House of R - ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 Midseason Awards

Episode Date: April 16, 2026

Mal and Jo discuss the first half of ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2! They talk about all of the characters and storylines that are working for them and the ones that aren’t! Plus, they hand out some midseason awards!(00:00) Intro(04:55) Opening Snapshot(30:25) Midseason Awards Explore the exclusive collection at Target.com Hosts: Joanna Robinson and Mallory RubinProducers: Carlos Chiriboga and Scott LeeStudio Production: Jacob CornettSocial: Jomi AdeniranAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greetings. And welcome to House of Ar. A Ringerverse podcast. That's right. On the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Mallory Rubin. Joining me today, she knows that nothing is certain. Where the mind meets the soul, it's Vanessa. Joanna Robinson.

Am I your Vanessa? You are. You're the great love of my life and I would be shattered and lost without you. You would just crumple like an unbaked flon if I were not around. Exactly. And if you wanted pineapple juice, I would get it for you, whether or not it made your lips tingle. Can I just say? Pineapple juice is so good. Divine, apparently.

It's canon. Even if it made my lips tingle. You'd want it anyway. I'd want it anyway. If it makes Vanessa's throat clothes or her lips blow up the way that like a mango peel makes my lips explode, then maybe not. But a mere tingle. Sounds kind of nice. for pineapple juice?

Who doesn't like a little tingle? Added bonus. Speaking of tingles. From the repeated mentions of Vanessa, we are here for a daredevil born again. Season two, mid-season check-in.

We are going to hand out some awards, go through some superlatives because we're five episodes somehow into this season of television. The last couple of things have picked up. There's a lot to celebrate. She can fix him.

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We'll have to go back and check the tape. That would be acceptable for sure. Okay, spoiler warning. Midseason mark of Daredevil Born Again. So if it's happened in today we're going to focus in our awards on episodes 2, 3, 4. and five. That's what's eligible for selection. I think, I suspect, we will be very heavy on episodes four and five, is the prediction, but anything from the season to date could in theory come up. Anything from season one could in theory come up. If it happened in Netflix's,

daredevil, it could in theory come up. If it's ever happened in Marvel, it could in theory come up. But we will be talking in some detail about episodes two through five. We are talking about shoot the moon, the scales and the sword, gloves off, and the grand. design. Only a few episodes left of season two. I've born again. It's going quickly. Scalalal Disorder is a really good episode title. That wasn't like my favorite episode of season, obviously, but like it's an incredible episode title. It really is. Quality stuff. Okay, we are going to do a little quick opening snapshot on some news in the Marvelverse, and then we are going to get to our mid-season awards. But first, the opening snapshot.

What's cooking? Listen, as we're recording, we are in cinema con territory, which means the best and the brightest are gathered in Vegas to get some sneak peek at what's coming up. Marvel doesn't have their full-blown presentation until tonight. So we're recording this Thursday morning. They will be presenting this evening. There might be, rumor has that there might be an Avengers Doomsday trailer that they dropped there or at least some prolonged footage. So that is interesting.

Just something to keep an eye on. We obviously don't have any information exactly about that. But I thought it would be a good moment to sort of check in on the slate. It's been a minute since we checked it on the slate, right? So just to recap what we have upcoming. Yes. May 12th, Punisher One Last Kill. Yeah.

Right. Recent trailer drop. Uh-huh. Really good. For one last kill. A lot of PTSD seems like Frank is forever grappling with. July 31st, Spider-Man brand new day. Just some wonderful new posters recently released.

Sony had their presentation at CinemaCon. So some footage dropped there at CinemaCon from that film. Did the poster with the just... reflection of Zendaya in the Spider-Man eye mask, do anything to influence your running theory clock of like how much Zendaya will actually be in that movie? No, because do you remember the first Dune movie where Zendaya was heavily featured in every single trailer only to be barely in the movie? If you got Zendaya in your movie, you're going to use it on the promo material, you know

what I mean? All right. And then sometimes in the fall, allegedly, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man season two, the animated show. December 18th, Avengers Dooms Day. They put that clock up on the internet, and now they can't change it. They are not moving. They have clarified that they are not.

There was a rumor that they were moving. They're like, we are not moving. It is done. So same day as Doom Part 3, Avengers Dooms Day. Sometime in the fall slash winter vision quest is coming. So that's exciting. Yeah. There was some recent news about Joe Locke, who plays Wiccan, of course, that he signed.

