Thursday, 16 April 2015

Hell's Kitchen is cooking up something incredible and it tastes devilishly good.

Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll): Can I ask a personal question?
Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox): I haven't always been blind.

Karen: I guess that's what everyone wants to know.

Matt: That or, "How do you comb your hair?"

There is something that is just so seductive about this poster.

Well what a fantastic move that was with Daredevil? If you haven’t seen any of it, I beg you go watch it. It’s a brutal and dark take on Marvel’s series. While Marvel is on the upswing, taking time to produce something of merit with the story was really spot on move.  Along with the decision to move to T.V. and collaborate with Netflix, Marvel are killing it!

Initially I was a little confused with the Charlie Cox casting as Matt Murdock, I loved Stardust for so many reasons I thought I wouldn't be able to leave Cox’s Tristan Thorn behind. I know he’s done a bunch of stuff since then, Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey and then there’s The Theory of Everything. He’s had a slow burner of a start to his career but that’s not to say there’s not great things coming from him. As far as Cox goes with Daredevil, it’s a fantastic surprise that he is really great at the superhero thing. He absolutely kills any memory of Ben Affleck in the role. This is a gritty and dark piece of T.V. a total contrast to Marvel’s work with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. which I have kind of let fall by the wayside after the first few episodes, the same can be said for D.C’s Gotham they just don’t have the pull that I wanted them to have.

Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, I have most certainly had mega-girl crush on her since her first appearance on True Blood and I've been eagerly anticipating what she would move onto next. She is as charming and tenacious as I had hoped and the fact that the looming/inevitable romance has been somewhat put off in the series, it’s really refreshing to see that the sub-plot was less about romance and more about the friendships. The friendship between Murdock and Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) is especially captivating watching these friends deal with each other’s live choices. Henson is far becoming one of my favourite supporting actors, for me he was incredible in The Butterfly Effect (which I think is totally underrated BTW.) and who can forget The Mighty Ducks! OK I JOKE! Maybe? Who knows? Now the antagonist of the whole scenario is the one and only Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) brilliantly cast and a character of many layers. Thankfully they left behind the Bullseye/KingPin storyline from the atrocious Affleck Daredevil. Fisk is dark to perfection and oh did he make me hide behind cushions! Having now finished the series I can only eagerly await The Defenders which should be appearing on Netflix by the end of this year, finger’s crossed!!

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