DAREDEVIL Should Never Be Forgotten | Video Essay
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What made Daredevil such a fantastic success for Netflix? Taking an in-depth look at the successes of Daredevil and why it should never be associated with the negativity of its cancellation but instead the positivity of its wonderful three seasons
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Time Codes:
0:00 - Opening
1:40 - Why Was It Cancelled?
4:00 - Season 1
6:00 - Use of Colour
6:39 - Religion
7:13 - The Television Format
7:58 - Violence
9:31 - The Stakes
11:25 - Being A Superhero Show
12:29 - Conclusion
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@davidkartwright9003
2 жыл бұрын
Your video is beautifully scripted bruv, we need more content creators like you
Daredevil is my favourite show ever Charlie Cox should have won an Emmy for his performance at the end of season three
@aleksi1537
4 жыл бұрын
John Bernthal is an awesome actor too
@Josh_questinmark
3 жыл бұрын
Didn’t win an Emmy unfortunately. But he did win an award from the Association of Blind Americans or something like that, because his protrayal of a blind man was so damn good.
@gabriel_alemdoaquario
3 жыл бұрын
@Isaac Walker Some say Vincent was "overacting" as Kingpin, but I don't see that. It's actually his coldness that makes him terriying.
@BurgoYT
2 жыл бұрын
@@gabriel_alemdoaquario never heard anyone say that, don’t understand why they would either it was amazing!
@Brandon_4272
2 жыл бұрын
Not only the best show on TV, I think it's the greatest comic book adaptation ever made
The theme song always gave me goosebumps
What I love about Matt is that he isn't perfect. He stumbles. He falls. He lies and he breaks his rules when he needs to or he'll sacrifice himself for anything as seen when he gave up his own life to push someone out the way of a bus in the comics to save them. The Netflix show does this perfectly and they make it a massive part of his character
Daredevil isn't just my favorite superhero show Its not just my favorite superhero media It's my absolute favorite show of all time
Last Episode was one of the best things I’ve ever watched in my life
@jvhlil
3 жыл бұрын
@Mastodon1976 fax
@Kali-bs7oj
3 жыл бұрын
@Mastodon1976 the last 39 episodes were my favorite
@khalil42
2 жыл бұрын
@@Kali-bs7oj lmfaooo
My favourite sentences in this entire series: "God knows I want to but you don't get to destroy who I am, you will go back to prison where you will live the rest of your miserable life in a cage knowing you will never have vanessa, This city rejected you, It beat you, I BEAT YOU"
The fight choreography is something else on this show. You can see his fighting style is a mix of boxing, ufc, and just flailing his body around until he hits someone. It’s not unreasonably flashy or unrealistic because of the plot and context he is the son of a boxer and fights crime in the streets, so it’s reasonable to assume this is what it would look like. Not like Charlie’s Angels where every character is the ‘badass’ fighter character despite them having completely different skill sets and personalities.
@saltified
2 жыл бұрын
mma you mean, lmao
@maya-db3gv
2 жыл бұрын
its a lot of martial arts combined! it was confirmed by philip j silvera, the stunt coordinator for dd, that he included more than just boxing
Hey just so you know, Disney/Marvel wasn't responsible for the Marvel Netflix shows being cancelled. Netflix didn't continue with them because they had to pay Marvel a fee to use their characters, on top of it already being extremely expensive to film in New York. The shows just weren't popular enough to justify it. Netflix doesn't need Marvel shows anymore and they want to focus on their orginal content. Also Marvel actually, I could be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure Marvel actually paid for the production of the shows for the first Marvel/Netflix deal, everything leading up to and including the defenders crossover.