I mean, I don't think this is really nice. news. He signed a multi-movie deal with Marvel. So, like, will they be using Wiccan in a number of movies? Maybe. But this is just sort of like standard boilerplate at this point for Marvel. It's just sort of like you get cast in a Marvel project. They lock you down before your fee can go up, et cetera. And then, of course, December 17th, 2027, Avenger's Secret Wars. And that's all of the confirmed, like, in the near future dates that we have. And that's bananas. Yeah. Banana milkshapes. Yeah, banana milkshakes. Once we get the Spidey movie and confirm the widely held theory,

and I guess at this point, just expectation that Sadie Sink is playing Gene Gray, then we can start announcing X-Men stuff. Well, they would announce an X-Men movie anyway. But anyway, on the in-production, Black Panther 3, which is allegedly coming out 2028, Wonder Man Season 2 was announced, obviously, X-Men question mark. We don't know when or what, but probably starring Sadie Sink. Did you see the Peter Claffey rumor? That's exciting.

I actually... You don't like it? I don't want him for that. Why? I don't... So the rumor is that they're looking at him for a beast. I don't know that I feel like... Peter Claffey is actually an incredibly intelligent man,

but I don't know that he's giving like... Yeah, scientist. Scientist. I like it. Let's see the range. Let's see the range. Also, I don't know that I think bouncing between a throne show and a Marvel show is sort of like... I understand.

He's like, I want to get my bag while I like... can. But I don't know. I just kind of, I don't think that he should lock himself into a franchise when he's already holding down a franchise on TV. Just for the longevity of career, I feel like he should do some weird other stuff before he locks himself into something like that. Do you know what I mean? Probably tough to pass on X-Men if it's offered. Perhaps. The dump truck of money. Shang-she, allegedly, there will be another Shang-she, Blade, who the F knows, and Armor Wars, who knows? So that's sort of the nebulously on the horizon. information.

Right. Sony wise, May 25th, Spider-Noire. Can't wait. Something we are bizarrely excited for. Will you be watching every episode in both black and white and color? Will you consume it both ways? No, but I will spend half of the episode dressed in black and white, and then I will do a costume change and watch the other half while dressed in color.

Great. Perfect. And then June 4th, 2027, Spider-Man Beyond the Spider-Verse. And once again, since Sony had their presentation at Cinemicon, some images came out. What did you make of the Beyond the Spider-Spider? reverse glimpses that we saw. I mean, it's thrilling. It's one of the movies and franchises that is best equipped because of its utterly original and fully realized visual palette to just give you that feeling of what you've missed with one glimpse. Like, you just need to see one

frame, one image. Obviously, the characters that we're seeing together, but just something about the pop of color and the shapes and the geometry, right? It's like, it gives you that little skip in your stomach and your heart. So I can't wait for the third film in the... the Spider-Verse franchise and love those movies. Everybody in the Ringervor-Vos family loves those movies. The group chat was buzz in. We're hyped. Right. Um, what year did the last one come out? 24? Is that right? 23. Was it really 23? Across Spider-VerS is 23. So, four years. What year is it now? 26. 26. Has it been that long? Yeah. Sheesh. According to the Google that I just did. So, uh, it's been a minute. That's wild. Last one at least, we do. We do. We do. We just, we

just wanted to mention. So Disney did a company-wide, pretty aggressive layoff, I think, over a thousand jobs. They cut. And Marvel was hit pretty hard. Marvel, like, a number of editors at Marvel Comics, since Marvel Comics are now under the auspices of Disney, like, so Marvel Comics got hit by this. But Marvel Studios, they gutted the visual development department, the Vizdev department, which is, like, really sad because it was a very... unique element of the Marvel movie making process, if you don't know what the visual development department was. It was this team of art, wonderful artists who would come up with the look and design and concept of the Marvel movies. There have been back and forth in the end of like,

are they being replaced by AI? I do not think it has anything to do with AI. I think it just has to do with, I mean, it might slightly impact it, but I think it has more to do with the fact that they're dramatically reducing the Marvel slate. You know, Marvel is no longer printing money like they used to, though perhaps with Avengers Doomsday they will. Early reports are that it is quite good, et cetera, et cetera. So this is like a luxury of the Marvel Studios system was the visual development department where they had these artists who could come and like cook up ideas of costumes in advance

and mashups between characters in advance and stuff like that. And if you ever, you know, looked at a Marvel. production book, like making of a movie, they would just have these incredible pieces of artwork in there. So it's like a really sad moment for Marvel Studios. They're still having, they're going to have a skeleton crew in the Viz Dev department. They're still going to use contractors, but they're not like no longer this sort of robust full-time artistic creative department inside of the studio, which is just like a, they've been there since, you know, some of those people have been there since Iron Man. And that's just like a real devastating development, I think, for the studio.

