A blind lawyer in Hell's Kitchen takes on the cases nobody pays for by day and the people behind them by night, while the man remaking the neighbourhood rises alongside him.
It is a two-hander. Matt Murdock’s early nights in a black mask are cut against Wilson Fisk assembling the money, the police and the buildings, and the season spends as much time on why Fisk believes he is saving the city as on why Murdock cannot stop.
It is also the first thing in this material to be genuinely violent in a way that costs something. Fights end with people unable to stand, including the protagonist, and the show is patient enough to make that read as damage rather than as choreography.
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For years it was an open question whether the Netflix series belonged to the same continuity as the films. The people who made them always said so; Marvel Studios did not.
The answer arrived as a filing rather than a statement. When Echo was released in January 2024 the Netflix series were retroactively added to the official Disney+ timeline, Daredevil placed between the Guardians films and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Around the same time Marvel Studios’ head of streaming said he felt confident saying Daredevil specifically was part of the Sacred Timeline, which is a carefully bounded sentence and was reported as one.
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Released: April 10, 2015