Blame Marvel and sell your soul to the Devil

Do you know that feeling of frustration and being torn inside when you REALLY should be doing supermegaimportant thing due for yesterday, but eating dinner you think that one episode of series you were quite looking for (can Marvel still do something fresh? will Charlie Cox prove himself as a superhero type?) won't hurt and you couldn't be more wrong? Yeah, putting aside watching Daredevil for two days was a torture and if I've just messed up my future I will blame Marvel forever.

I love these glasses. And Charlie. And Matt. And Daredevil. And the show in general.

In recent era of renaissance of comics' adaptations it may seem like we had everything. Retro righteous heroes, genius billionaires, numerous mutants, a quarrel in family of gods, spaceships, dance-offs, epic superhero unions, a slow realisation of  gigantic project of connecting all recent production and creating a coherent universe (DC is trying to keep up, but for now they don't sound even half these impressive), prolific outbreak of tv series which so far failed to share the success of cinema blockbusters and I really can see why. And here comes Daredevil - at the first look we get a blind lawyer(!), who enormously developed his senses and decided to use all of his skills (including the educated lawyer part) to make his neighbourhood a better place and  soon appears that Hell's Kitchen is filled up with more shadows than Gotham, villain completely different than we normally observe (plus we get a look into other angle of his live aside from "doing evil stuff, so we know who's the bad one here"), number of various, good-written characters of differentiated personalities and nationalities (I simply have a weak spot for shows, which contain a dash of foreign languages), hero's agenda that can be watched without yawing, maybe thanks to splitting it into bits and slowly introducing viewers to the past events, an eye-pleasing but not farcical fighting style.

Props for shooting fight scenes in which beating looks dirty and wearing for both of the sides. The biggest advantage of this show for me is how natural the characters seem to be - for the first time I don't perceive comic-based personages as unrealistic. It's a merit of great dialogues and script in general.

Even hero sometimes needs help. When Murdock gets hurt very badly there's somebody to patch him up.

It turns out that while for 2h long screening light, funny and glamorous style works very well, tv series with continues episodes has to develop much deeper insight and consistent characters and adding some darkness without throwing humour out completely. This darker side aspect is probably why Arrow, Flash and Gotham prospected better than Marvel tv series. Well, at least until now, because Daredevil goes into darkness much further - we see scenes containing a high dose of brutality, sometimes so high it makes turn my gaze away from screen. The effect is toughen by the choice of scenery, a lot of action is going on in dark, nasty and narrow streets and corridors and you actually feel how rotten Hell's Kitchen is.

Did I mention how great are the relationships in this show?

I can say that this is what I was waiting for, what I expected from all these productions before and what I had to put on hold for over 40 hours.


Edit: My laptop objects to publish posts. The war is on.
         In the meantime Daredevil's season two has been announced. Yay!

         And if you missed, there's also a trailer of Ant-Man. After success of Daredevil and serious attack of laughter after watching the trailer I am waiting for this movie much more excited.