It's got quite sad and like obviously the visual aspects of, you know, all films. I mean, film is a visual medium, but comic book movies and comic book storytelling, it's as inextricable of a strand of DNA as any of the other things that draw people to these manifestations and renderings bringing to life, the characters, the relationships, the worlds that we care about so deeply and are attached to so deeply. and to simultaneously forge this connected, united experience across phases and sagas and time and inside of that, introduce in tandem with what is this character's franchise or what genre are we playing and where are we in time, where are we in the multiverse, specificity to be able to achieve that balance. That was one of the hallmarks of what made the Infinity saga so undeniable. So for so many reasons, that was so centered in the Marvel machine. And for that to be diminished is very upsetting and also obviously concerning in terms of the quality of what we'll be able to get. Well, I think, you know, it might be indicative of with, I don't know, the ongoing question of the Multiverse saga, what is it?

Is it concluding? Is it expanding? You know, will the X-Men movies? is the point after Doomsday and Secret Wars to create an interconnected universe that is much less connected and a visual style that is sort of much more disparate. Is the tightly woven tapestry of the Infinity Saga not something that they can return to, want to return to, etc. So will that cohesive visual style be less important?

And there's something potentially exciting about that because when you think about, I mean, like, are we ever going to get Blade? I don't know. But, like, some of the various ideas that we've heard about Blade over the years all sound like we could get, like, a really cool, distinctively different-looking film. Yeah, for sure. So there's an excitement in that. You know, in talking about, like, Spider-Noir, something like that, or Spider-Verse.

Like, how creative and inventive can we get with the visual style of Marvel if we're not trying to make everything look quite as cohesive? There's opportunity there. No, no question. Yeah. Absolutely. That's all I have to say about, you know, I just want to pour one out for the Vizdev department because they were just like a very cool, unusual element inside of the movie making machine.

So, yeah. We'll see if we get more news at a cinema con. Maybe we'll talk about a doomsday trailer in a couple days if we get one. I don't think we'll get to see it if they show it in Vegas. So we'll only get descriptions of it, which is. Then they'll release it later on the internet. Though I don't know. If you've got a countdown clock running on your YouTube,

channel in perpetuity. You got to put stuff up. I feel like they're going to hit it for Comic-Con. I mean, that's in months. It's July. That's in months. I still think they blew it.

They should have done one a week, you know? You give us four in a row. One a week. Why not? One for every chair that they lined up in the cast. They have enough characters in the movie to have done it. No question. Okay.

Daredevil. What are your overall thoughts at the mid-season point? We last talked about this after the premiere. How have you found this season in the subsequent weeks. So I thought episodes two and three were fine. Yeah. But I thought four and five were really good. I don't think it's just because I really like Bullseye as a character. Yeah. So shout out to Our Guy Arjuna who watched the screeners. We did not watch, you know, in advance. But Arjuna did when we got all the screeners from Marvel. And he was like,

Joanna, it's really a Bullseye season. And I like didn't dare to dream to believe him. But I should have, I should have listened. He never leads us astray. But he knows the power of that sentence. Over me. So I think episodes of four and five have been really good. And just the fact that we can watch this season, and I don't feel quite as lost as I do. Thinking about the fact that it'll be like four years between Spider-Verse movies,

but we're getting a new Daredevil season every March. They've announced that season three is coming back next March. So this is, if you want to call it the pit approach to storytelling, you can, or it's just how TV used to be made. Yeah. But it's just sort of like if we get a new Daredevil season every year, there's extreme value in that for me in terms of feeling like I am in the story in an ongoing way, which is what television is supposed to be. Yes. And this is going to be the first live action Marvel series to get a third season, which is wild. Insane to contemplate.

But that's where we are with Marvel television. So, you know, I'm really like, it's interesting. I have a quote from Wilson Bethel actually talking, who plays decks, talking to Brandon Davis on his podcast. And he was talking about sort of season one versus season two. I just think this is a marked improvement over season one. And he said, quote, my only frustration, I don't think I'm setting the world on fire with this comment. But I think I have so much respect for what the show is and has been. And I think the fans are deeply invested, have so much respect for the show, hold it in such high standard.

