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Not gonna lie, I wasn't a fan of the first episode and in my review of it, I left it so. However this episode is a major improvement over the first, dialogues are more nuanced, things the characters do are far deeper reaching making connections to the greater narrative, fight scenes and fight choreography are amazing, almost reminiscent of the original netflix show in their executions.

Twists and turns everywhere in the story, show returning to its grittier and darker roots when to comes to storytelling and action.

A bit of wishful thinking, if only the entire season released at once, sucks waiting for new episodes after a banger like this.

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.

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!

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.

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The second episode is taking pace and momentum for the better course with brilliant acting (as always) by Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio).

Already clear, as in the first episode, that the shows has not the original's quality & vibe in terms of visuals, score, pace, thrill and fight choreography until now at least, but the acting is of high quality to restore the balance a little.

So far, it seems that the series is weak in the script section, aside other blatant problems due to Disney's involvement that really has no business in series like Daredevil or The Punisher besides ruining them for the fans.

As other users pointed out, the whole Heather Glenn arc as therapist and wannabe whatever seems strange to straight up weird.

Also, I understand that maybe Charlie Cox would like to have his face covered with beard stubble, but after ten years and obviously not that 2015 young, I would like him to shave a little more often cause after all and in the first place, in the Comics, Daredevil has always been clean-shaven with blond hairs and I pass on that as he is the real Daredevil we know, so please a little more razor pass and above-all, way more of the awesome Muay Thai martial arts. Fingers crossed.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 8
• Production value/impact: 8
• Development: 7.5
• Realism: 7
• Entertainment: 8
• Acting: 9
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 8
• VFX: 8
• Music/score/sound: 7.5
• Depth: 7
• Logic: 7
• Flow: 7.5
• Action/crime/thriller/drama/sci-fi/gangster fantasy: 7.5
• Ending: 7.5.