Daredevil S01 E13 – Costume time!

Previously: BEN.
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Daredevil

Annie: Season Finale! Here we go.

We open on the back of a hearse. Literally. It’s Ben’s funeral and I’m not ready for this. Sad montage at the gravesite with closeups of Karen, Matt, Ben’s wife (which is a particularly terrible punch in the heart), co-workers, and so on. They lower Ben’s coffin into the ground.

Jessica: I was never going to be ready for this.

Marines: Actual tears escaped my eyes.

Annie: JUSTICE AND WAX.

Sad gravesite. Karen tells Matt she needs a minute and goes to see Doris. Karen introduces herself. Doris recognizes Karen by name and tells Karen that Ben was very impressed by her drive to never give up until she finds the truth. She tells Karen that they never got around to having kids, but that she imagined Ben would’ve wanted a kid just like Karen.

Karen tells Doris that she thinks Ben’s death is all her fault. Way to make this about you, KAREN.

Karen tells Doris that she thinks she pushed Ben into taking a story that caused his death. Doris tells Karen that Ben never would let himself be pushed into anything that he didn’t want to do and that he died doing what he loved.

Karen asks Doris if there is anything she can do to help. Doris tells her that Ben made sure she was taken care of.

Matt is standing near the gravesite with the Minister. He asks Matt how he’s doing and Matt tells him he’s not doing so great because he’s been unable to stop all the bad going on in the city. The minister tells him that Matt can’t hold himself responsible for that, but Matt wants to blame himself anyway.

Karen places a rose on Ben’s casket and then she and Matt leave.

Murdock Lonely Law Firm. Karen is ranting, and Matt points out that Ben said he didn’t have anything proving a connection to Fisk. Karen goes to say something, then changes her mind. She instead tells Matt that Foggy not being there makes everything worse. Matt reminds Karen that Foggy left a message, but Karen is having none of Foggy’s excuses for missing Ben’s funeral. (J: Yeah, doubtful you had a good enough excuse Foggy. Not cool.)

Matt takes the blame for Foggy, because that’s what he’s into these days, but Karen says everyone shares the blame in a relationship. Matt disagrees and tries to send Karen home to rest. Karen says she can’t, because she’s worried Fisk is going to find out that she was involved.

Mari: It feels like she almost tells him about her trauma flashbacks to killing Wesley, but she stops and gives another v good reason for being worried. She’s got plenty of them.

Annie: Karen does this a few times. If only she knew all of Matt’s secrets, she then might feel like she could safely open up to him about her trauma. But that’s not how this is going to go down.

Karen says Foggy is right, that there is no way to beat Fisk when he’s paying off the police and the media. She’s pretty convinced that Fisk is going to find out about her, and I’m now looking for Fisk in all the dark corners of all the shots. (J: Me too! So terrifyingly paranoid, omg.)

Matt’s all ‘I will keep you safe, all the baddies are going to get what’s coming to them, including Fisk’. He walks off, leaving Karen to think.

Chez Fisk. He is sitting at a table, looking sad. Vanessa enters and Fisk jumps up, telling her she should be in bed. Vanessa explains she was calling for him. He apologizes and helps her to a chair at the table.

Jessica: Kinda weird, but sure. Was she seriously just shouting at him from down the hall? I can just picture it. “Wilson. Wilson! Hey W– oh hell I’ll just go over there myself.”

Mari: I feel like I did that to my mother a lot, but like between the ages of 8 and 15, Vanessa.

Annie: Vanessa asks about the papers on the table and Fisk explains they’re paperwork for money transfers to get her out of the country. She tells him she’s not leaving without him. Fisk says he’s not asking her to, he’s just taking a look at the numbers. Vanessa asks if everything is okay, and he tells her he just has to get Leland to look them over.

Cut to shady darkened street. Leland is explaining that things are good, they’ve got zoning approved from shady senators, they’ve paid everyone off, the only slight hiccup is that they’ll need a replacement for Madame Gao’s heroin money, because without it they’re going to have some cashflow issues.

I hate when the heroin money causes cashflow issues, that’s the worst.

Fisk asks Leland what’s up with Gao. Leland says nothing really, but maybe she’s not as good an ally as they thought she was.

As they’re walking, it’s getting darker and now the camera angle changes so we’re looking at the backs of Fisk and Leland. I am waiting for Fisk to go ragey-psycho any minute. But instead, Fisk just gives him some papers. Fisk explains that the night before they found Wesley shot dead (BY KAREN! Sorry, still not over that.), he asked Wesley to transfer some money around. Leland looks put out, because that’s his job. Fisk tells Leland that it is his job, which is why he wants Leland to look at the numbers, because there are some irregularities.