It was frustrating for me a little bit that we had to settle it all and coming back with that first season. I wanted the quality of this season, season two, born again. That's what I wanted for the first season. People have been waiting six, seven years. How different does it hit if out of the gate you get a fucking banger season of TV? And we had some good moments, but it was not that fucking level of, oh shit, daredevil's back. But whatever, man, we made it. You know, so he's like, here we are in season two of born again and we're really sort of cooking.

So I agree. I think, you know, I don't think season two is matter. matching the heights of the Netflix seasons, but it is just feels like more competent, comprehensive TV storytelling, which like, to the credit of the people running the show, they had to sort of like mish-mash two concepts and two approaches together to get season one. So like season two, not the best television I've ever seen, but is at least has the clarity of like one person, you know, one team's vision of the story that they want to tell. And that's really exciting to me. Yeah, I feel very similarly.

I, you know, we potted about episode one. I was not hugely enthusiastic about episodes two and three, so that was worrying. Yeah. But I think that, I thought four and five were, like, fantastic, easily my favorite episodes of the series so far. And I thought that both of them were really good. I thought that five was, five is the first one. Four had moments in it like this and stretches, most of, most of which involved your guy.

Five was the first one, you know, for reasons we'll get into here, that gave me that old feeling again. Like in a really doing Netflix dare no. Yeah, but it's like it gets back to what we talked about throughout season one where it's like there's wisdom and power and reinvention. But when you, in the process of forcefully seeking reinvention, abandon the thing that was special about what you made in the first place, that's like not always wise, right? And I think that that was obviously like a little bit of an identity crisis in season one.

And I don't know, it's just like seeing foggy back. spoilers? I mean, we already gave the spoiler warning. You received your spoiler warning at the top. It was really great and like really moving and the things that were the best bullseye. Who Matt is with Fawkes. Yes, exactly. Who Matt is with bullseye? Like those dark mirrors and the conversations that they have, Matt being back in church in the last couple episodes. Like we were talking so much about that in season one, not just like, okay, we're missing certain actual specific, familiar

settings and character beats, but like a core aspect of who this person is and how he navigates his own and interrogates his own morality. So like that's present here in a way that just it returns the show to its sense of self. Right. And this idea of born again like this is a new daredevil. Like he's he's got a different approach or a different moral code or, you know, a different overall mental health status or whatever, or a different costume. But it's like something that's interesting about this season is the way in which like, the black is sort of flaking away on his costume. And, you know, characters should change in television.

Like, you don't, we're not watching a procedural. We're not watching, like, with love and respect, bones where we need characters just stay exactly as they are as things go on, et cetera. But there is something about season one, A Born Again, where it was just hard to even recognize Matt Murdoch inside of that show. and what were, you know, in his relationship with Heather, et cetera, et cetera. And so to surround him with different people to get this glimpse inside, this necessary tone balance of the grim dark with the lightness, you know,

which foggy was essential to in the original series is, you know, I don't know how that will endure beyond a flashback episode, but it was really welcome here. Yeah, and even I think also these episodes were, much stronger to me on the kingpin front as well for his version of a similar reason, which is like rendering a full version of who a character is. That's always what the Netflix show did so spectacularly. You know, when we did our celebration of our favorite moments from the original series,

one of the moments that we both highlighted and talked about was, you know, that episode, season one, episode eight of the original series, Wilson, his plea to Vanessa to tell him that you was a good man, right? And so I was in a like scenes from a marriage way, actually kind of like here for playing with the women marriage counseling. This is kind of rocky aspect of their relationship in season one as like a concept. But there was something in these last couple episodes about seeing Vanessa and Wilson in a place of like, who am I without you? That is like an undeniable beat of why Fisk and that this portrayal. of Fisk, Vincent D'onofrio's Fisk inside of our consumption of Marvel stories over the last

couple decades is, like, felt really undeniable. And when he's just corrupt politician, like, I just think that, like, to me, the, I'm trying to move weapons on the Northern Stars is fundamentally, like, uninteresting. Seeing him crying at his wife's bedside table after he, in an effort to save himself, and he told her not to come, and she did, because she, for all those reasons, he bashes that figurine and he sends that shard into her temple. You know, it's like all of that is a delicious brew. Doesn't mix, miss. So I think he would have hit her anyway.

But the fact that. Got shot. Yeah. Kingpin. Yeah. With the assist. I just think my guy Dex knows all the angles and he would have hit her anyway. But here's, I might say something controversial here.

