Cinepals - DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN 1x4 Reaction & Review! | Charlie Cox | Vincent D'Onofrio | Marvel | Disney Plus

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

The Devil of Hells Kitchen is back in this new revival of the beloved Netflix series, in Daredevil Born Again on Disney Plus. Our favorite blind lawyer Matt Murdock battles for justice in New York City, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk pursues political power, setting them on a collision course as their pasts resurface. This episode also sees the welcome return of another beloved character.  Daredevil: Born Again features a talented ensemble cast. Charlie Cox (The Theory of Everything, Stardust, King of Thieves) reprises his role as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, a blind lawyer leading a double life as a vigilante. Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, Men in Black, The Cell) returns as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, a powerful crime lord with political ambitions. Margarita Levieva (Adventureland, The Lincoln Lawyer, Inherit the Viper) joins the cast as Heather Glenn, a therapist and Murdock's new love interest. Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood, The Punisher, Escape Room) reprises her role as Karen Page, Murdock's close friend and former reporter. Elden Henson (The Mighty Ducks, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, The Butterfly Effect) returns as Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Murdock's best friend and law partner. Wilson Bethel (Hart of Dixie, How to Get Away with Murder, Inherent Vice) reprises his role as Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter/Bullseye, a psychopathic former FBI agent. Zabryna Guevara (The Guilt Trip, Gotham, The Get Down) portrays Sheila Rivera, while Nikki M. James (The Book of Mormon, BrainDead, Severance) plays Kirsten McDuffie, a former assistant district attorney. Genneya Walton (Project Mc², Extant, BlackAF) appears as BB Urich, a young journalist connected to Ben Urich. Arty Froushan (Carnival Row, Knightfall, Strike Back) takes on the role of Buck Cashman. Clark Johnson (The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street, S.W.A.T.) plays Cherry, a retired NYPD officer working with Murdock. Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark, Cherry, Ocean's 8) portrays Daniel Blake, Fisk's protégé. Ayelet Zurer (Angels & Demons, Man of Steel, Daredevil) returns as Vanessa Marianna-Fisk, Wilson's wife. Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead, The Punisher, Ford v Ferrari) reprises his role as Frank Castle/The Punisher, a vigilante with a lethal approach to justice. oin us on YouTube at https://www.YouTube.com/@Cinepals for the cutdown reaction or becoming a Patron at www.cinejump.com and get access to the uncut reaction for this movie as well as many other movies and shows! SOCIAL MEDIA ~CINEPALS~  YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals

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He seems lovely. Is that blood? They did mention earlier episodes that people are disappearing and no one's doing anything about it. Oh, my God. This guy is hard. horrifying well he seems like a cool person to hang out with oh god i mean that's definitely setting up an interesting potential new nemesis i suppose new villain for uh daredevil to take out so how do you feel about uh finally seeing daredevil's um you know his masks is that his his like secret room yeah no it feels

good. I think, you know, definitely they're showing us that Matt and Fisk are both hiding, you know, they're keeping certain aspects of themselves secret. Well, to be fair, Fisk didn't kill him. He didn't kill Adam. He's just got him there. Right.

That's an improvement. Wrong. Yeah, but. Definitely an improvement. Dude's not dead. We love seeing a man trying to change for the better. Yeah. One small step for man. And then Daredevil is slowly finding the hero again.

Right. He's training hard. I think the scene that we loved with the Punisher and Daredevil was like so incredible on so many different levels. But he was able to take one look at Matt and be like, I see what you're going through because I've been there and I'm still living that. And so it totally makes sense as to why Matt is still training and everything because he feels guilty. It's like, oh, maybe if I had just been training a little bit more, maybe if I'd had

been more on top of it, then I could have saved Foggy and this, that, and the other. And so it gives us a really great insight into what's actually going on in his mind because, yeah, he doesn't talk about it. As much as I was upset that they took Foggy out in the first episode, I'm like, okay, I'm definitely seeing how that is driving the story forward and like driving his motivations forward, you know? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'm still holding out that he might be Black Sky. No, he's not.

He's not. He's not coming back, Jabby Koeh. It's not happening, okay? You don't know. I'm pretty sure. Anything is possible. It's all connected. I'm like 99.9% sure. I'll leave a 0.1% for error. Maybe the guy in the white hood is foggy. You don't know. Anything's possible.

