Cavemen Rewind #1: Daredevil Season 1 (Netflix)

Hey, Fans! Cavemen Rick here with some exciting news. I’m introducing you all to our first ever Cavemen Rewind, a reoccurring piece where we go back and review older shows we haven’t watched yet or a rewatch of some of our favorites. Like you all, we like catching things we didn’t see the first time around and the excitement of first time viewer discussion. Got a good show you want our ideas on, contact us and we’ll get on it! First up is Daredevil on Netflix.

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If anyone has listened to our radio show, You’ve heard Mark give me hell for never watching Daredevil. I’ve seen all the episodes after with the exception of half of Jessica Jones season 2. Why I couldn’t sit down and get through Daredevil is beyond me. Maybe it was the sour taste Ben Affleck’s version left combined with the fact it started off so slow. Whatever it was I couldn’t get past the first 4 episodes after multiple attempts.

Finally, this week on PTO from work I forced myself to sit down and watch and have to say I wasn’t pleasantly surprised. The second episode hallway fight scene is one of the best out of all 5 shows. That’s the kind of fighting I expected in Iron Fist but just didn’t get. Now Mark has said season 2 of Daredevil is the best the Netflix series has to offer and for me, that’ll be an uphill battle. So far, Jessica Jones and Kilgrave’s psychological hold over her kept me the most interested so far. Not that any of the other shows were bad, but David Tennant’s Kilgrave was phenomenal.

With that being said, Vincent D’onofrio is the closest portrayal to a comic book villain in Wilson Fisk as I’ve seen so far. Even without the white suit, he’s got the look down to a science, his voice sounds like you’d imagine the character sounding, and has all the mannerisms to boot. From here on out, whenever I read the character in a comic book, his will be the voice I read it in. He 100% nailed his character.

All in all, Daredevil was a fun lead into the Marvel television universe. The MTU? No, that doesn’t sound right. Anyway, while the back half of the series picked up a bit more it was the predictability that sort of derailed my excitement. We knew if Fisk got caught, someone would break him out, leaving Daredevil into a final battle. While I won’t nitpick too much of the show, the first season was obviously their trial and error show. Once they expanded more to the other shows and knew what fans expected, adjustments were made and the shared universe really started to grow. Judging solely on it being the start of the series I’d say Daredevil got off to a decent start.[CMRickTwitter][BXTwitter]