Daredevil: Born Again is exactly what it says on the tin: a new era for Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock, and a return to his gritty, grounded corner of New York City. Its past four episodes have more than delivered on the revival that Daredevil fans have been holding out for, plus a little extra. Aside from a few hiccups, Born Again is the perfect marriage of the original Netflix series and Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. Matt’s New York feels just the same as it did almost a decade ago, but it’s now populated with familiar characters and somewhat larger stakes.
For all the novelty inherent in that concept, there’s one familiar face we’ve been anticipating about as much as — if not more than — Cox himself. After all, it’s hard to think of Daredevil without his dark foil in Frank Castle, aka the Punisher, and Born Again won a lot of fans over with the promise to bring Frank back into the fold. It’s taken a few weeks for the series to make good on that, though its third episode did kick the door wide open for the Punisher’s return. Now, Episode 4 capitalizes on that potential with gusto, reuniting two beloved anti-heroes and reviving what might be the greatest part of the original series.