@willismakesmovies
4 жыл бұрын
i’ve done a bit of research and yeah i know it’s not as black and white as i made it out to be, netflix did want to drop the amount of episodes from 13 to 10 and weren’t happy with the season ordering, ill pin your comment so people can see it
@thebigal123
4 жыл бұрын
From what I heard daredevil was one of Netflix’s most popular and top rated shows ever on the streaming service
@jameszachary2959
4 жыл бұрын
Great feedback. It's hard to appreciate a commentary that uses extreme narratives such as "better than the MCU" because both are great in their own regards. MCU provides greater events, grander villains and special effects. However by nature the Netflix series, particularly Daredevil gave you the ability to dig deep into the character of Mike Murdock. And the actor knocked his betrayal out the park. It also allowed for time to develop chemistry amounst other characters. I feel the same way about Punisher but I can give or take the other shows. Kudos for not rehashing another origin story. I think the MCU did a good job with Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and Black Widow character development with the time given. Netflix Marvel series and MCU fight choreography was neck-and-neck. They both hit and miss at times but some of my favorite were the ones in Daredevil. Seriously badass! Hopefully we're at the point that Disney can legally crossover Daredevil and Punisher same actors into the MCU. Talk about serious fanservice!
@Seasonal-Shadow_4674
4 жыл бұрын
Mikey Stricklin Sadly I live in a huge DC community that hated this show and forgot about it claiming it wasn’t that good, the character is lame, and it’s stale and boring and Arrow is better
@theverywell-informedfanboy6068
3 жыл бұрын
@@willismakesmovies Netflix were the ones who wouldn't budge on episode counts.
I just got thru season three and HOLEEEEEIII Shiiiiiiit was I on a roller coaster. The tension nearly blew my heart out of my chest. It started out slowly but in hindsight it was just in service of the journey. Corruption at every turn, self doubt in every breath, lies in every shadow and bullseye 🎯 trying to end you with every projectile. It's brilliant because they took the time to tell it correctly.
As much as I love the show and I'm sad Daredevil was canceled, personally I really think it ended at the perfect time in retrospect. After rewatching it in full like 4 times since it ended, I feel that the three seasons we have served as a perfect 3 act story that concluded on a (mostly) definitive yet still open ended note and in a satisfying way
I completely agree with you. Daredevil is one of my favorite shows ever made, I love all of it I love the characters, the acting, the writing, the awesome action sequences and the costumes. Just everything to me about this show works for me. I really really hope some day it comes back for a 4th season it was an amazing show
@Seasonal-Shadow_4674
4 жыл бұрын
Alex P 123 Sadly I live in a huge DC community that hated this show and forgot about it claiming it wasn’t that good, the character is lame, and it’s stale and boring and Arrow is better
@thebigal123
4 жыл бұрын
Real_Slim_Shady well do you feel that arrow is stale and boring? Because I liked to think that Daredevil is better show and also as much as I love DC I can still say that daredevil is one my favorite shows ever produced and yea I’’ll say it, its a better written show then arrow
@Seasonal-Shadow_4674
4 жыл бұрын
Alex P 123 no not at all
@Ethan-vf2gm
3 жыл бұрын
Does the last season end in a cliff hanger or a to be continued
@gort3111
2 жыл бұрын
@@Ethan-vf2gm late reply but it ends with a pretty satisfying ending though it hints that bullseye will return
"THAT LIGHT, AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?.... THATS NOT HEAVEN..... THAT'S THE C TRAIN"
@superstarultra28
3 жыл бұрын
Fuck that movie.
@Facelessman98
3 жыл бұрын
@@superstarultra28 shows off daredevil better than the show tbh
@superstarultra28
3 жыл бұрын
@@Facelessman98 Are you high? The show's a masterpiece. The movie's a load of garbage.
@Facelessman98
3 жыл бұрын
@@superstarultra28 almost. The show is great. Don’t get me wrong, but at least the movie shows off daredevils abilities. Granted the shows budget probably doesn’t allow that, still...Look up images of daredevil on google. More often than not he’s shown hundreds of feet off the ground. Diving. Swinging. Moving around not unlike Spider-Man. The shows great but leaves one desiring more.
@Facelessman98
3 жыл бұрын
And don’t even compare costumes. At least the movie has the color right. Charlie Cox is excellent though.I guess I’m more critical towards the show because it comes so close to being a masterpiece. It’s too bad it was canceled because now the only hope is with Disney and who knows what we’ll get if anything.