Leland is all ‘No kidding, I move money all the time to hide it from the Feds, duh’, but bro is shaking like crazy.

Fisk points out Leland’s obvious nervousness and decides that’s Leland is acting so strange because he is stealing from Fisk, killed Wesley because he found out, and that Leland is working with Madame Gao, probably.

Fisk accuses Leland of trying to kill him. Leland tells him that yeah, he had something to do with the whole poisoning thing, but that Fisk wasn’t the target. Vanessa was. Leland is so gonna die now.

J: So, so much. How did he think this was a good move?

Mari: Pretty much word for word what I shouted at my TV.

Annie: Leland tells Fisk they were just trying to get rid of the distraction because he’s been a hot mess since Vanessa has been part of his life. Leland tells Fisk that clearly the plan didn’t work, so instead, he’ll be peacing out, taking half of Fisk’s money with him.

Does this guy SERIOUSLY think he’s walking away from this? He gonna be so dead.

Which is basically what Fisk shouts at Leland. Leland has Detective Hoffman on his side, so Fisk is going to just let him go if he doesn’t want to be brought down by the police. Leland explains how Hoffman will be delivered to the FBI if he doesn’t check in daily, and that Hoffman will have enough information to bring Fisk down. Fisk says there is no way that he could be brought down without bringing down Leland with him.

Leland explains he’s been hiding money for people like Fisk his whole life, so he knows how to do it and keep his fingerprints out of the mess. Leland explains that’s why he’s only taking half of Fisk’s money. A win-win situation.

Fisk doesn’t agree and punches Leland right in the face! Leland tasers Fisk in the neck but it only seems to energize him? Fisk goes psycho-bananas and throws Leland down a broken elevator shaft. Fisk then tells his goon (does this goon have a name? I can only see half his face) to find Hoffman and kill him.

Jessica: I mean, I guess it was nice and cathartic for Leland to have his moment and tell Fisk off to his face… but he didn’t get to enjoy it very long, and I doubt it was very comforting on the way down that elevator shaft. Madame Gao is better at this than he is.

Mari: Yeah, she ran away to her other planet, or whatever. 

Annie: Darkened gym. Matt is kicking the ass of a punching bag. Foggy shows up and Matt wants to know how he found him. Foggy said he knew for a while and thought it had something to do with Matt’s dad, but now he knows it’s cuz of his alter-ego. Foggy wants to know why Matt isn’t out breaking faces and Matt explains he was trying to do that, but couldn’t get close to Ben’s editor, who Karen suspects is working for Fisk. Matt goes back to punching the bag.

Foggy asks about his anger issues and Matt has a sick burn for him about how Foggy isn’t his priest! And that he could’ve met his priest if he’d shown up at Ben’s funeral.

Foggy asks if Karen is upset, and Matt says he claimed the blame for the rift between the two of them.

Foggy says he was on his way to the funeral, but he got a call from Marci. Foggy tells Matt how she’s been helping him by copying documents from the law firm about all of Fisk’s shady dealings. (J: I was honestly a bit surprised Marci was helping them. I suppose there are redemptive bits to her character after all…) Matt is pissed off that they keep dragging more people into this mess that will probably get them very dead like Ben. Foggy assures Matt that they’re being careful.

Matt is mad about it, and tells Foggy that he will bring down Fisk alone before more people die. Foggy reminds Matt how the last time he tangled with Fisk, Fisk nearly killed him. Foggy is worried that Fisk will kill Matt, or worse Matt will kill Fisk. Foggy worries what that might do to Matt’s very Catholic soul and insists that they bring Fisk down by using the law.

Emo!Matt is all ‘I thought Nelson Murdock was OVER!’ Foggy tells Matt there is nothing he wants more than to have things the way they were before, but he’s not sure they can get there. Matt agrees that they may not be able to go back to the way things were, but maybe they can find a way to move forward.

Uuuugh, the friendship feels this show gives me. I get how betrayed Foggy feels, Matt did some pretty shitty things and broken trust is such a hard thing to fix. But OH MY GOD, can’t you boys work this out? You’re killing me. Right in the feels.

Police station. Team Nelson-Murdock are following Officer Mahoney out the front door. Mahoney is telling them that things are bad enough, he doesn’t need to be seen making friends with the enemy, especially when they come bringing bribes of cheap cigars.