Even though I think the last two episodes were the best that Born Again has been, and even though I really found the Vanessa and Kingpin storyline animating in the Netflix series. Yeah. I don't think Isler has been like the strongest aspect of the show. And I'm kind of glad she's going to be gone. I just, I, when she got the shard in her head in episode four, I was like, you cheered. I was like, this better be. I like, don't think this character's working.

Yeah. I thought her, her, Lily Taylor is a really welcome addition to the show. and I thought her scene with the governor was very good. But, like, in general, Vanessa Queenpin has just, like, not been working for me on this show. And so when she got the shard in her head, I was like, good. Good job, Dex. Like, you took an element of the show that wasn't really working potentially off the table. And then when they had the fake out in episode five of, like, she might still be alive.

Yeah. I was like, no, please. I need this to be. And, like, I feel guilty. guilty saying that, but I just don't think she was working. And I think it's good when shows can just recognize something that's not working and, like, have Nikki and Paolo die by Spider-Bite. You know what I mean? Like, whatever you need to do. That's a tough gone for Vanessa. Whatever you do to take them off the board, you know? Yeah, I mean, I don't think that this version

of their relationship across the series to date ever came close to matching what we got in the original. But that's kind of why seeing the like anguish on the precipice of that loss was like so rivening to me. I mean, Danofriot was so good. Yeah, like the kingpin that we're going to get in the wake of that, especially because they spent those couple episodes reinforcing the like, well, wait, why are you chasing this global reach? And should we just go to our island? No, you're Anakin Skywalker. Like, you don't like sand. Don't know, maybe.

It was the worst. right way. I think there's a way to watch the season and say that feels like a radical recalibration of the version of their relationship they gave us, but because we now know where it was building toward, I was grateful to get like a return to form and a reminder, just of like kind of how they feel about each other and how they interact with each other before it was taken away because now we're, and that's kind of been the story of Born Again so far as like in the, ultimately for the quality of the show and the life of the show coming every year. The year-long thing is exciting for a lot of reasons.

Obviously, we just don't get that with too many programs now. Something like, you know, we're five episodes in. Jessica Jones has been, like, alluded to and, like, Jess has been mentioned, but she's not here yet. It's less, I mean, she could be here as soon as next week, right? That would be great. That's my hope. Who knows? There's a version of it where it's like, if it's only at the very end of the season,

knowing that it will only be one year, not two, two and a half, three, until she's potentially more fully centered in the story until Luke Cage is here. etc. It allows for like a level of patience as they tweak and toy. And you too, Iron Fist. Sure. Yeah. Not exactly quite as high on my list on my anticipate on my own. But yeah, like I think that they have clearly identified the things that aren't working and that they need to change. It can lead to this sort of like incongruous like, okay, every episode and a half were really obviously adjusting for a thing that wasn't working. But if the adjustment benefits

the characters of the story, then it's worth it at some point, hopefully equilibrium will be achieved. We're calling the cast a bit. We're getting the actors closer to the modes that they are most suited for. I'm going to talk a lot actually about Wilson Bethel and what they've done

with him in these episodes, obviously. But that actor in particular, I'm like, oh, they've identified what he's really good at. And actually he's been kind of chafing against this other thing that he's had to do actually since they brought him on in season three of Daredevil for Netflix. And so I think that I think having the bravery to admit where you were off the mark in certain things and just sort of pivot to what lead into strengths, pivot to what working, call the cast a little bit, which they've been doing.

You know, like Cherry's not really here. You know, now Vanessa's off the board. We've had less Heather. You know, we're just sort of like, the BB report is this other fun thing. You know, it's these anonymous videos instead. And so that's just sort of like taking the building blocks and flipping them around and showing us the stronger version of it, which is really exciting. Yeah, and it's like not like we had to lose everything, right? Some things do work.

Like our guys, Buck Cashman and Daniel Blake, have never been thriving more than they are right now. And that's a new thing in this version of the show. in this era of the show. And, you know, we talked when we did the, um, the, the season two premiere episode about like how, you know,

when you invoke the past, if the present is not as strong, it's not, it's a risk, actually. It reminds you of the better version of the thing you had before. There would have been an episode of this show. Earlier this season, certainly last season,

we're cutting, not with Buck and Daniel, because they've always been great. We've always loved them. But like, a comp to this cutting to Wesley to, to like remind us of, basically like, who did these new characters replace?

