the purists, I'm sorry, but there were some clunky ass filler episodes in all the Netflix seasons, and some incredibly cringey characters. So meh!

They completely cut out Punisher from the Season 1 recap. You know, the one vigilante that hates corruption? It's his sole driving motivator. Why bring him back in Season 1 if you're going to abandon him in Season 2? What a farce. I can't wait for the canon explanation if there is one.

I am continuing to watch because I can tell they're about to take a page out of the comics and bring Foggy back.

Really pathetic how the comments that are being objective and critical of it episode are being mass downvoted. Typical Marvel fans.

I got downvoted when giving my thoughts on the marvel subs, but this was a real let down. Pacing is bad, editing is nauseating, lighting is straight up horrible at points etc. The show just feels so overproduced. It also feels like we skipped over some vital character building stuff like Karen and Matt getting back together for no reason. Reviewers say it really picks up in later episodes, but they must mean in relation to the plot because I don’t think the show will randomly be edited better. The ending was fun and Matthew Lillard had me really intrigued. The og show stands with some of the best television out there, and this feels like it’s just “good enough” for Disney plus standards. This is the 5th season of a show filled with characters I love, yet Wonder Man had me hooked with its first episode compared to this.

i really enjoyed it, art is subjective, but i am baffled at some of the negative reactions.

I swear to god either Daredevil or Punisher have come back a thousand times lately.

Not really a fan of Matt and Karen being back together again. Not like this anyways. They could barely hold a conversation in season 1. Would've liked to see some kind of resolution to their relationship Fight scenes are cut like shit too. Ending was cool though

I think people are forgetting how good the Netflix daredevil was because born again is not hitting but I did like that end scene. I’m always down for more bullseye loll

The opening scene was downright disrespectful to the audience. One second, Matt is going down with the ship; the next, he magically teleports onto the shore. That’s the sort of lazy writing you’d find in the later seasons of Game of Thrones.

brother wtf are these cuts?

Solid premiere, but god, everything about this show feels so _overcooked_. The overbearing, operatic music in every scene, the insane amount of lens flare (rivaling even JJ Abrams), the unnecessary use of Dutch angles and odd camera placement in mundane scenes that don't require them, the blurry anamorphic lenses, the obvious CGI in a lot of the setpieces, the overly theatrical dialogue and acting especially among the supporting cast. It thinks it's being "cinematic" but it feels garish and off-putting. There was a gritty simplicity to the look and feel of the original show that this revival sorely needs if it truly wants to be a successor to the original. Simply turning everything up to 11 doesn't automatically make things better. - Plot was decent otherwise, though the stakes feel a bit muddy given how hamfisted and broadly rendered Fisk's whole reign has been. Obvious ICE parallels with this thuggish task force that I'm sure will get its due share of beatings over the course of the season. - Interesting seeing the Karen/Matt romance renewed - I found it a bit unconvincing even in the original show but Deborah Ann Woll is such a wonderful presence on the show that it's just nice to have more of her onscreen. - Wild seeing Annie Parisse from Person of Interest as that Greek restaurant owner. Had no idea she even spoke Greek. Also TIL she's the sister of Louis Cancelmi (Sally Bugs from The Irishman), aka the man with the most unhinged last name of the current century. - Justice for Lalo Salamanca! - The ending was fun, but it felt like one fakeout too many. Fake heart attack followed by fake unmasking followed by Dex killing the cops. If it was just one of those moments it would've been more of a holy-shit, but it felt more like they couldn't decide which cliffhanger to use and instead crammed all three into the same scene.

Who through the "you're welcome" knife at the end? I'm more of a casual MCU fan so I often forget which characters are around. Frank is still locked up, right?

"You're welcome" \- Bulls Eye

I’m sorry but the directing, cinematography, and music are distractingly bad in this show. Scenes with people talking have blurred shaky cam and thrilling/intense music when they’d be better off with no music. And the action half the time remind me of CW shows but with forced gore. They went for the in your face arm compound fracture like 4 times this episode. And lots of use of the volume in some scenes when they’d original show shot on location most of the time. And I just don’t care for any of the side characters still. I’ll continue to watch it in hopes it gets better because I care for this NYC story they’ve been building towards in Spider-Man but I the way it’s shot and written is very lacking.

It’s bad. The pace, editing, acting everything is all over the place. It seems they lost structure. Matt and Karen scenes were a cringefest.

I'm sorry, but the acting and choreography of the scenes are all so cheesy, I cannot take the show serious.

I love it that Daredevil is like what, 4 Seconds, in the Flashback? So you know direct from the beginning what you get :D

Tonally all over the place. The BB news report as a 21st century version of newspaper journalism just doesn't work. Nothing like that actually exists! In contrast, there are a lot of great digital news sites set in New York.  This show still feels like a Frankenstein patchwork. 

I really wished the events of Thunderbolts would have been mentioned. Like how half the NY went missing for an hour which freaked out the Mayor.