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Whoever says this is a return to form for the Netflix Marvel series is either paid off or just delusional at this stage. I was a massive fan of Season 1 and highly recommended to all my friends and I thought season 2 was fine despite its clear obvious flaws. From S2 onwards, the Netflix series has gone suddenly downhill with lack of quality, imagination and execution. All of these shows became generic and bland that will not stand the test of time (apart from maybe season 1 of DD) compared with actual great shows like Breaking Bad, Deadwood etc.
Where to begin how bad it has become? First, 2/3 of this season is just straight up filler and waste of time plot. Apart from strong acting from D'nofrio and Charlie Cox, the show has a mediocre plotline with inconsistent focus and just boring things all long. I mean literally, the whole season is on Fisk being holed up and with a convoluted (and extremely boring) ways of different characters doing different mundane things. I mean literally 4/5 of Murdock time is talking with a nun in this series, whilst the two previous side characters of Foggy and Karen do their own stupid thing whilst never really having meaningful interactions with Murdoch. Bullseyes origin and arc is by far the best developed and kinda worht watching but sadly this is drowned out by the whole mediocre nature of the show.
We spend a lot of time on this stupid FBI agent, where the FBI gets corrupt but they pretend illogically that they can trust Fisk etc -when clearly from season 1 we knew how powerful he was. None of it makes any sense, none of the ideas are developed much - like Fisk was going to use Bullseye as Daredevil as a scapegoat to bad name Daredevil, but that doesnt really happen much throughout the series except for him going around killing journalists earlier on. At one point, the FBI detective who is handler for Fisk, gets shot, but he just walks around fine after that and woah stupid plot twist, turns out the FBI and stuff is corrupt - who would ever imagine that wow. Yes, characters are this naive in this season despite what clearly happend previously. Talking about plot twist, there is a stupid one around episode 9 where it turns out the nun caring for Matt is actually his mother. This comes out of literally nowhere for the sake of making drama. It stupid, and is contrived and makes everyone idiots. Also everyone seems to know about Matt identity and he goes around kicking ass in the daylight despite presumably dead.
The writing is terrible, the action scenes are scarce and its so illogical at this point, I literally skip scenes to get to the good stuff. Like there is this scene where Karen goes to confront Fisk in the hotel and she thinks its a good idea to trigger Fisk to kill her so somehow it will be captured by cameras - despite a) that is a stupid idea, b) Fisk can easily walk off given the FBI corrupt (why is she so stupid to trust that c) she says she is the most dangerous character because she killed that side character in s1 and then the very next scene for her, she says she is running away hahahahah. Its so terrible. Deborah Ann Woll is also a terrible actress in s3, with the same fkin look on her face in every scene and annoying tone. No wonder she never gets any other acting jobs (same goes for Foggy who is terrible and a waste of time now).
There is also a lack of continuity from the rest of other seasons, like the Hand, Marvel stuff. At this stage, it should just be called Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk the Tv series. The show has nothing to do with Marvel and its so terrible and bland, it makes the fking DC and CW stuff actually seem interesting. The budget also seems so cheap this season, and it makes no king sense why Matt doesnt wear the costume for most of the season. WE are only given the dumb reason he buried the idea of it. But what was that idea? What idea from the Defenders was bad about the costume? He literally forgets about Elektra once the season starts kicking on, and honestly the armour and stealth would make so much difference.
Honestly, this is the longest I've written because this is how terrible the tv series and universe has become. Its such a shame because s1 de Knight version of DD was actually interesting and going somewhere. I don't know why people are so obsessed with defending this garbage when we clearly know their writers, directors and producers are all D rated workers who dont have a single ounce of creativity and actual competence on what they are doing. It is incredibly sad this standard of literal **** writing and directing is considered a "back to form". No its not, anyone blind can see how bad it has become. This will be the last Marvel Netflix Tv show i ever watch ( I didnt even bother with seasons 2 of Iron Fist, Luke Cage or Jessica Jones) given how terrible defenders was.
The marvel netflix shows are over. Its not dumping content, no quality whatsoever.… Expand