Would have been like a real, oh, no thing. But in the alchemy inside of this episode was like, all right, maybe we have found it at last, which new things are working? Heather, you know, like the Kirstim Heather scene on the street was probably my favorite Heather scene in a while because it kind of leaned into the thing that we talked about that's interesting about her repositioning as a character this season where it's like, until you've been through this thing, like, don't tell me what you would do with it, right? But I just, I'm like, not, I'm not missing more Heather, you know?

But pairing her with Buck Cashman in that scene, I thought, was extremely good. He's carrying that conversation. But, like, I was like, oh, yeah, I'm actually completely locked into this entire scene. Yeah. And that, you know, I know you, I know you. That was great. You love your guy Buck Cashman. I do.

And I love him. And then when they were like, Daniel, is he the, oh, is he the jester? And he's, you know, I'm actually growing quite fond of him. Yeah. He grows on you. That's what everyone says. Baby said it too. He grows on you. Sure does. I love him. Okay. Will Daniel and Buck come up in our awards today? Will bullseye, we'll foggy? I suspect so. I suspect so. This podcast is an excuse to celebrate all of our favorite dare devil bros. Here we go. It's time for the midseason awards.

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The Vanessa stuff was fine. I just, I texted you about this. I thought her, like, CGI facelift was, like, really uncannily bad. And her wigs were terrible. We'll talk more about wigs. Oh, we got a whole wigwatch category coming for you today. You're going to cook. No, it's foggy. I will give it to, I think you have something else foggy related that is important to talk about. So I'll just give it to them, you know, sort of, you know, sort of, you know, sort of. like being at their desks at work. Yeah. And just fucking around and talk about foot fetishes. Matt, Matt really revealing some stuff there.

Some foot stuff. Some foot stuff. Do you think that Matt Murdoch, what do you think he would make of Laris and Allison Tye Tower? What do you think this says about that scene where he walks home barefoot from She-Hulk's, his asyncination was She-Hulk? Yeah, quite a bit. I mean, that was already a wonderful and very memorable stretch.

Here we go. Yep. A little bit more. Uh-huh. Just wonderful to have Foggy Back. Yeah. Avocados at Law is like a sort of cheap shot straight to my heart. Like, you know, really, really good stuff.

But just having them back, you know, pre-Nelson and Murdoch at their old job, chafing against what they have to do, their banter, all of that. Sort of the lightness of it. There's deeper stuff to get into, which I think is what you'll be dwelling on. But I think the lightness was really important, too. Yeah. Corona. Swigin some corona. us stashing some cash.

Yeah. They've saved up $1,700 that Foggy's going to give away. To a random. Yeah. Well, you know, childhood neighbor, mean, cruel brother. What did you think of Foggy the Fembod as a cruel childhood nickname in sight? I thought that was like a Disney version of like what they probably called him. You're probably right.

You're probably right. I have a clip. Play it. Are you supposed to be the Catholic one here? Oh, come on. All right. So fine. with killed now. How about mercy? It's got to be something about that in the Bible. Second

chance is redemption. You know, there are just some things that you kind of can't do better than and foggy talking to Matt about what is inside and how he makes his decisions and why is like core daredevil text. It's just the best. I, I, you're right that it was kind of like the transition from Matt. I mean, I love the way we cut between these Matt and Dex moments and these Matt and Foggy. And the audio bleed. So when we cut from Matt telling Dex not to say Foggy's name right into hearing Foggy say, even the best avocados have to do grunt work, I was just like, oh my God, they got me. Like, they got me, you know?

There are just some things that are going to work if you're a fan of these characters and these relationships in this show or this franchise. And that's that's one of them. But this late night and it's very, you know, good, like the, it's from a place of kindness here. And there's like a good spirited debate, but they're not tearing each other apart as we have seen many times, right, with them across the years. But this idea of like actually seeing something about the law, about their role in it, about society. from a different point of view. Like the fact that Foggy and Matt don't always agree, and then they workshop it and they talk it through, is one of the things that I love most about their relationship. One of our favorite episodes of the show is Nelson v. Murdoch from the Netflix series, which is the avocado-at-law sort of episode. But their constant conversations about, you know, what is right,

what, you know, when do we let the law guide? When do we let sort of vigilante justice guide? What stops us, what stays our hand. The idea of mercy, mercy is a Catholic concept. Inside of mercy being one of the most famous sort of like Shakespearean, the quality of mercy is not strained legal arguments from the Merchant of Venice. You know, this idea of like, you know, what is the justice system if not some kind, there's justice and there's vengeance inside of the concept of justice, but there's also mercy inside of that, a chance to rehabilitate yourself, a second chance. It's a, you know, we don't just like, it's not an eye for an eye. That's not the world that we've chosen to shape inside of our, when it's working, a judicial system.