They convince Mahoney to share and he tells them they found immigrants and heroin, and the guy in the mask running from the scene of the warehouse fire from a few days ago. Mahoney says he got his ass kicked, but what the masked man said made him think. Matt blurts out that the masked man was working with Ben. Mahoney wants to know how he knew that and Foggy does an unconvincing job of covering for him by stammering through saying they were working the same case with Ben.

Matt asks if there are any leads on the case, and Mahoney says he can’t talk about that. Foggy says the story Ben was working on was about Fisk. Mahoney mentions that masked man also brought Fisk’s name up and said that most of the police force was being paid off by Fisk.

Matt wonders if Mahoney thinks there is any truth to that story, and Mahoney says the things he’s seen makes him wonder. Foggy goes on to explain the whole thing with Ben finding Fisk’s mother and getting information from her and that’s why Ben wound up dead. Mahoney says the police found nothing at the scene of the crime, that even Ben’s hard drives and notebooks were missing.

They get interrupted by two cops coming out of the station. One on his cellphone, who shouts out to Mahoney that they’re looking for him inside. He goes back to his phone conversation and Matt uses his super hearing to listen in to what the cop is talking about. He promises that they’ll find the rat.

Mahoney has nothing else to tell them. As Mahoney leaves, Matt tells Foggy that he’d run into cellphone cop when he was wearing his mask and that they’re looking for Hoffman, who is definitely not dead. They decide the key is to find Hoffman before Fisk does.

At Not!Nelson-Murdock, the gang is back together! They’re sitting around the table, pouring over a bunch of documents. Foggy is talking about how badly he wants a deli sandwich and asking why he became a lawyer again when he could’ve opened a deli and aww, it’s a very cute moment. (J: I missed these!) (M: It’s been so dark for so long.)

Karen is happy to have the gang back together the way it should be. Foggy says it’s a start, but Matt changes the subject quickly. They turn back to the task at hand – going through the papers Marci smuggled out to find a hint at where Owlsley might be hiding Hoffman.

Foggy says that finding Hoffman will be a game changer. That it will bring down Fisk, but also clear the man in the mask’s name. Karen asks if Hoffman will really turn on Fisk and we get a mini recap of the show thus far? IDK. (M: #seasonfinalethings)

Matt goes over the laundry list of bad things Fisk has had a role in. This is an example of the pacing problems this show has. Why are we having this scene that seems to put the breaks on what they’re building up to?

Karen wants to know how Foggy and Matt know that it’s Owsley that’s hiding Hoffman. There is a long, awkward pause until Foggy once again tries to fill the gaps in by saying the man in the mask told them. Karen wants all the details about their meeting with MM, and Matt and Foggy do a terrible job of covering.

How has Matt maintained his secrecy all this time when he is so bad at lying about it?

Jessica: Yeah I didn’t like this part. In the episode where Foggy learned about Matt, Karen came over too and was way more astute than she’s being now, in the midst of this terrible stammerfest of non-explanations. My best excuse for her is that her SHOOTING OF WESLEY (sorry) has her distracted. Also, just tell her, dammit! 

Mari: She’s so involved otherwise that not telling her doesn’t make sense to me.

Annie: Foggy is about to call Marci to see if she can help narrow the search when Karen notices some weirdness with the real estate holdings. One of the properties mysteriously drops off the records, so they decide that must be where they’re holding Hoffman. Matt tells Foggy and Karen to keep working while he goes down to the police station to share what they’ve learned.

Karen points out he could just call them, but Matt lies smoothly, this time, that Fisk might be tapping the lines.

Foggy follows Matt as he tries to leave, to try to convince him not to go check out the address by himself. We get a weird pan and close up on Matt’s face as he explains to Foggy that this is the point where he has to put on the mask and go after Hoffman, even if Foggy doesn’t agree with.

Fisk’s convoy of criminal SUVs. Fisk’s phone rings and he answers it. We only get Fisk’s half of the conversation. He tells whoever to send the closest team and that there are to be no survivors.

Dark and rainy street. A guy wearing a leather coat is walking along carrying a white plastic bag. He slips through a broken fence and enters an abandoned warehouse type building. He announces to the people inside that he’s brought subs instead of pizza because pizza boxes are hard to carry? IDK.

