The original Daredevil premiered on Netflix 11 years ago, raising the benchmark for live-action superhero television and launching an interconnected slate of street-level Marvel TV shows on the platform. While Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was technically the first MCU show, it was Daredevil that proved to audiences that superheroes could also make for prestige television, and without its original three-season run, it’s hard to say if we’d ever have had shows like Watchmen or Lanterns.
Although Netflix canceled Daredevil in 2018 after its third season, Disney+ gave it a second life with Daredevil: Born Again, a direct sequel that began in 2025. Now, two seasons later, history is repeating itself, as Born Again is also set to end after its third season. It’s a bittersweet announcement, but it’s also a golden opportunity for the MCU to rectify a mistake that started with the original Netflix shows and properly fold Daredevil and the other Defenders into the MCU’s larger narrative.
