{"id":493827,"date":"2026-03-25T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493827\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:31:09","slug":"daredevil-born-again-season-2-review-hits-the-bullseye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493827\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil Born Again Season 2 review \u2014 &#8216;hits the bullseye&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D\u2019Onofrio) hunts down Daredevil, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) fight back from the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>Streaming on: Disney+<\/p>\n<p>Episodes viewed: 8 of 8<\/p>\n<p>The construction of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/tv\/reviews\/daredevil-born-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daredevil: Born\u00a0Again<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0first season was infamously\u00a0Frankensteinian. A creative overhaul mid-production \u2014 complete with new writers and stronger ties to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/tv\/reviews\/daredevil-season-3-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daredevil\u2019s Netflix incarnation<\/a> \u2014 was the right call, but it left a patchy, incomplete residue in its wake. With its sophomore effort, returning showrunner Dario\u00a0Scardapane\u00a0has the benefit of presenting one unified vision from beginning to end. The result is a season\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0not only better than its immediate predecessor, but in some ways as good as\u00a0Daredevil\u00a0has ever been on screen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mO8\/B8AAqsB1DKTUZgAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Daredevil-Born-Again-Season-2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As ever, the biggest reasons for that are Charlie Cox and Vincent D\u2019Onofrio. As Daredevil \u2014\u00a0now clad in a black-and-red suit, with comics-accurate interlocking Ds \u2014\u00a0and Fisk, they routinely plumb the depths of their characters\u2019 emotions, even when the writing is broadly familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of hitting hard, the brutal action is a consistent highlight.<\/p>\n<p>As their eternal psychological chess game continues,\u00a0Scardapane\u00a0interrogates some depressingly relevant political themes: whether evidence still matters, the cost of integrity, and how even the smallest act of rebellion can make an impact. When Fisk\u2019s Anti-Vigilante Task Force sticks random New York citizens into vans for no reason at all,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0hard not to think about\u00a0what\u2019s\u00a0happening in the real world, and it makes everything hit that much harder.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of hitting hard, the brutal action is a consistent highlight. While it\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0aim for the ambitious long takes that helped put\u00a0Daredevil\u00a0on the map when it first debuted, there are multiple beautifully shot and immaculately choreographed sequences that leave their mark. Many of them involve Benjamin Poindexter, aka Bullseye (Wilson Bethel, having more fun in the role than ever before), for whom everything in his vicinity is a potentially lethal weapon.<\/p>\n<p>More standout action sequences arrive when Daredevil teams up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/tv\/reviews\/jessica-jones-season-1-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jessica Jones<\/a> (Krysten Ritter). One of the few positives in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/tv\/news\/marvel-studios-exploring-mcu-comeback-for-defenders-iron-fist-luke-cage-and-jessica-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Defenders<\/a>\u00a0was their fun dynamic, and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a geeky delight to see them share the screen again, especially as it unlocks Daredevil\u2019s lighter side.<\/p>\n<p>It all leads to a conclusion that feels much more satisfying and consequential than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/features\/daredevil-born-again-found-its-way-and-sets-up-a-thrilling-season-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the cliffhanger of\u00a0Born\u00a0Again\u2019s\u00a0first season<\/a>, shaking things up in a way that we\u00a0haven\u2019t\u00a0seen before while paving the way to the future with a few familiar faces. If\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0as strong as this batch of episodes,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0cause for excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Thematically timely with some ferocious action to boot, Born Again\u2019s second season largely hits the bullseye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D\u2019Onofrio) hunts down Daredevil, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Karen Page (Deborah Ann&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}