Guy in leather jacket starts handing out the subs, as the others are discussing how much time they have left until ‘he calls’. Police bust in and shoot them all dead except for Hoffman. The shady police officer holds a gun to Hoffman’s head and Hoffman closes his eyes. We hear gun shots and grunts, but no shooty-explodey happens to Hoffman’s head. Hoffman decides to sneak a peek and there is Daredevil, kicking ass. He easily drops the corrupt cops and then walks over to where Hoffman is sitting, pulls out a chair and casually sits down. Daredevil tells Hoffman he can agree to fix everything by turning evidence on Fisk, or he can be left there to be killed by the next round of henchmen Fisk sends.

Hoffman starts freaking out because Fisk owns all the cops and they’ll kill him dead before he can do anything about it. Daredevil tells Hoffman he can safely turn himself in to Mahoney. Hoffman goes to get up and Daredevil flips the table and punches Hoffman in the face. He threatens Hoffman that he’ll be watching him and if he doesn’t turn himself in, it will mean real bad things.

15th Precinct. Eerie music is playing and it’s all very dramatic and in slow motion. Someone is walking towards Mahoney. It’s Hoffman, of course. And I’m waiting for one of the dirty cops to recognize him and shoot him. Can’t take this tension.

Hoffman makes it to Mahoney and tells him that he needs to make a statement.

In the next scene, a camera is being set up to film Hoffman’s statement. Foggy, Matt and Karen are there, too. Foggy is going over the conditions of Hoffman’s confessions. Foggy says that Hoffman wants protective custody and will wave immunity. The cops across the table want to know what Hoffman wants in return and Matt explains that he wants nothing, that Hoffman regrets participating in Fisk’s Crime Inc, and wants to unburden his soul.

Hoffman tells the cops and lawyers that he’s taken money to do things for Fisk and that he knows there are other cops, judges and even a senator who has also taken money from Fisk. The woman across the table tells him she needs the details. Matt looks over at Karen and smiles smugly as Hoffman starts his detailed statement.

Cut to montage of people Fisk bought off getting round up by the FBI set to Nessun Dorma. The last person arrested is the corrupt senator, which segues into a media scrum as the senator is being taken away in handcuffs. Reporters are shouting questions at him and he is denying all involvement.

Mari: The most shocking part to me was that it wasn’t the editor at the newspaper who was in Fisk’s pocket, but some other woman. I was convinced it was the editor!

Annie: So was I! But instead, rando woman. The editor certainly looked shady.

Cut to Fisk’s place. Vanessa is watching the senator’s arrest on the TV while Fisk is shouting instructions into his cellphone. He looks piiiiiiiissed.

Vanessa tells Fisk that they need to leave ASAP, but Fisk says it’s too late. He grabs her and asks her to do something for him.

Outside Chez Fisk, cop cars and a big SWAT-like truck pull up to the building and rush into the building.

Back inside, Fisk is asking Vanessa if she understands what he’s told her and says there is one more thing. He pulls a huge diamond ring out of his pocket. As the FBI are breaking down the door and flooding his apartment and arresting him, he asks Vanessa to marry him. She accepts his proposal and tries to kiss him as the FBI pull Fisk away. As the feds are taking Fisk out of his apartment, he’s shouting to Vanessa that she’s everything to him. There is another media scrum outside Fisk’s building as the FBI are loading him into the van.

Back at Not!Nelson-Murdock, the gang is watching the news coverage of Fisk’s arrest, celebrating. Matt tells them this is what’s important, the three of them and knowing everyone is safe. They toast Elena, Ben and everyone Fisk has hurt.

I have an uneasy feeling because there is waaaaaay too much time left and this was all wrapped up too easily.

J: Same…. It’s probably too much to ask that the last 20 minutes or so are just the three of them playing cards and chatting happily.

Mari: We haven’t seen his new costume, guys! 

Annie: Police convoy. In the back of the van, Fisk is talking to the two FBI agents who are keeping an eye on him. The one agent tells him to shut up, but his partner is all ‘what could it hurt to let him talk?’. Fisk says he’s not a religious person, but he’s read some of the Bible out of curiosity. He tells a version of the good samaritan story, telling the agents that he always thought of himself as the good samaritan of that story. But he’s not:

Mari: Is this the first time we hear Fisk really confess to being the bad guy? It’s… refreshing after all the I LOVE MY CITY!

Annie: Meanwhile, on the street, the police convoy encounters two black trucks that have come to a stop, forcing the convoy to stop as well. The back doors of the trucks stop, and men in riot gear with big guns jump out and shoot at the police convoy, including the driver of the van carrying Fisk. They form a line and approach the van, taking down the cops and FBI agents, no sweat. (J: There it is.)

