Netflix presents an Amazing Second Season of MARVEL's DAREDEVIL!!

Last year Netflix brought us an amazingly good run on the first season of Marvel’s DAREDEVIL. Now, the second season can also be seen on Netflix. The first season concentrated on the rise of Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, oddly enough a villain that originated in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man but that has since also diverted to the pages of Daredevil and other superheroes. Although Wilson Fisk does have a cameo this season as a villain in prison, the story now revolves around a new character, Frank Castle, who takes care of criminals in New York in a much more lethal way than DD: he kills them. Castle thinks that DD’s way is inefficient as DD beats them but they then get away, or out of jail and start all over again. Castle therefor feels DD is a coward who uses only half measures in not killing those who need to be killed. Frank Castle is played by Jon Bernthal, who has been seen in The Walking Dead as Shane and as the lead in Frank Darabont’s miniseries MOB CITY. Bernthal gives Frank Castle a Travis Bickle look, which makes this rendition of the Punisher extremely interesting ! (For those of you not familiar with Travis Bickle, please check out Martin Scorsese's legendary film TAXI DRIVER now!!!)

Matt Murdock’s relation with Foggy Nelson and Karen Page is however also sorely tested when he is visited by his former girlfriend Elektra Natchios. Elektra was also trained by Stick and she is now out to destroy The Hand but needs Daredevil’s help to do it. Matt finds out the hard way that all the time he spends as Daredevil is time he can not be useful as Matt Murdock, attorney and this has severe consequences for him. Rosario Dawson again cameo’s as Claire and Vincent d’Onofrio also reappears as Wilson Fisk. Scott Glenn is back again as Stick. Although the reviews of the second season are less impressive than the first, I must admit that this series is extremely compelling!

The acting is also very good here. Jon Bernthal is superb as Frank Castle while Elodie Yung as Elektra clearly shows talent as a woman who causes trouble for Matt. Charlie Cox and his colleagues are excellent in their roles and I look forward to the next season. It is clear in this show that these adventures take place in the same world as that of Jessica Jones and so, it will also be very rewarding to see these two series and the next two, Luke Cage, to follow in October and Iron Fist, to follow hopefully next yearm culminate in The Defenders.