Remember after I saw Daredevil Season 1, I wanted them to pull back on the Catholic stuff and focus more on law. Be careful what you wish for because I was wrong. Season 2 of Daredevil feels more like a promotion for The Punisher, who had a better storyline than the titular character, and fleshed out the story that Stick alluded to in the debut season with uneven results. In the end, the story lacked focus by failing to provide a strong foil for Daredevil, and without Fisk, the whole enterprise flounders. I rated Daredevil Season 1 as five stars then downgraded the show to three such is the precipitous decline in quality.
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Daredevil was aggravating. The series needs to hire at least one American lawyer to consult on the law stuff, and if there is a person who does it, and that person is different from the first season legal consultant, then fire that person immediately. To be fair, I don’t practice criminal law, but I am a lawyer so I usually notice inconsistencies between reality and fiction, but second season of Daredevil was dreckitude.
Matt keeps talking about how he met a romantic interest in college then lists law school classes. That is Europe! Colleges may offer a single introductory law course, but not that many! Then during a direct examination of his client, which seemed like a rookie mistake to me, he asks to treat his client as a hostile witness then gives a closing argument! Are you fracking kidding me?!? Froggy offers a character witness during the trial, not sentencing. Karen constantly meets alone with the client and is seated with the attorneys at trial.
How can a DA shut your office down?!? Maybe I’m being naïve, but I think that the answer is that a DA can’t. Also they’re not a public interest organization so what is with all the pro bono work? I can sort of buy that because Matt would pull something like that, but no. How is Froggy making partner and bank at a firm? That is not how any of this works.
Dear Punisher, why were you not guilty in the hospital bed then proudly guilty in court. I blame the writers for that one. I don’t necessarily buy that he would do that just to meet Fisk then not try to kill Fisk, but I’ll let it go for now because it is plausible that he may prioritize his revenge. Still he took the time to kill the pawn broker.
I now hate Karen. She got a father killed, Ben killed, got two cops demoted and got ELMO guy’s foot chopped off. People should stay the hell away from her because others pay for her mistakes. Matt needs to give his guilt to her. Also what did she go to school for? During the first season, she is an amateur accountant. This season, she acts like a lawyer, and when that road ends, she becomes a journalist. She starts her first day inheriting Ben’s office with a window thus bypassing all the people sitting in cubicles then gets an upgrade from Ben’s desktop to a laptop without writing one damn story then is suffering writer’s block. THE FUCK!?! Also way to act like Matt is cheating on you by telling Foggy that he had a woman in his bed. Um, you forgot to mention an old, blind dude in the living room answering the door! Is that how guys cheat now? You went on one date! With your boss! You’re not exclusive! And why was Foggy initially totally cool with this development? He liked her! She is a total vigilante groupie, and I suspect that she is going to dump Daredevil for the Punisher, which is fair and psychotic. I kind of want to know her backstory, but unless it involves Bontemps, Louisiana, and finding the cure for the vampire virus, I suspect that I’ll be disappointed. Also why is The Punisher killing THAT guy the line. GTFOH.
The writing for Matt was really uneven this season. Sometimes in the same episode, he would argue against vigilantism to one character then praising it in a speech moments later. Aliens are coming through portals and wrecking your neighborhood, but it is ridiculous that there is some weird cult of ninjas that you have fought! Why do you question THIS story? You dress like a devil then fight crime with super hearing and meditation because you’re blind. We left reasonable awhile ago. Is it really harder to hear someone’s breath than a heartbeat? QTNA
There was one technical issue that completely took me out of the story. There is a scene in which Matt knocks out a security team in a bathroom then he takes their earpieces and flushes them in the toilet, but the first seat had the lid on so there was no flush, and you could hear it hit the lid. Where is your super hearing now?!? It didn’t bother me during the first season, but Hell’s Kitchen is equated with “the City,” i.e. NYC. Yeah, no. According to Wikipedia, it is 34th Street to 59th Street from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River. When there were car chases, and ninjas running through empty streets, I just shook my head. I don’t care what time it is, Manhattan is always busy. Daredevil also triggered me when he asks someone for her flashlight to throw down a hole to see how deep it goes when they are literally surrounded by debris. Use your own crap! Now I have to get a new flashlight! I love gauntlet hallway fights, but when I watch Daredevil, and someone is in a hallway, I’m expecting it.
I wanted to like Elektra, and I did like Elodie Yung, but she was hella anti-climatic. I needed her to be more badass if she was Black Sky, and she never really takes the front seat in the battle. I felt like River from Serenity could take her. I secretly wished that she was a vampire, which makes me lame, but requires less acrobatics than the Hand versus the Chaste. Her backstory with Stick was excellent, and I can’t wait to meet the next kid that Stick love teased then ditched next season. Just leave the kids alone! Also if you can hire cleaners to tidy up Matt’s apartment, let them pick him off the floor and put him in bed.
Jon Bernthal was Shane in The Walking Dead and plays rage filled nut job brilliantly so he is totally the Punisher for me, but don’t be such a drama queen and burn your house down! Think of the neighbors—it could spread then you would have to commit suicide. The house was innocent.
I was not into Daredevil Season 2 until the end of episode 8 when Vincent D’Onofrio schools the entire cast by resuming his role as Wilson Fisk. I loved how he still delicately handles his clothes, switches to brute rage and goes through his daily routine almost unbothered. He has a new Wesley (RIP), is back on top and probably connected some dots. He is the most interesting character in the whole series. Matt, you can’t do anything about Vanessa. Why are you playing? You’re just jealous that he has this love thing and life down on lock.