I'm not afraid to say it's one of the best TV shows I've ever watched. To reiterate, of any genre, not just the superhero/crime thing.
@davischris
2 жыл бұрын
I honestly couldn't agree more with you It's a show that's so close to perfection in my eyes I love it
@ewanturnbull645
2 жыл бұрын
@@davischris sad part is: it has raised the bar so high, some of my old favourites don't stack up as well anymore, - especially in the fight scenes *cough dark knight trilogy*
So glad charlie has and will continue to come back as the character he played perfectly
I've binged the show 3 times, rarely do I ever do that. It's that good.
Is it okay to cry when watching daredevil?
@willismakesmovies
3 жыл бұрын
T0x1c firefly absolutely 👏
@sibil-khan621
3 жыл бұрын
@@willismakesmovies thanks i can cry peacfully
I love how Matt and fisk are two sides of the same coin but feel so different and fleshed out. The little girl scene and Matt n foggy were so powerful and how you edited them together helped so much showing that
@Seasonal-Shadow_4674
4 жыл бұрын
Chris Davis I don’t because I don’t want it to justify Fisk’s actions. I mean I’m the end of the first episode he had a innocent child kidnapped from his own dad
@mrleg4461
3 жыл бұрын
those were the Russians
@davischris
3 жыл бұрын
@@Seasonal-Shadow_4674 i wouldn't say I wanna sympathise with a mad man it's more I wanna see why he's justifying it himself and why he's doing it because in the comics kingpin always sees himself as the good man and he does in the show too so to see why he thinks that as well as why Matt thinks that is great and it fleshed out the characters to make them opposites of the same ideas
@Seasonal-Shadow_4674
3 жыл бұрын
@@davischris hmmm
@Seasonal-Shadow_4674
3 жыл бұрын
@@davischris but isn’t a one idea clearly better than the other? If not, why root for Daredevil?
I never get tired of rewatching Netflix's Daredevil.
Daredevil is the best thing to ever come from the MCU change my mind.
Beautiful essay. I agree with you in every detail. Matt gets the crap beat out of him all the time--he is easy to identify with, as superheroes go. I've never seen anything like the hallway fight, and don't think I ever will again.
@Seasonal-Shadow_4674
4 жыл бұрын
NoizyInSeattle Sadly I live in a huge DC community that hated this show and forgot about it claiming it wasn’t that good, the character is lame, and it’s stale and boring and Arrow is better
@NoizyInSeattle
4 жыл бұрын
@@Seasonal-Shadow_4674 I've only watch a few episodes of Arrow. I am not someone to be Marvel vs DC. I grew up reading Superman and Batman. I never read Daredevil comics or saw the movie. A blind crime fighter seemed like a Dumb idea. I was drawn in by the...intimacy of the TV show and how Murdock was very human and vulnerable. And I have never seen anything like that hallway fight scene.
High quality, and a lot of effort put into this video
All I want for the MCU Daredevil is to have the same origin as the Netflix Daredevil. I also want Charlie Cox to plah him. Just bring Daredevil in but don't change anything about him.
@Kali-bs7oj
3 жыл бұрын
Charlie Cox Daredevil is in the MCU
@rohanbesra4831
2 жыл бұрын
Boy do I have news for you !
@rohanbesra4831
2 жыл бұрын
Boy do I have news for you !
1:05 Thank you! I have been saying that forever. It seems like people just like to complain about something they hate as oppose to talking about what they like. And I agree, Daredevil and the rest of the Netflix/Marvel Defenderverse shows shouldn't be forgotten.
@thehobbyist7275
3 жыл бұрын
Well, imo I think Iron Fist is the exception. Finn Jones didn't fit the character if you ask me
Hopefully whoever does the new show handles the characters well. I think there’s lots of potential
One of the best shows i have seen in general the climax to this easily beats the ending of Breaking bad just for the intensity and climatic finale.
