Review by Logan
Throughout its 13 episodes, Daredevil has morphed its way across several genres. It starts out as a crime show, turns into a drama, and ends up an action series before the very end. This episode is firmly in the lattermost category, with the most high-stakes fighting the series has seen yet.
Review by Logan
Righteousness. Evil. Justice. Corruption. These are polarities, the very sort of ideas that fuel men of passion like Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk. They also fuel men like Ben Urich, whose quest to unveil the truth about Wilson Fisk is given a substantial increase in screen time in the twelfth episode of Daredevil. But for all the show’s development on questions of morality, the thing that left most an impression on me this time around was how these polarities relate to the show’s dark tone.
Originality in story structure is hard to come by these days, most especially in the superhero genre. Origin stories have been done over and over again, to the point that, for most beloved comic book characters, they become unbearably superfluous. Even when it comes to Daredevil’s story, we’ve seen it before: a boxer’s son is in an accident where chemical waste gets into his eyes. In the absence of his sight, his other senses kick up and he gets a radar sense. Then his dad is killed because of the politics behind boxing, and he vows justice Batman style.
Review by Logan
“I’m not trying to be a hero. I’m just a guy that got fed up with men like you and I decided to do something about it.”
