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Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 – TV Review

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Daredevil: Born Again Season 2

  • Creators: Dario Scardapane, Matt Corman, Chris Ord
  • Starring: Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Margarita Leviava, Deborah Ann Woll, Michael Gandolfini, Arty Froushan, Jon Bernthal, Wilson Bethel, Nikki M. James, Genneya Walton, Ayelet Zurer
  • Eight episode season, eight episodes watched for review

Grade: B+

A group of ersatz thugs masquerading as lawmen are given carte blanche by the administration, patrolling the streets, rounding up ordinary citizens in the name of preventing violent crime, where they’re taken to black sites and never heard from again. No, you’re not watching CNN, you’re watching Daredevil: Born Again season 2, which airs its season premiere today on Disney+. Season one of the MCU show touched on the real-world parallels by electing Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio, still doing career-best work) as the mayor of New York City, despite his blatantly corrupt past, and the setup of the Anti-Vigilante Task Force (AVTF). The new season fully leans into what happens when laws and norms are ignored by those in power, while still making an entertaining superhero show.

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Eternals – Movie Review

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Eternals

  • Director: Chloe Zhao
  • Screenwriters: Chloe Zhao, Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo
  • Starring: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee

Grade: B-

This post originally appeared on ObsessiveViewer.com

Who are the Eternals? And why did Marvel recruit Chloe Zhao, director of the film that won 3 Oscars earlier this year – including Best Picture – to direct a film about them? Fans of Zhao’s work know her penchant for methodically finding the humanity in stories that have often been told before. And those sensibilities stand at a stark contrast to the bulk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s modus operandi. We love Tony Stark and Captain America because of their charisma and their duty to serve, but what would happen if they ever questioned that duty? This is the question that lies at the heart of Zhao’s Eternals, and while this may stir an interesting debate, the answers likely will turn off mainstream MCU fans.

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