Son of a gun you were right, your faith was rewarded. MCU Daredevil is a real thing now and lets just hope that the movie or show they decide to do with him is just as good as Season 3
"Nothing could bring the man without fears back on the screen." You sure about that buddy? 😉
Hands down, the greatest series ever made. The care & quality in making this is nothing short of a masterpiece in storytelling.
Best Superhero show ever. I watched daredevil and I love it.❤ #savedaredevil
I completely agree with this video it was a amazing show that wasn't afraid to take the viewers threw the darkness and as that it's not all about happiness it was a amazing show that deserved better I love the show and it will never be forgotten in my heart
@willismakesmovies
4 жыл бұрын
Ronin gaming completely agree
Love the editing and getting the clippage in there to see some excellent content with great points
For the ammount of effort and heart you put into this you deserve more views on this this needs to be out there
I'm saddened at the cancelation of Daredevil...but man ending a show on the tone season 3 episode 13 had is fucking beautiful none the less.
thank God he's a really good lawyer
Charlie Cox’s Daredevil is going to be in Spider-Man 3 and She-Hulk!
@FULANODETAL
3 жыл бұрын
BUT WHAT DAredevil will be ,,the 2014 serious ,,or the 2003 version with evansense...
@arc4859
3 жыл бұрын
@@FULANODETAL The good one
@FULANODETAL
3 жыл бұрын
@@arc4859 the last 3 mcu movies were disapoinments...im fear kevin feige will delete the serious tone and remplace it with crackin jokes and an overdose of cgi
@arc4859
3 жыл бұрын
@@FULANODETAL I really enjoyed the last 2 marvel movies and thought they were some of the best (captain marvel wasn’t really my cup of tea), but I agree that I’m a bit worried about the tone of Daredevil now that Feige is in control. If I were to wager a guess, it’d be darker than every other MCU movie, but still a bit lighter than his own show
@FULANODETAL
3 жыл бұрын
@@arc4859 last movie of spiderman could be solved in 15 min by daredevil...(ey msterio you lie,,and laso you are not nick fury..)
It never will be Marvel's Netflix Daredevil is the best Superhero Tv show ever made and the best thing Marvel has ever done
Daredevil is saved! Charlie Cox will reprise his role as Daredevil in MCU!
Amazing video and great comeback to the video essays
Very well done. Video definitely deserves more views.
I can never forget this show. it's too damn good
Still rewatching this
You can dam well be sure I'll never forget this show.
Daredevil embodies the essence of Wabi Sabi. Perfection in imperfection.
Loved this, thank you.
Daredevil and punisher are godly especially season 2 of daredevil
@jakegriff2908
3 жыл бұрын
I prefer season 3
This is great bro 🙏🏻👏🏻🔥
awesome job man!
It wasn't a miracle, Matt got his powers because he saved an old man. He have his powers because he did what was right in the first place.
Imagine If Moon Knight was a Netflix series it would've been much better
@atiksafari8582
Жыл бұрын
Agreed
Damn how do you only have 300 subs?? Hope you still make that video about season 3
The best TV show I've ever seen!!! It's my favourite!!!
Always a pleasure to rewatch
The show does such a good job at building characters that anybody would probably say Wilson Fisk is their favorite MARVEL villian in terms of film/TV. It's unbelievable that this show understood and build the character of Punisher better than the Punisher show itself. It ending with season 3 is actually fortunate in my opinion. Because except for that adamantium Bullseye thing it ended on a very good point and nearly every storyline is finished. Maybe it would have been able to give more but even this is more than enough.
Amazing intro
Such a good video! I expected you to have thousands of subs, but then I see that we have the same amount! Criminally underrated
@willismakesmovies
3 жыл бұрын
ayy we do ahaha thank you so much for the kind words keep up the great work dude :)
@khemistree
3 жыл бұрын
@@willismakesmovies you too :)
@khemistree
3 жыл бұрын
@@willismakesmovies yoooo you hit 200 subs congrats my man!
@willismakesmovies
3 жыл бұрын
@@khemistree thank you so much, i’m going to address that in my next essay but honestly i’m blown away 😄
@khemistree
3 жыл бұрын
@@willismakesmovies honestly, you deserve it so much!!
