Episode 1: “Bang”
The writers are smart and know the audience. Give us what we want right up front. Whereas last year’s story was a slow-burn between Matt and Fisk, Petrie & Ramirez flip the format and give us Daredevil kicking ass (the suit’s growing on me) and the Punisher right up front. Bernthal’s entrance is beyond awesome
But it also sets up the problem with the more-is-more approach, that it becomes a retread of what came before. In particular, the show can’t seem to find what’s compelling about Foggy and Karen. And man is this show dark. I’m not even talking about the men hung-from-meat-hooks-to-die dark or the camera-pull-back through-a-bullet-wound dark. I’m talking like indecipherable, fire-your-lighting-guy dark. That climatic fight scene between Daredevil and Punisher should have been, you know, climatic. Instead, I was deciding who was who.
