Review by Ash_Williamz

For a series that started off strong, I was rather disappointed after binge watching every episode in a row, thinking just 5 episodes in that maybe it could redeem itself, but sadly it didn't. The plot is nothing more than your typical "hero vs. villain", and almost right from the beginning, Daredevil has this burning hatred for Wilson Fisk, a man whose motives and intentions were pretty vague at his revealing. It felt really forced to me. And Karen, oh man... I really hate her. She became so annoying, so soon on, and her motives were even more ludicrous! She acted like a reporter/detective all the way through, when she's really supposed to be a secretary at a law firm, as if she had a good reason for that, other than being infuriatingly curious and careless pretending to be a heroine, not giving a damn about the consequences of her actions and how they affect the people around her, believing that her way is always the right one. She was literally obsessed after just a few episodes, all that mattered to her, all she could ever talk about with anyone was always "Fisk, Fisk, Fisk". She acted all tough as hell, like she shouldn't be scared sh** less after what happened to her, and she knew the kind of people she was dealing with, and yet when she's the one caught up in the middle, she's crying hysterically and whining all the time! Seriously, what is it with main female characters on TV being so annoying, that you just want to scratch your eyes out every time they're on, but even more so with Karen! I really, really hate that b**ch! Back to Fisk, he is really the only great thing about this show almost all the way through, right until the season finale (no spoilers, but if you know who the Kingpin is in the comics, then you'll surely be as disappointed as I was). But Vincent D'Onofrio's performance gave Fisk so much more depth than all of Marvel's movie villains combined, I was so in love with him, that I almost rooted for him. He wasn't just some regular bad guy with the power and goals, he had a sincere vision and was a deeply troubled man who just wanted to be loved like anybody else. I think it's pretty original, and to let the villain have a romance and exploring his life outside of his "job" was just the icing on the cake. It made him more of a human, like the good guys are always portrayed as, instead of just this criminal mastermind, the story's requiring him to be. But in a way, it's still sad that the antagonist is more compelling than the protagonist you're actually supposed to root with. Oh and finally, for a show this dark and violent, it frustrates me that there's still no swearing involved at all. It further drives me away from the fact that this is not just another PG-13 flick.