Daredevil is back baby!!!
He's back 😍
I’ve always thought the same thing about those who do nothing but harbor hate for bad franchises. They have their place though to combat the crap so we get shows like Daredevil.
The sonar be wilding
as a kid i used to be scared of the theme song
Wow, i love the video
I agree with everything you said. I love this channel.
@willismakesmovies
3 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for the kind words :D
@TerminatorT--oj8uv
3 жыл бұрын
@@willismakesmovies No, the thanks are mine, I love Daredevil, daredevil is my favorite comic book character of all time. And the words you said ahh, they made me cry from happiness, thank you for this video, thank you for immortalizing this show.
@willismakesmovies
3 жыл бұрын
@@TerminatorT--oj8uv let’s hope we get more daredevil in spiderman 3, this wonderful community may have actually done it :D
Loved that mvp is iron fist *shrek* joke 😂
Daredevil is back
So happy that daredevil is coming back to the MCU in spider man 3
This is just the best superhero related content, film or tv shows.
12:53 Man, that hit hard
With Far From Home coming closer, I can't help but think and wish that Matt or Foggy will come in to defend Peter. When I was little I saw an episode of the old animated Spiderman show (can't remember which one exactly) where Daredevil teams up with Spiderman to fight Kingpin. Ever since Daredevil started I have wanted to see them team up in live action. This is easily the best Netflix original show and the best Marvel show, nothing else except maybe the Punisher comes close.
What was the music at the end? The music used for the conclusion part
@willismakesmovies
3 жыл бұрын
it’s snowfall by idealism :]
@prolificpoultry4899
3 жыл бұрын
@@willismakesmovies Thank you tons! :D
I hope it's the same creative team, if this show returns
soooooooo true !!! marvel's daredevil was a masterpiece and matt is a real insiration to me ! we don't deserve dardevil (but your video deserve more ) plz everybody don't forgot matt and save the light side of marvel XD
Hoping for a Daredevil appearance in future Marvel productions
By the looks of it Charlie cox and Vincent d'onofrio is coming back as daredevil and kingpin
I believe I read this somewhere, could be wrong, but Marvel cancelled all the other netflix shows EXCEPT Daredevil, it was netflix who pulled the plug on it.
At least we might get him in Spider-Man 3
Makes since he's the best because he's the only one who wears his superhero outfit from the comics
A few days ago, Kevin Feige brought Daredevil into the MCU, and although the movie might not be as good, excuse me, won’t be as good as the series, personally I have wanted Daredevil to be in the MCU since I started watching this show
Awesome show. Marvel should bring it back
The shade on Iron Fist lmao I agree it was nothing compared to Daredevil to but it was still entertaining somehow 😭
They never should have made any other defender shows. Daredevil is a masterpiece and all the other shows suck.
daredevil is amazing but it’s probably for the best it got cancelled because season 3 was so good and it was a good place to end on
I don't think it's a coincidence that kingpin is a major villain to two of my favourite marvel heroes spider-man and Daredevil
#meetoo I gotta rewatch the show now!
Dude this video is so great it shouldn't get canceled but all things come to an end now we have to watch the super girl with stupid visual effect
@sibil-khan621
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah or we need to watch a another dumbass green lawyer =she hulk😑😑
@Red_Spidey
3 жыл бұрын
@@sibil-khan621 yeah
Gonna disagree with one of your earlier points. WandaVision and Loki especially were great, and FatWS and Hawkeye were both good. I do have the benefit of hindsight, knowing that *SPOILERS* both Cox's Daredevil and D'Onofrio's Kingpin are officially in the MCU. That being said, Daredevil is absolutely amazing, and so far none of the Disney+ series have reached its heights. But you're allowed to enjoy multiple properties at the same time.
Daredevil was a masterpiece. Also people can be negative like e fap it reacts to things and criticizes them. It is their job they can’t always be positive they wouldn’t be as successful
In a few years , 9 months we might be getting it in spider man 3
@thehobbyist7275
3 жыл бұрын
I pray to God that it's true. Charlie Cox is always my Daredevil
I love this show. I don't like Karen Page much because she did some bad things and didn't face any consequences, plus her character was a little contradictory. Everything else was amazing, though. As an Orthodox I liked the fact that Matt Murdock is Catholic and it was treated with respect and the things they said were actually what we believe in. I loved it so much.