The two agents in the back of the van call for back up.

Back at not!Nelson-Murdock, they’re watching a breaking news piece that the convoy carrying Fisk is currently engaged in a firefight. Karen is mad they were so naive to think it would be this easy to deal with Fisk. The gang are getting ready to leave the office, and Matt puts Karen and Foggy in a cab. Matt tells Karen he needs to go back to his apartment and make some calls, but she is having none of it. Foggy’s all ‘wait here’ to Karen, and follows Matt to the other cab. Matt tells Foggy that although he hasn’t earned back Foggy’s trust, he has to trust him on this one. Matt gets into his cab.

Police convoy shoot out. The riot-geared men under Fisk’s employ are knocking at the door of the van. One of the FBI agents shouts that if they do anything else, he’s going to shoot Fisk. The other FBI agent instead shoots the first agent and tells Fisk they’re going to get him out of there.

Fisk casually strolls past all of the dead and/or bleeding out cops in the street to one of his trucks. He climbs in and tells his henchmen that if anyone tries to follow them, they’re to kill them. Hoooookay. Guess Fisk means business.

Cut to Superhero Dressing shop. Matt is picking up his suit. Before he grabs it and goes, Melvin asks him if Betsy will be safe from Fisk. Matt said he promised she would be, and he’s going to keep his promise.

Jessica: Ok segue, this still bothers me! Does Matt know anything about Betsy? Where she lives? What she even looks like? Seriously, if something happens to Betsy, I’m going to be pissed.

Thank you, carry on.

Annie: Daredevil is standing with the New York skyline in the background in his new suit. He’s using his super-hearing to listen to the police radios for updates about Fisk.

Fisk’s getaway truck pulls into his warehouse alongside a few other trucks. He gets out of one truck and climbs into a Summerville Department Store truck. That truck pulls out of the warehouse and the henchman radios that ‘the package is en route.’ Daredevil hears this and takes off.

The henchman then hands a phone or maybe it’s a radio? To Fisk. Vanessa is on the other end. Fisk tells her that if doesn’t make it in 2o minutes, she has to GTFO, no matter what. Fisk tells her if he misses their rendezvous, it’s not the end, and nothing will keep them apart. What a freaking creep.

The department store truck driver radios that there will be 15 minutes til the drop and gets a stick through the windscreen. In what seems like a major overreaction to me, the driver swerves and the truck tips over onto its side. (M: Don’t plan to test my reaction to a stick in my windshield, though.) Fisk staggers out of the back of the truck and Daredevil appears on the side of the truck’s box. He tells Fisk that he was right, not everyone deserves a happy ending.

Fisk looks up at DD and is all ‘You!’ but before they can continue their threat-banter, Fisk’s henchman starts shooting through the side of the truck, aiming at DD.

DD does fancy dancey footwork to avoid getting hit by the bullets and retrieves his weapons from the windscreen of the truck. He tosses his stick at the henchman and knocks him out. DD pauses to listen, then runs off after Fisk who is running away.

Daredevil corners Fisk at the deadend of an alley. Those dead ends are always so inconvenient.

Fisk hulks out, shouting that all he wanted to do was make something out of the city and DD took it all away from him. So now he’s gonna kill Daredevil.

Daredevil sheathes his weapon and tells Fisk to bring it. Fisk charges DD, who does this flip-fight move that lands Fisk on his back. And then they fight.

DD is landing quite a few punches and Fisk is getting pretty bloody in the face. But yet Fisk manages to get back on his feet and he and DD do the fight-dance again. This time Fisk seems to have the upper hand, which makes no sense to me, because he’s older than Daredevil and out of shape, has been in a car accident, and been punched in the head a lot, but okay, I’m not a doctor.

Daredevil gets knocked to the ground, but he jumps back up and goes back to punching Fisk in the head. They toss each other around and Fisk gets his hands on a metal pipe. He hits DD in the face, so DD pulls out his own sticks. And then they fight with sticks.

Fisk again somehow gets the upper hand on DD again, and he starts doing his psycho, rage-punching thing. He headbutts DD and lifts him over his head like a pro wrestler, and throws him on the ground. Fisk picks up DD’s stick and starts hitting Daredevil with it, while shouting about how this city doesn’t deserve a better tomorrow and deserves filth instead.