You know what I mean? And so I think him framing mercy is a Catholic concept, but it being such a key legal judicial concept. And then, of course, for it to like come back again in the flashback and then inform what Matt does with Dex. It's a great episode. You invoked the bard, who was always welcome here at the House of Ar. Maybe it'll come up in a later category. But your guy, Buck Cashman, just drop in Iago while flirting. Very special.

Very powerful. Really good. I think more important is accent corner, learning that Buck's accent is put on. One of the great developments in the series today. You come up in the will. Like, okay, chim-chim-chiru. Buck Catherine. For both the accent and the wig, you were obviously the first person I thought of.

Thank you. But yeah, to the mercy point. And, like, that's why I picked that clip. Like, Foggy, Matt, it hasn't always, it's not always easy. It's a thing they do for each other, but it can often go wrong. Like, the fact that there were moments for them across the episodes and the run of the series were, like, the fact that a certain part of Matt's identity was something that Foggy couldn't accept, right? Or felt like Matt had kept from him. His life is daredevil as one example.

This is a moment where Foggy is appealing to the different aspects of this person he knows so well and understands so deeply, reaching him. not through somebody else's view of the world, but through his own. It's like a way to show us really the depth of their understanding of each other and their friendship. And then, of course, to continue to remind us of like what Matt and Karen have lost. You know, and especially as Matt is making that choice to go back into the basement of where the church, the church that he hid out in, you know, for so many of his own days. I still think of declaring the blood with the netty pot in season three. one of weirdly left a real impression on me in the Netflix series. But yeah, this was just perfect. And, like, you have more specific to foggy moments in this episode that I really love to.

Like, I thought when he went to give Lionel the money and Lionel, you know, who we meet is this, like, this tough, this heavy. Basically is crying, saying, like, that thing you had with my brother, like, I never had a friend like that. It's like, you can just, I know. Yeah, you just, foggy brings this out in people. Like, I, I, I, I'm so sad that he's gone, but I think that this is a really smart way to keep him alive in our experience of watching the show, like, through the memories, because the memories that we have with him and the history that he has with the characters, like, those things don't go away just because he's gone. How often do you think they're going to use foggy flashbacks? Maybe once a season? Okay. That would be great.

It's not enough for me. I mean, it's certainly not enough, but it would be better than them doing it once and never again. Yeah, fair enough. You know? That would be fucking tragic. What did you think of seeing Wesley? Was it a thrill? We love Leslie. We're Wesley heads. Again, I was like a little... Wesley was great. Just there he is, in a car on the phone. It was just like, placing a menacing order. I was a little distracted by like all the various

de-aging efforts that they did and didn't make. Like, they didn't really try with him. So he just looks like, because he hasn't been on the show since season one. That's been so long. And so like, that man has, is, looks very different. he did in season one, which is fine. He looks quite handsome, I think. Looks great. But I was just sort of like, okay, they pasted all the CGI on Vanessa's face, but they just, like, left his neck the way they did. I don't know. Just like double standards of de-aging. Wesley was on my mind elsewhere in the stretch of episodes when, you know, Karen is just like,

gonna shoot some people. I was like, can I just say? Fuck Cashman. Yeah. A name that we spent a lot of time talking about. Yeah. It makes so much more sense that Buck Cashman is the name of like a rough and tumble guy who has adopted the look and the accent of Wesley. Because, you know. It explains a lot.

It does. Buck Cashman. We had a real problem with the name. And we were like, should it be like Sir Pound Sterling or something like that, you know? But now that we know that he's not to the man are born, then this is much more apt, I think. It all tracks. It really does all track on the Buck Cashman front. American, but okay. On the Vanessa front, my least favorite use of a flashback was specifically,

this felt a little bit like in the spirit of Daredevil Born Again in the earlier days. Miserable emptiness reflected back at him like the way she was talking about in the snowstorm. I'm like, we get it actually. And it was perfectly done. We're good. But foggy, it was great. Foggy was great. Foggy was great. Let's talk about another person who was very important to this show and to this podcast. She can fix him Favorite Bolzai moment Impossible to choose I have this is a house of our smuggle

I have the longest list I've ever created for anything Is that true? Is it longer on some of your spike list? How could it be? Is it? Oh my God! Because it's like every second I know that it has been great Every single second of that the intro to episode four Yes Is just hit after hit after hit you text in me

I spent a long time looking up, why would you do push-ups that way to understand what muscle groups exactly that he was trying to love that? What did you think of the way he was doing this with the wrist? I mean, it takes the mind in some interesting places. Absolutely.

