I've got to be honest, this episode of Daredevil really bored me. The show is still a marvel (see what I did there?), with its flashes of humor in a grim world, masterful cinematography, multifaceted characters. But I want to see those characters do stuff in their grim world, and look good doing it. Going on dates, though, isn't quite what I had in mind.
Yup, in this episode Matt (Charlie Cox) finally kisses Claire (Rosario Dawson); Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) gets a nice, uninterrupted by crazed Russians date with Vanessa (Aylet Zurer); Foggy (Elden Henson) and Karen (Deborah Ann Woll) say, "We're on a date." Admittedly, interesting things do happen. Matt gives his first in-depth description of his powers, reminding us that yes, this is a comic book show. We also get a nifty POV of how he "sees" the world, and it's clearer than you might expect, but it looks like everything is in flames. Fisk paints a picture of who he is, making him the most sympathetic villain in the MCU since Loki... before blowing up some buildings. Foggy and Karen nearly get blown up in one of those of those buildings.
The most interesting part of the episode was watching setting up his competitors, and then knocking them down. This isn't complex plotting. This is Game of Thrones plotting, where the politics and scheming are just difficult enough for the average guy to feel smart for tracking. That's not an insult, by the way, Shakespeare did the same thing.
I keep saying this, because I think it's true: the writers on Daredevil really seem to be milking the fact that people will watch the show over the course of two or three days. Packed together tightly, the times when the show grinds to a halt to really develop something aren't quite so obvious or memorable. But spread out over a couple of weeks, catching one episode at a time, I sometimes have trouble remembering why I keep coming back.
I will be back, though. "World on Fire," a slow and pondering episode, ends on a brilliant cliffhanger that can only end with awesome violence or inventive cleverness. And I can hardly wait to find out which.
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