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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Daredevil: Born Again review – could Marvel’s new series go one better than The Penguin?

Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in Daredevil: Born Again, wearing a red and black superhero costume.
Crisis of conscience … Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in Daredevil: Born Again. Photograph: Giovanni Rufino

For those of you who like to keep count, Daredevil: Born Again is the 13th small-screen series under the aegis of the Marvel Television team (Agatha All Along last year was the 11th, and the 12th, the animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, launched a few weeks ago). For those of you who like to go more by what it feels like, it is number 872.

So what do we have here? Well, it’s a revival/reboot/continuation of the Daredevil series that ran on Netflix for three seasons from 2015-2018. There were rumours that it began life as a comedy but was reshot to bring it more in line with fans’ expectations for a series about one of the MCU’s grittier characters. Let the online historians debate it all in a multiverse of furious threads while the rest of us get on with watching the actual show.

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