Daredevil: Born Again Finally Feels Like Television (And That's Good News for Marvel)
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After four years of Marvel Studios programming on Disney+, Daredevil: Born Again represents a significant milestone by embracing what should have been obvious from the start: the episodic structure that defines television as a medium. While Marvel’s streaming offerings have consistently delivered high production values and compelling characters, most have struggled to escape the “six-hour movie” approach that has plagued it from the start. By adopting an episode-by-episode storytelling method with distinct conflicts and resolutions, Daredevil: Born Again demonstrates how Marvel can create engaging television that maximizes the medium’s strengths rather than fighting against it, which is great for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Videos by ComicBook.comMarvel’s Disney+ shows were meant to seamlessly integrate with the MCU’s theatrical releases while giving secondary characters room to develop. The experiment began promisingly with WandaVision in January 2021, which initially...