Daredevil Season 2 Review

Daredevil Season 2 Review

So after sitting down for 13 hours straight, I spent my Easter watching season 2 of one of my favourite Netflix shows, Daredevil!

Unfamiliar with the Devil of Hells Kitchen?

For newcomers to the show and to the super hero Daredevil, Daredevil is a masked vigilante who roams the streets of Hells Kitchen, New York fighting crime and making his city a better place. By day, Matt Murdock is a lawyer, by night he is Daredevil.There's just one thing, Daredevil is blind. He lost his eyesight as a child and hasn't been able to see ever since.

He was trained by a man who was also blind named stick to use his now developed hearing sense as a power, to hear much more than any human or animal can and to use it to fight for justice.

Season 1 Summary 

Okay, so to sum up season 1, it was really really good. Its downside was how long you had to wait to see the antagonist. In fact, you had to wait 6 episodes to even catch a glimpse of him. But when he showed up. He really did give hell to Hells Kitchen and made life impossible for the Devil.
He controls everything going from the press to the police. From banks to entire drug lords. The Kingpin owned everything and was more than just a challenge for Matt Murdock and his best friend and lawyer partner Foggy Nelson, with assistant Karen Page. Another downside to season 1, was that we had to wait until the very last episode for him to finally put on the red Daredevil suit, which sometimes did make me feel like I wasn't watching Daredevil and more guy in black costume doesn't like bad-ass bad guys.

There is a nice balance between action and story telling going from a hard day in the office to freaking ninjas! And then back to the pub to wash it all down, so long as no one is bleeding to death, that is.

Season 1 is a solid 8/10 for me, but you didn't come here for season 1, you came here for season 2.

Season 2 Summary

If you watched this season as well, then I hope I wasn't the only one that screamed at the end of episode 8? Because I did, and I'm pretty sure it had already gone past midnight at this point.

Season 2 was everything great from season 1 and more. We had shocking returns that made us go "OMG!" (And scream like how I did) as well as a few other surprise appearances. We had fights and action and story telling done to almost perfection. The key word there, was almost. Towards the end of the season it really did get to the point where if you blinked, you'd miss something. And I feel like I must of blinked more than once...

But a part from that little blip, I still loved every second of this season and I can't wait for next year so we can see the results of that pretty major cliff hanger. The Punisher, played by Jon Bernthal, was everything I love about The Punisher and more. We saw his development from a psycho path in episode one to almost a hero, a hero that uses guns, in episode 13. We saw Elektra, played by Elodie Yung, go from a psychopath to a hero that uses Okinawan sai (which are kind of like little daggers with three blades, I guess). And we see Daredevil, played by Charlie Cox, continue being a hero to becoming a much more bad-ass hero that uses nunchucks... Wait a minute, I'm starting to see a little pattern here. Yes, that's right, in some way or another, all our main characters develop into some form of hero.

I love season 2 so much more than season 1, so this season gets a 9/10 from me.
The improvement for me would simply be take your time with what's going on towards the end of the season, it felt almost rushed at some places.

Season 2 SPOILERS (Only read on if you want to know)!

• Kingpin at the end of episode 8 was the best thing in the show for me, his scenes with The Punisher stole the show for me and there on screen time was deeply loved by me.
• Elektra's death was a tiny bit predictable simply because The Defenders has been announced and if two good guys get soppy, you know one of them is going to die.
• But then the big cliff hanger, why was her body dug up and moved into the ninja coffin? Is this going to lead on into Season 3, or better yet, The Defenders? I bloody hope so.

And that's my full review of Daredevil Season 2: 9/10

Can't wait for Season 3!

Kilgrave - Character History

Kilgrave

Part one: Origin​

Kilgrave was a Soviet spy working for Soviet bloc. Assigned to invade an American army and steal some nerve gas. When he was spotted by a military guard, a firefight occurred, which resulted in the guard missing and hitting the nerve gas. This changed his skin purple and he told the guards this was a mistake, they all stood down. Making Kilgrave realise his powers. Bending the will of others. ​
When he arrived in Hells Kitchen, He met a couple of ladies at a bar, there first response was for him to go away, but once he asked to join them, they changed their minds. The next thing, he said "You wish to marry me" and they got married that night. ​
Over time, The purple man began to fall in love with his wife, and let her go from his mind control. She came to the realisation of what the purple man had been doing. she fled from their home and later found out she was pregnant with Kilgrave's daughter. Her life was normal, until she became thirteen, and now Kara Kilgrave also had her fathers powers.

Part two: DareDevil​

In Hells Kitchen, Kilgrave had been arrested for robbery, and need a lawyer, or maybe, two layers. He calls for Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson as well as Karen Page, Murdock being the DareDevil.  ​
Once Murdock and Page arrive at the Purple Man's cell, Kilgrave states he doesn't need a lawyer and asks the guard to set him free, which he does. then Kilgrave tries to take Murdock and page hostage, however, Matts willpower was too strong and overcomes the Purple Man's mind control, so he can only take Karen. As Kilgrave and Karen leave the cell, Matt changes into DareDevil to pursue them both. Once he makes it outside, he finds The Purple Man has already cast his powers on all the officers who he makes try to kill DareDevil. The further away the officers were from the Purple man, the weaker his affect on them is. ​
When DareDevil catches up with Kilgrave and Karen, Kilgrave, uses his powers as a distraction to get away, asking Karen to Jump out of the window. ​
After this Kilgrave appeared in comics althroughout the Marvel Universe from time to time. From the occasional DareDevil comic, to Spider-Man or the X-Men. But when Brian Michael Bendis created the Alias series, That’s when the Purple Man became a fan favourite.

Part three: Jessica Jones​

One afternoon at a restaurant in Hells Kitchen. The Purple Man simple ordered everyone in the room to simply stop breathing, because he wanted to eat with no noise. Jessica Jones took the case and headed down to the restaurant. Once she arrives she meets the Purple Man and he instantly orders her to take off her clothes. However once the police arrive, he changes his mind and orders her to attack them. ​
Once they had all left, Jessica was still under his control, and he took her home, where he never engaged in sexual activity, but instead would make her watch him having sex with random college girls and he would make her beg to be apart of it. ​
Kilgrave picks up a newspaper that reads "DareDevil saves city." and due to his hatred to the DareDevil, he orders Jessica to find and kill him, and then never return. The further she got away from The Purple Man, the less of an impact his mind control had on her. However, once she spots Scarlet Witch, she attacks her, not meaning to, or being able to stop, mistaking her for DareDevil due to the amount of red on her. During the fight, her mind simply shuts down, and When she wakes up, she finds out X-Men's Jean Gray had placed mind blocks in her, to help her escape Kilgrave mind control. ​

Now in the Netflix TV show, David Tennant portrayed the role of Kilgrave in Jessica Jones.