🙏
With the No Way Home just months away, who knows? There's some rumors Matt will return. Hope Disney will not screw that up tho... if the rumors are true
Their back! He'll yea their back they better get the same writers and directors.
Efap are good though.
My 4th favorite mcu show.
@willismakesmovies
3 жыл бұрын
i’m interested what’s your top three shows?
@disneyerapowerrangers2923
3 жыл бұрын
@@willismakesmovies agents of shield,cloak-and-dagger, and Jessica jones.
@hayleydog9543
3 жыл бұрын
@@disneyerapowerrangers2923 wow a hot take I thought Jessica season one was very good but I didn’t like the other two seasons. I though agents of shield ranged from good to mediocre. I have not seen cloak and dagger
I agree with most your points but it's hard to appreciate a commentary that uses language such as "better than the MCU" because both are great in their own regards. MCU provides greater events, grander villains and great special effects. However by nature the Netflix series, particularly Daredevil gave you the time to dig deep into the character of Mike Murdock. And the actor knocked his betrayal out the park. It also allowed for time to appreciate the chemistry between characters. I feel the same way about Punisher but I can give or take the other shows. Kudos for not rehashing another origin story. I think the MCU did a good job with Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and Black Widow character development considering the time given. Netflix Marvel series and MCU fight choreography was neck-and-neck. They both hit and miss at times but some of my favorite were the ones in Daredevil. Seriously badass! Hopefully we're at the point that Disney can legally crossover Daredevil and Punisher (same actors) into the MCU. Talk about serious fanservice! Btw, give the Disney+/MCU flicks a chance we might be pleasantly surprised. One will hope. But let's all be cautious about Disney saving Daredevil lest we end up with an underwhelming conclusion like that of Clone Wars season 7.
Boy do I have (alleged) good news for you!
well rumors about charlie cox in mcu spiderman 3,are great and terryfing at the same time... last 3 mcu movies were disapoinmets with dumb jokes every 2 minutes and plot holes with the size of the blackhole of interstellar and with tons of pointless cgi s the fear is kevin feige turns this daredevil and pg 13 it and remplaced with the 2003 version with craking jokes about being blind,and"smealling beauty"
you sound like kingpin
@theflashgordon193
3 жыл бұрын
so he will make this city a better place ?
You knowledge of TV between Star Trek 66 and Daredevil is clearly quite limited. Buffy and Angel had gritty and cinematic fights often. My brother when we were watching season 2 repeatedly expressed how they fights were not "realistic" how in realize everyone isn't a Ninja like they are in movies.
Sadly I live in a huge DC community that hated this show and forgot about it claiming it wasn’t that good, the character is lame, and it’s stale and boring and Arrow is better
@manpreetlakhanpal9720
4 жыл бұрын
I am a DC guy too, and I put Daredevil at the same pedestal as The Dark Knight.
@Seasonal-Shadow_4674
4 жыл бұрын
Manpreet lakhanpal well here’s the thing. People in my community watched Daredevil and said it was too boring, slow, stale, his suit is pathetic, and they didn’t like it. Meanwhile they all constantly brag and rave about Flash and Arrow like it’s the best. If HiTop Film’s DD Video Essay Came Out at the time, I would’ve shoved it in their faces. Also one horseshit criticism I heard was when I was in a group of people; this one person complained that marvel movies are too lighthearted and low stakes and there aren’t any risks and nobody dies and compares them to The Dark Knight and said it had “Batman beating the shit out of the joker and people dieing left and right” and when these group of people were talking about DC shows like Flash and Arrow, this prick said he “tried watching” Daredevil and said it wasn’t that good
@manpreetlakhanpal9720
4 жыл бұрын
@@Seasonal-Shadow_4674 u know they might just be messing with you lol.