The Iron Fist tries to be the protector of a city that did not ask for one, while other people work out how to take the power off him.
The second season is shorter, faster and much better disciplined than the first. It narrows to a street-level fight over who gets to hold the power, and it treats the fist as a thing that can be lost rather than as an identity.
It is the last season of the show. The improvement arrived a year too late to save it.
How it connects
Watching these first makes this one land.
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Facts last checked on Sep 7, 2026
Released: September 7, 2018