Marvel's Iron Fist

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Season 2
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 17, 2017
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 177 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 110 out of 177
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 177
  3. Negative: 38 out of 177
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  1. comicstudybuddy
    Sep 8, 2018
    4
    Terrible writing and a lack of budget are this shows real problem. Every fight scene is the same, the poor dialog and awful writing make the second season of Iron Fist is worse than the first.

    Do not waste your life and free time on a show this awful and poorly done.
  2. Skitzofreniq
    Sep 9, 2018
    4
    The problem starts with the miscasting of Danny Rand itself. Finn Jones still can't seem to be able to learn choreography which makes the fighting scenes look dreadful. His acting isn't something to write home about either. It's mind-boggling how his acting can make good actors look like bad actors. On top of that it still seems like he hasn't been to a gym once in his life which if youThe problem starts with the miscasting of Danny Rand itself. Finn Jones still can't seem to be able to learn choreography which makes the fighting scenes look dreadful. His acting isn't something to write home about either. It's mind-boggling how his acting can make good actors look like bad actors. On top of that it still seems like he hasn't been to a gym once in his life which if you look at Daredevil, Thor, Black Panther, Captain America and hell even Iron Man are being put on a strict training schedule and diet to look the part. Which is not the case for Iron Fist. I'm not saying he's supposed to be as buff as a Thor but at least look like a fighter.

    Another thing that bothers me is the casting of Davos. He's probably the most un-intimidating antagonist I've ever seen. A 5'7 cuddly Indian dude with a British accent. But at least he is more ripped than Iron Fist.

    Now about the show itself. There are so many unnecessary scenes that make the pace of the show slow down so much that my mind drifts off every couple of minutes. When watching a show like Mr. Robot even the scenes where there are no dialogue you'll get information about what's going on. Everything in a scene is there for a reason, like lighting, position of the character, background music and much more. But in this show it makes you aware of the fact that you just wasted 15 seconds on people walking through doors, going up stairs or whatever, staring at nothing. (Not sure if that made any sense lol) What I'm trying to say is that a 50 minute episode could've been cut down to 35 and you wouldn't have missed anything.

    All in all it feels like a chore to watch; which is a bummer because I've liked all Marvel shows until now. (Except Jessica Jones Season 02)    … Expand
  3. UBD
    Sep 18, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only good thing about this season was Davos. Danny and his girlfriend are essentially fighting on behalf of the Triad to control the Lower East Side for some reason.

    It begins with Danny kind of peace keeping and trying to arrange a parlay between different Triad sanctions, who literally murder innocent people in the street. Even after seeing this, Danny still works to keep the different Triad factions in power. Davos comes along, cripples the Triad and tries to remove their hold on the city. And somehow Davos is the bad guy?

    I could not root for Danny or Colleen. I did not understand their motivation and both of them seem like the least bright people in every room. The showrunners were smart to give the actor who plays Davos a major storyline this season, he is the only actor which commands your attention. I find myself zoning out when Danny and Colleen are on screen. In fact, I had to check and remind myself of their names before writing this review and I have seen both seasons!    … Expand
  4. JLuis_001
    Oct 12, 2018
    6
    A very small improvement over the first season and the fact that now there are only 10 episodes helps very little.

    The story is slow and drag things a lot. The first three episodes are completely disposable. It takes a good rhythm starting with the fourth but loses its course towards the ending before the hasty, anticlimatic and poor conclusion.
  5. tonyyan
    Sep 22, 2018
    6
    So much better than the first season! Iron Fist finally finds his position in the Netflix-Marvel series, though the characters are still boring and unchanging for the whole sick of time. (Mary is the only well-written role)
  6. OscarTheGrouch
    Oct 28, 2018
    4
    I wanted to write a big post how many things in this season make no sense. Danny needing to get trained by Colleen. Joy's motivation, or rather lack of. That horrible dinner scene. Those annoying kids who assault, rob and attempt murder but "we should try to help them" anyway, I guess. That there's no helping the miscasting of Danny Rand. The complete miss-use of Typhoid Mary's characterI wanted to write a big post how many things in this season make no sense. Danny needing to get trained by Colleen. Joy's motivation, or rather lack of. That horrible dinner scene. Those annoying kids who assault, rob and attempt murder but "we should try to help them" anyway, I guess. That there's no helping the miscasting of Danny Rand. The complete miss-use of Typhoid Mary's character into something totally different and boring. That nobody owned gun to just shoot Davos, no let's fight him mano a mano instead so he can use his power....