No. That's awful, though. But I do. love how this show kind of, you know, says things in passing and then, you know, a few episodes, no one's really talking about it or anything. And you just think, oh, it's just a normal big city New York thing. People do disappear all the time. Like, what's the big deal? And then it's like, oh, no, actually, we've got like a crazy nasty serial killer on the loose who, I don't know, he seems to be making artwork with people's blood. That's gross. Do you remember the vibe with Game of Thrones season one where you kind of forgot that you were watching a show that had

magic and dragons and stuff because you were getting lost in the minutiae of the politics with all these people and then it was like oh wait there's dragons and like all the stuff and like white walkers would show up every once in a blue moon like season one no but season one the dragons didn't come in until like right at the very end yeah exactly and so i'm curious about your take with that and mine on the approach here that that they've done with deri devil born again where they kind of took a lot of the superhero stuff out for the most part it's mostly you know courtroom drama and like i love it that stuff and slowly bringing us back to the thing that you kind of forget the show's doing which is like either that the show has which is

like superheroes yeah no i i really love it because it it's much more focused on like you said you know the courtroom drama and just like these people's lives these characters that we've come to know and love or at the very least to know and appreciate and so it's just kind of fascinating to see all of the things behind the scenes like I love the stuff with Fisk and Vanessa and their relationship and like how nuanced it all is and watching this couple kind of maybe try to reconcile I mean it's still not a hundred percent there yet but I feel like that is the direction definitely fisk really really wants to reconcile with her without a shadow of a doubt yeah and i think she's kind of like unsure because she is a different person than the one she was and and she feels

deeply betrayed and i thought that was a lovely moment when she shared like her history with her dad and her mom and so you get like a better understanding as to why she behaved the way she did you know because she didn't want to be like her mom and she didn't want to break down when the father left or so she didn't want to break down when Fisk left her but it's like did he have a choice really

like he was recovering he was in jail like the other thing that she hasn't said yet is what if you leave again you know and expressing a fear if you know you might leave again and maybe that informs some of her reluctance sure they haven't outright

stated that you know My thinking up until just a second ago was, you know, maybe she just feels like she doesn't need him anymore, you know? I think so. I mean, like, clearly when she was running the business by herself, she didn't need him. She was doing just fine. Yeah. And so, you know. Maybe she likes being alpha.

Yeah. And he recognizes that she's definitely leveled up. You know, he's like, oh, you've changed into something more. And that doesn't intimidate him, I feel. Well, going back to talking about Dara double. and whatnot and the way that the show's going. I forgot how the different superheroes are classified in Marvel, but

it... He's a street-level superhero. That's the brain. That's the brain. That's the thing I had in my brain was street-level is how Daredevil is classified, right? Like Jessica Jones and Blue Cage and all of them. Yeah. And so these are street-level superheroes, and so we're

dealing with street-level matters. Yeah. Like the guy who is getting more time than necessary just for stealing like... Yeah, no, that was... that was just you know like eye opening mind blowing because here we are totally on side with Matt right because we like him you know we live a certain life a certain lifestyle

we're not exposed to the lifestyle that this man in prison is exposed to and like the way the system has failed him throughout his entire life and so of course we go So, but isn't 10 days in jail better than the 35 days that you were originally going to be given? Like, what's the big deal? You're, you're going to be out within a week, you know, really. And we just don't realize all of the hardships that he has to go through. And then when he explained it, it's like, wow. You get some perspective.

Yeah, you really do. And you're just like, wow, I had no idea. I felt really shitty. Yeah. Yeah. I think that what was curious in my mind is where that was going, because it's been a minute since I've watched the entirety of Daredevil season one through three, right? And so I can't recall too many instances that are just sort of these like little things like

that where it's not really part of the greater Daredevil story. It's just a moment that we are focusing in on, you know? Yeah, I mean. Usually it feels like these small cases are somehow tied to the larger picture. Yeah. I was waiting for that to come up. Maybe it might. Maybe it has yet to.

I can't see that yet if that's the intention. I mean, it does seem to be complete and utter BS to go to that level to like try and charge this guy or whatever for stealing a few boxes of, I don't know, popcorn or whatever it was that he was stealing. You know, it's just like, why? Yeah. But it's, I mean, it happens all the time. and unfortunately he's just got like a long rap sheet and it's kind of like but is that really his fault because you know he's in a situation where he feels like he has to do that right it's a it's a it's a much bigger conversation than you know just the show sure but it's great

that they're kind of putting that in our heads I think right I'm just waiting to see if like that's just its own little thing as a moment to kind of educate the audience or if it's going to tie in somehow like it feels like it usually does it usually does yeah um where it's like okay now you're going to be part of this endeavor over here for some reason the last thing i want to talk about i want to circle back to the the i feel like the big highlight in this episode which is the encounter with daredevil which uh daredevil with punisher which confirmed that it wasn't punisher who did that i didn't ever think it was punisher no um i just thought it was like because all those guys have the skull tattoos and so i assume it was sort of like some kind of cop cult thing going on yeah

like maybe they were so inspired by his vigilanteism because he's he's very different from daredevil in the sense of he's like you did wrong yeah i will freaking kill you yeah yeah you know no holds barred and so perhaps they have taken that symbol and co-opted it and now it's turned into this thing of like you know cop justice like yeah i mean this happens all the time in real life yeah you know where a symbol gets taken and then it transforms into this other thing that was never intended for it so yeah because then you know it's just a a bunch of people who work in law enforcement and are supposed to be enforcing the law right but sometimes i would imagine maybe they feel like there's a certain loopholes in the system people get out blah blah blah

blah, and so they're like, the system doesn't work, so we can take this. Sure, I mean, the way I see it is it just feels like a bunch of characters informed by rage. It doesn't feel like characters in the pursuit of justice, it feels like people who are angry and are banding together like a gang. But like maybe they're angry, but they think that what they're doing is justice, when in fact it's not. Yeah. Yeah. But going back to Punisher, I just really like that scene a lot. because it feels like he has been going through some shit.

