Optics

Whose idea's was to put over-the-top Bollywood/Jason Bourne-esque grotesque cuts in the middle of good action ??? All the scenes, even if minimalistic, were honestly not bad. But somehow someone thought it would be a good idea to mask those scenes with a thousand cuts, making them disgusting to look at, it's just horrible, there was absolutely no need to do that after episode one. That factor unfortunately deems the episode BAD in the action department, this was truly truly atrocious, whoever directed this should not come back to any future marvel projets, especially ones with hand-on-hand brawls that require good actors, stunt doubles, coreography and directing to work, this was an immense disappointment after the first 3 seasons and episode one. Can't give it more than a seven with that insane butchering of one of the serie's main premises ( fighting )

After episode two there is no doubt that this show continues on the level of the original. Fisks first days as mayor he learns that it is not easy to push his agenda. Especially his relationship to Vanessa is a problem. His absence for years broke it. Now he wants to fix it and therefore goes to the therapist Murdock is dating. This will be interesting.

He also meets the daughter of the journalist he killed in the original show. I am curious what they will make out of that. And then Fisk does Fisk things. The commisioner threatens him to do everything to get him out of service and later resigns his office, but Fisk was prepared. He uses his not legal son to blackmail him. Incredible, after a few days he already has them in his pocket!

In the meantime Murdock takes a new client who turns out to be the White Tiger vigilante. There is clearly a conspiracy behind it, the cops are tring to kill a witness so Murdock has to let the devil out and kills them!

Daredevil will be born again. It is inevitable.

So it seems like the biggest problem I had with the first episode that I talked about a lot in my last review was improved here, and the second episode is thankfully way better paced and they don't throw 10 different plot points and important events at your face at the same time.

Although the problem of (for me personally) constant music over each and every scene still remains, (and it looks like they went to Christopher Nolan's school of soundmixing), at least the choice of music was better this time round. But I still feel that many scenes here would've worked much better if they didn't have music or the music wasn't so loud. The Wire made an entire 5 seasons of a show work without using any music during its scenes. So I'm pretty sure you don't actually need a full orchestra accompanying every scene of your episode.

Anyway, this episode sets up the season much better than the first one, with the new court case Matt takes upon himself. And I'm interested to see where they're gonna take this storyline from here, which they hinted at with the wrist tattoo.

All in all, this episode was better paced compared to the first episode and the scenes lingered more, and there was some breathing room between scenes, and most importantly, the action wasn't as CGI-heavy or fake-looking as that awful-looking smoke scene in the first episode. Although the CGI blood is still very noticeable and annoying, but the action here felt more like Daredevil compared to the first episode.

The second episode feels more like part of what they couldn't re-record. If you were aware of the situation before, it was originally going to focus more on lawyers than vigilantes, and this episode kind of reflects that.

I'm not a fan of Daredevil being so obvious about his identity, unlike how he was in the Netflix show. He feels more like the She-Hulk version of Daredevil than the one from Netflix. I get that it's something new, but I'm still waiting for the show to truly kick off.

As for Matt's new girlfriend, without taking anything away from the actress, she has no personality. She seems to come out of nowhere, and she's kind of like the new Karen-in big quotation marks.

The fact that the characters still feel somewhat scattered makes sense, given that the series is just getting started. And sure, the excuse that it's a new show works-especially if you're expecting it to be a fourth season of the Netflix show, which it's clearly not.

The final scene was solid-good action-but once again, this Daredevil feels a lot like Tom Holland's Peter Parker. He doesn't do a great job keeping his identity secret, and that's strange to see, especially considering how in the previous series, he was so committed to keeping it hidden. He would even take beatings from Fisk and other secondary characters just to maintain the illusion that he was blind in public.

Yes, I know there's a scene in prison in Netflix Daredevil Season 3 where he fights a bunch of inmates, but they didn't know he was blind. In this case, it just didn't work as well.

Overall, the series still feels very fast-paced.

MASS-

Very good,New York elects a man that was arrested in a prison for some time and rebuild his narrative as a Mayor with many fanatic followers,much like José Inácio Lula da Silva actual Brazil president and Jair Messias Bolsonaro this is what happens when politic became a cult with many poor and little QI people,better action scene than the first episode and you can even Wonder if Fisk really has remorse for his past actions but you know that very like Lula he will just shows his true colors while tries to control information and narrative,also even a dictatorship,that is a villain that still strong as ever after his cartoonish version,the crime and corruption rises in ways never seem before while poor education people still blind and acts like a zombie horde!