Join Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection. No "big boss" yet, but we've got Toby Leonard Moore's nefarious "Wesley" as the pristine point man. There's the Russians doing the kidnapping, Madame Gao making the drugs, a Japanese guy named Nobu with the blueprints, and "Owl of Wall Street" (at least in the comics) Leland Owlsley doing the money-manuevering. All while using a small, segregated syndicate. So Karen being Matt and Foggy's first official case connected everything nicely to the larger conspiracy story of "he who shall not be named" working to rebuild/take over hard-hit Hell's Kitchen through murder, extortion, and a myriad of other ruthless tactics.
And Woll is great at playing characters who can be both victim and crusader. Charlie Cox's Matt and Elden Henson's Foggy had a great chemistry, bouncing dry witticisms off each other, with Foggy there to note every so often that Matt has a habit, despite being blind, of zeroing in on "stunning women with questionable character." Enter Deborah Ann Woll's Karen, who served not only as the catalyst "case" for the show but as a character who wound up becoming a part of the team. "Into the Ring" played as a great opener, setting up a small piece of the much larger world to unfold. Matt may have a slight advantage in certain circumstances, but overall he's just a highly skilled fighter going out there, sans gadgets (aside from the occasional club), and taking on guys with his bare hands. And toward the end of the episode, when he's fighting Kingpin's assassin, Matt comes face to face with a regular human being who can fight just as well as he can. The opening action piece shows Matt taking out a small cluster of sleazy human traffickers, but he works for it. And see him occasionally react to sounds and air movement. Like, the show doesn't cheesily/easily switch to Daredevil "sonar-vision" during his fights. And to that regard, I really appreciate how Daredevil's "abilities" - aka his heightened senses - don't get treated like powers. I'll tell you what I loved from this set-up/premiere episode "Into the Ring" - The fact that Daredevil doesn't automatically wipe the floor with everyone he faces is awesome.
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And the way the series borrows from Frank Miller's The Man Without Fear allows the show to root around in Matt's fledgling motivations for both starting up a no-frills law firm as well as deciding to hit the streets at night as a black-clad ass-kicker. Matt Murdock's lawyer/vigilante persona was always a mixture that would work better as an ongoing series than as a movie.
This is a world connected to the MCU, but in such a way that it also remains somewhat closed off and separate. Poverty, crime, drugs, and the very human evil that plagues common, downtrodden citizens.
A gloomier, more intense tone focused on sin and salvation. A series that feels appropriately different from the rest of the MCU, in the same way that Daredevil comics feel different than, say, Avengers comics.
See All of IGN's Daredevil: Season 1 Episode ReviewsA cool, solid start for Marvel's Daredevil - Netflix's super-gritty, broken bones take on the famed Hell's Kitchen hero.
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