{"id":543699,"date":"2026-03-25T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543699\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:53:08","slug":"daredevil-born-again-cast-on-season-2-ice-parallels-in-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543699\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil Born Again Cast on Season 2, ICE Parallels in Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 2 premiere of \u201cDaredevil: Born Again<\/a>,\u201d now streaming on Disney+.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDaredevil: Born Again\u201d is back a year after it was resurrected by Disney+, and it\u2019s still as timely as ever. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the wake of Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D\u2019Onofrio) declaring martial law in New York City and outlawing crime-fighting, he\u2019s established the violent Anti-Vigilante Task Force that\u2019s locking citizens up without due process. The brutal police force in Season 2 has eerie shades of ICE detaining people and using violence against protesters, despite being written nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAny kind of reflection on reality is coincidental, but Stan Lee said Marvel reflects the world outside our window. Sometimes things just take on a life of their own,\u201d Brad Winderbaum, executive producer and head of Marvel Television, told Variety at the New York premiere Monday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Season 2 premiere, the task force is destroying local businesses on Fisk\u2019s orders and cracking down on vigilantes prowling the streets. They\u2019re looking for Daredevil (Charlie Cox<\/a>) and already locked up Swordsman (Tony Dalton) and many others; Jon Bernthal\u2019s Punisher escaped his imprisonment in the Season 1 post-credits scene.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBeing a New Yorker, what we are doing in the second season would truly be frightening for a New Yorker,\u201d said D\u2019Onofrio. \u201cThere are aspects about what we do now in the second season that are scary to think about if they were real.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJournalist BB Urich (Genneya Walton) is also publishing pro-Fisk propaganda videos that boast about crime reduction, and a disguised Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) goes undercover to learn inside secrets from her. And despite Matt Murdock being missing, Daredevil is still fighting the good fight against Kingpin. He opens the premiere with a thrilling battle aboard a cargo ship running illegal guns in the East River. Daredevil stops Kingpin\u2019s shipment, which was ordered by Matthew Lillard<\/a>\u2018s mysterious power player, Mr. Charles. Not much is known about him, but it\u2019s clear he has some powerful friends after he namedrops Julia Louis Dreyfus\u2019 CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine in his introduction.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s incredible to be a part of that kind of project that\u2019s reflecting what\u2019s happening in the world right now,\u201d said Lillard, who\u2019s making his Marvel debut with Season 2. \u201cOur hope is that, in some small part of us, you\u2019re sitting at home and realizing we need superheroes. And that\u2019s common people. People standing up for what\u2019s right in the world. Standing up for your neighbors and your friends and doing what\u2019s right. Hopefully, there\u2019s a piece of this that is a wake up call, that\u2019s a battle cry for everyday citizens to do the right thing and fight the oppression that a lot of people right now are feeling in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe episode ends with a bloody fight scene between Daredevil and Kingpin\u2019s forces. A group of cops breaks into ex-NYPD Officer Cherry\u2019s (Clark Johnson) apartment when they learn he has ties to the vigilante. They tie Cherry up and beat him, but Daredevil swoops in to save him \u2014 almost. As Daredevil pummels the cops, his heightened senses hear Cherry\u2019s faltering heartbeat, and he loses his upper hand in the fight. The officers unmask the hero, but projectiles suddenly ricochet through the window and across the room into the vital organs of the enemies. Wilson Bethel\u2019s sharpshooter Bullseye has returned and saved Daredevil, but Cherry\u2019s life still hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf it wasn\u2019t clear in the first season, \u201cDaredevil: Born Again\u201d isn\u2019t afraid to get its hands dirty in Season 2. It\u2019s by far the most violent series on Disney+ and drops its fair share of F-bombs as well as bone-crunching punches. As it continues to reflect the darkness of the real world, Winderbaum is grateful for Disney\u2019s support as they begin shooting Season 3.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDisney is a company that\u2019s run by the artists. It really is,\u201d he said. \u201cIt sounds corny, but I know these people and I really feel like it\u2019s as true as it was in Walt\u2019s time. They really support the creatives. It\u2019s a difficult thing to do at this scale, but they\u2019ve never once told us we can\u2019t do something.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 2 premiere of \u201cDaredevil: Born Again,\u201d now streaming on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[178071,9613,88,97212,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-543699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-charlie-cox","9":"tag-daredevil-born-again","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-matthew-lillard","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}