
New York City is always a character in any bit of media it is a part of. It is the fabric that makes Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) who he is in Daredevil and Daredevil: Born Again, and in season 2, we’re seeing how New York is willing to fight back.
Many times in superhero stories, New York becomes a caricature of itself. “You mess with him, you mess with all of us,” kind of mentality. But Daredevil: Born Again does something smart with the way it shows New York City throughout season 2. At the start of the season, I was confused. New Yorkers would not put up with a mayor like Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). He gives Eric Adams energy and we all saw how New York treated him.