Like, that was a very lived-in situation with John Bernthal, you know? Like, it feels like he's been, I don't exactly remember what happened at the end of Punisher season two. Me neither. But I just remember he got the dude, you know, and it was on the merry-go-round. That's the only thing I can recall. And he had a buddy who was like a hacker, you know, in the basement with him, this tall kind of Russian-looking guy who wasn't Russian. I don't know what he was.

But, yeah, like, a vague recollection of what happened in Punisher. And so, anyway, John Prenthal's acting was just so strong. It's like, because, you know, having watched him many times, when he first came on the scene, I wasn't his biggest fan. I was, like, very on the fence about him. But then as I've watched him since Daredevil Season 2, in many things, I'm like, oh, okay, he's really grown on me. And it was fascinating to see him jump back into that character, but an aged, weathered, sort of version of that character yeah you know that's an interesting task and so it makes me wonder how how he went about that you know is it one of those things like where he it's almost like you know

some voiceover artists have just like a voice in their back pocket they can pull out any time and it's and they like Seth MacFarlane yeah yeah he's got an array of voices right and so it made me wonder if for him that was just like a character he knows how to summon out of his back pocket at any time and then he's just got to age him up and you know weather him you know I so yeah I would imagine imagine perhaps there's something like that or you know maybe he just had to like rewatch what he did and then be like okay yeah i remember i remember this now like it's all there it's all in your muscle memory right yeah and but yeah the the more interesting aspect is like what's he been going through you know here he is living he's the manager at this like decrepit building he's still got like all his guns and stuff like that you know he's still taking medication for uh you know, his PTSD or whatever it is that he's got, you know, it's just fascinating. And I really feel like the Punisher is one of the best roles that I've seen John Bernthal do. He's so fantastic.

Well, what was fascinating about watching that scene, like, I could watch it again, you know, just that moment alone. John Bernthal really dominated that scene. Yeah. That's hard to do when you're next to Charlie Cox. Yeah. I mean, he did such a, he just stole the scene completely. Yeah.

And it was, it was fascinating to watch him break Daredevil, break Matt Murdoch, who was probably on the teetering cusp of being broken anyway. It was just, it just took that person to push him over. Well, yeah, it was like, it was kind of like a tough love therapy session. Yeah. And he needed that, but I feel like he needs more of that because he wasn't fully like even right there, you know what I mean? Like, he's still holding back.

so much and that came out because Punisher knew like Frank Castle he knew exactly how to poke him where to poke him to make him break down and like when he punched him I saw I saw that coming because and I'm pretty sure like he saw that coming too he knew that he needed to do that and like he said it was like the most honest thing that he did because he's holding back all the time you know he he wants to and I felt that as well in that scene with the cop in the in the precinct or whatever when when he confronted him and then he was kind of like yeah next time you're gonna have to bring more guys I was like that's it that's what he wants he wants to fight yeah he he's just he's dying to but he's holding it back

because he's not supposed to because he said he wouldn't when all he wants to do is just like throw a few punches and hurt these bad guys who hurt his friend or like who he's just so angry yeah yeah uh it's just funny to me because like i've heard that john berthal's one of the nicest guys in your life but in that scene he embodies like absolute manliness and masculinity and pain yeah yeah and pain so i feel so much pain emanating from him yeah when i look at him i'm like this man is that is the life that is the life of a man manliness is pain you just swallow that shit down you keep it moving um no but like i just the way he he holds himself he just has such strength to him um i was like oh that's pretty

cool you know it's like he like just rushed out as well the the the axe and everything yeah yeah just everything about him i'm like damn dude all right cool that's a man yeah yeah oh my shit I'm like, I am completely removed from this and I'm feeling intimidated by the guy. Yeah. You know? Because he's also really great because he is another one of those guys that kind of is able to hold a sense of like rage and violence constantly bubbling underneath the surface. Right.

And so, you know, even though he's a really nice guy or like he might be on your side or whatever. But in a similar way that Wilson Fisk has that. It's like you feel like this man could explode on anyone. Hopefully not you in this situation. But you feel like he could just combust. Yeah, sure, absolutely. The difference between them, though, is that Wilson Fiske feels like a comic book character brought to life in a way that I can buy into.

Whereas the Punisher just feels like a. real dude. That's true. You know what I mean? Like I feel like I could see that guy in the street somewhere and I'd be like, you know what? I'm going to go this way. It's not worth it to go to Ralph's today. Right. Right. Anyway, I had fun. You guys. Hopefully you did too. Thanks so much for hanging. I'm Jabby Koeh. This is. Achara Kirk. Peace out.