We get a weird little slow-mo bit during this, which I think is supposed to be telling us that Daredevil is using his powers to ‘see’ Fisk, but this fight scene has been going on for 6 years and I’m kind of over it.

Daredevil manages to get hold of Fisk’s arm and he’s all ‘this is my city, my family‘ and he gets his weapons from Fisk, gets back on his feet… and then they fight again.

Daredevil hits and kicks Fisk in the head a lot and I honestly don’t know how he’s not dead already. Fisk is on his knees and he shouts at DD asking him if he really thinks one man in a costume can change anything.

DD jumps up and punches Fisk right in the head, knocking him out.

Mari: I get that this was the big showdown they were building to, but with the prolonged fighting, the slow motion and the big pronouncements, all this is a little overwrought….

Annie: A police car comes driving into the alley, and Mahoney gets out of the car, shouting at DD to put his hands up.

Daredevil stands up and tells Mahoney he isn’t the bad guy. Mahoney is all ‘shit, it’s YOU’. DD is all ‘here’s Fisk for you, we cool?’ and Mahoney radios that he’s found Fisk, but doesn’t mention Daredevil.

Cut to the helicopter pad where Vanessa has been waiting for Fisk. A bodyguard/henchman dude approaches her and tells her something we don’t hear. Vanessa nods and pulls her engagement ring out of her pocket. She puts it on her finger and getting into the helicopter. The henchman gets in next to her and the helicopter takes off.

Back in Fight Club alley, Mahoney is handcuffing Fisk. Daredevil thanks him. Mahoney goes to ask DD what he should call him in his report, but sneaky DD does this awkward dash up the fire escape and runs away. I know it’s supposed to be cool and impressive, but the whole sequence seemed really awkward and it made me laugh.

The next morning, Karen is reading the headline in the Bulletin.

She decides that Daredevil is way better than the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen and Foggy and Matt do that superhero tropey thing where they make fun of the name and the suit. Foggy says the horns are too much. Haha, it’s funny and clever, because he knows he’s making fun of Matt and Matt’s superhero suit. GEDDIT?

Anyway. The gang is standing on the sidewalk as Foggy is reaffixing the Nelson and Murdock sign to their building. They joke and laugh and then Foggy says he’s gotta go help Marci find a new job. Matt tells Foggy to thank her for helping them bring down Fisk. Foggy reminds them that it will probably be a year until he stands trial. Way to rain on the parade.

Matt is quick to remind them that Fisk is in jail and it’s all thanks to them. Foggy heads off and Karen tells Matt they should get back to work. Matt stops Karen, telling her that there has been something different in her voice for a while now and he was hoping it would get better now that Fisk was in jail. Karen tells Matt that although Fisk was in jail, it doesn’t erase the people they’ve lost, the things they’ve been through or the things they’ve done to get there. Matt agrees that there are some decisions he wishes he could go back and change, but he can’t. And that all they can do is move forward. Together.

The dialogue is bad sometimes. I’m just going to say it because it has been bothering me. This is an example of how cliche and just generally bad it can be at times.

Matt holds his hand out to Karen and she takes it. Then the two of them head into Nelson and Murdock. Together.

Prison. Fisk is in his cell, dressed in white.

His signature scar is now there, thanks to Daredevil. Fisk sits down on his prison bed and stares at the wall.

High above the city. Daredevil is suited up, listening and watching over his city. He hears a scream, pulls his sticks out and rushes off. Freeze frame as he jumps down, ready for action.

Roll credits. The end.

Jessica: This episode feels kind of anti-climactic to me. Which is weird, because it was super high on drama and punching and shooting and very insistent musical scores. But as you mentioned Annie, the pacing isn’t great, and there have been a handful of episodes this season that just felt more impactful. I thought the last bit at the end between the three of them, and then just Matt and Karen, was a bit weak as well. But overall, I have to say I am enjoying the show. I wasn’t convinced about it at first, but it has grown on me. I am intrigued about Season 2.

Mari: I’ll agree that season one had some pacing issues as a whole, but also I’m invested in Matt, Foggy, Karen and of course Rosario Dawson. It’s got some good material here, some absolutely amazing choreography, and everything anyone who likes a dark hero could want. This episode in particular, I think, was all resolution. They didn’t leave enough loose ends in this final episode so that we were guessing. There was really only one way it could end. 

That said, I’m excited we have a proper superhero now and if they would only tell Karen, we’d be all set.

 

 

We’re taking a break from Daredevil to watch season 1 of Jessica Jones! See you all there!