    But the show is cancelled. The only good thing to come from 2 seasons Iron Fist was Colleen Wing.    … Expand
  7. brockcheese
    Oct 26, 2018
    4
    This show barely got better. It's still goofy as hell and what the writers think is cool just isn't.
  8. FabrizioMaffei
    Sep 11, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If the first season of ironFist was embarrassing this is a little less, but we are always there.
    Netflix has a big problem: it must continue producing series and films to keep its library up to date. But how do you produce a burst while maintaining a good quality?
    And in fact Iron Fist 2 is just the last season of a list of mediocre series produced by Netflix in recent times.
    If you are not teenagers, and your film culture is discreet, this season will be really hard to finish.
    It must be said that the action scenes and fights have improved (it wouldn’t take a lot) compared to the previous one.
    But removed the fight scenes and some dialogues, in the end, it seems to be in front of a soap opera in which: the dialogues are laughable or worse, the characters change deployment or ideas on each episode to eventually return to the previous ideas, and consequently the development of the plot is always void.
    10 episodes of which 6 could be cut quietly without changing anything from the second to the ninth.
    The characters speak, speak, speak constantly, but these dialogues are useless.
    For example (SPOILER): your boyfriend disappears, maybe he was killed. What would you do? One expects scenes in which the characters are desperate to find it looking in every corner. No, for the writers of IronFist it doesn’t work like that. Colleen and Detective Knight search for Daniel walking around the city drinking coffee and chatting. (FINE SPOILER)
    Seriously? Why should producers accept a script like that?
    But the quality of which I spoke and to which we had been accustomed?
    There is no more.
    Of course, those who work Netflix certainly know more than me with statistics in hand, and will know that these 10 series episodes are a winning format. And maybe they will never read all this.
    But why not cut off the superfluous, making fewer episodes.
    Making 6 episodes, at least one person would be able to finish the series even if it is not to his liking.
    To conclude, as these series of defenders are connected to each other, and if you are passionate like me of DareDevil, Iron Fist 2 can be watched quietly seeing the first two episodes, the last 30 seconds of the eighth episode and the last two without lose something important.
    P.S. A personal praise to Jessica Henwick that despite the banality of the dialogues turns out to be a great actress in perspective.
    P.P.S. The last 5 minutes with the final cliffangher make you want to watch the third series, hoping Netflix can improve the product.    … Expand
  9. DoodleDan
    Sep 22, 2018
    5
    To be honest, this is hard to rate, I understand that the budget is low and everything, on one side we got some episodes that were executed very well and some amaizing fight scenes were added.
    Now, there were episodes where the acting was really bad and it looked like no effort was put into it at all, most of the "iron fist" fight scenes were just horrible, overall, I easily predicted    To be honest, this is hard to rate, I understand that the budget is low and everything, on one side we got some episodes that were executed very well and some amaizing fight scenes were added.
    Now, there were episodes where the acting was really bad and it looked like no effort was put into it at all, most of the "iron fist" fight scenes were just horrible, overall, I easily predicted what would happen by the end, it wasn't as exciting as the first season and I didn't get any goose bumps from a "iron fist" explosion scene because it didn't look that... powefull.
    Hopefully the next season will be executed at its best.
    Sorry for my English.    … Expand
  10. PConsoul
    Feb 23, 2019
    5
    Season 2 did a really good job on convincing that the protagonist who was trained for his whole life to become The Immortal Iron Fist doesn't deserve its power
  11. iCampoRamil
    May 15, 2021
    6
    De primeras, los planos y la fotografía muy bien cuidados.
    Me gusta mucho Iron Fist como personaje, sus valores, pero creo que en la serie no se plasma bien su relato, no lo saben contar bien, una narrativa muy atascada.
    Las interpretaciones son muy buenas, tienen algunos detalls, como Bloody Mery, ese personaje es una locura, y la actriz más. El arco de Ward es muy bueno, el que más    De primeras, los planos y la fotografía muy bien cuidados.
    Me gusta mucho Iron Fist como personaje, sus valores, pero creo que en la serie no se plasma bien su relato, no lo saben contar bien, una narrativa muy atascada.
    Las interpretaciones son muy buenas, tienen algunos detalls, como Bloody Mery, ese personaje es una locura, y la actriz más.
    El arco de Ward es muy bueno, el que más interesa y de las mejores construcciones junto a Colleen.
    Hay tramas que dejan mucho de lado y vuelven al espectador al final, que ya se habían olvidado, está bien que las resuelvan, pero no las dejes tanto de lado.
    Me falta ese capítulo especial que resalte o deje ese momentazo que te queda grabado, pero no existe.
    Cosas buenas: coreografías de combate, el héroe, el guion, la duración, solo 10 episodios y no 13, y el reparto.
    Cosas malas: el relato del personaje y todo lo relacionado con la fantasía.    … Expand

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Metascore
39

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 2 out of 6
  1. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Alex Abad-Santos
    Sep 6, 2018
    40
    Its fight scenes vastly improve upon the garbage disposal-like quality of jump cuts masquerading as brawls in season one, and the writing has moved away from the mind-numbing exposition that characterized much of season one, trusting the audience to understand what’s happening without dialogue constantly reminding them. However, Iron Fist’s second season isn’t exactly good when in the context of television outside of Iron Fist. Parts of it are still staggeringly clunky.
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  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Sep 6, 2018
    30
    More so than in any other Netflix superhero show, Iron Fist never figures out how to build an aesthetic that reconciles its naturalistic performances and its dialogue, which tends to fall into one of two categories: no-frills information delivery or failed cleverness.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Danette Chavez
    Sep 5, 2018
    50
    Thanks to reinvigorated fighting and spotlights yielded to the real stars, Iron Fist improves on its first season. ... The show also uncovers a bigger problem. Its lead character doesn’t deserve top billing, and maybe never.
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