You texted me. Dexterity. Dexterity. It sure is that the opening to episode four, and I quote, rewrote your DNA. I think it does. Since you can't possibly pick just one. I have a clip.

Excellent. One banana milkshade. You won't whip. Doesn't everybody. Okay. Doesn't everybody. That is something that the actor Wilson Bethel can do in his sleep. I've talked about this before, my love for the show Heart of Dixie, where he played a character, Wade Kinsella, and that was essentially what he did, leaning and smirking and grinning and winking and like all this other shit.

Were banana milkshakes involved? No, but But they could have been They could have been Whip I'm sure was involved at some point For several seasons He is one of the most

effortlessly charming people So to have him woo a neighbor Woo a cat I mean later You know Some tough stuff with a dog

Yeah Oh also that To have him Flip an egg without looking To have him To give him A Billy Joel Needle drop

to have him, I'm sorry, I'm pro, wipe out the entire fucking task force. I'm into it. The toothpick and the straw moment. That was amazing. Having a dog in the diner is not sanitary moment. Every single thing, every throw that he makes without looking, and it all hits.

He flicks a coin, it goes into that unhoused man's little outstretched cup. These bulls-eye. I mean, and then the artist's, of the oil in the pan and the ketchup on the door. I mean, it's all so good. And then he does what fucking Matt Murdoch cannot, which is at least take out one of the king and or queen pens. You know what I mean?

And it's just sort of like, thank you. He's getting the job done. And then so he does all of that in episode four. And then episode five, amazing stuff. Guess what? I have more decks clips for later. But like, there's this profound

emotionally damaged aspect that he brings forth and he is capable of all these things. So like, have I always enjoyed Wilson Bethel in this role? Yes. But it's like I watched when I was unpacking my house last week. I rewatched the movie Lincoln,

which I hadn't seen since it came out. Murder's row of character actors in that movie, of course. Like every single character actor of all time is in there. But Walton Goggins is in there in, and he plays like this very, like, wimpy, like, sort of, like, fearful role. And Walton Goggins has been miscast so many times in his life, but when you have Walton Gagins do Boyd Crowder some flavor of that, on White Lotus, he did some flavor of that. I am extremely excited.

And so when you cast an actor and you let them actually do the thing that they could do better than almost anyone else. I get so excited. So, like, Dex in his sort of, like, restrained, like, repressed, medicated, all these other things

that he was doing in season three. I thought he was, like, quite good. His season one stuff was, you know, here, there, everywhere. But in this stretch, he goes, I had to get my mind back,

right? And so now he's just sort of like, if you're like, hey, this isn't a Dex I recognize. I would agree with you. If you're like, hey, I feel like they've dramatic.

rewritten this character, I'd be like, I agree with you, but they've rewritten him in a way that allows his actor to do something he is unparalleled good at, and I am for it. So, Dex, I always loved you, but now Wilson Bethel getting to fire on all cylinders, like, every single piece of silverware in the diner flung. Not a single lobster left behind. I am, like, really for it. So my only note is when he scared the dog, that was tough, especially after seeing him, you know, act so tenderly toward the cat. You know? Yeah, this has been a wonderful stretch.

It really has a great performance. And I think a really interesting evolution for Dex, four bulls. I, for him in a vacuum, but with what is unlocking with his relationship with Matt and for Matt, you know, there's like, this is really not ever a total risk with Daredevil because Charlie Cox is so good. And, you know, Matt is such an endlessly fascinating character. but like, bull's eye is so good. Foggy is back. We're getting something out of Kingpin we like. Jessica Jones is coming soon.

Buck and Daniel where it's like, you don't want Matt Murdoch to recede in his own show. Right. Right. And so watching him and Dex in the tunnels, in the church, what they're saying to each other in a way that is like such a centering of the theme and the tension, but feels, I think, very authentic and believable for those characters. And I think those flashback moments were really key to let Charlie Cox do what he can do so well,

which is play different notes on the piano. This sort of like growling, rage-filled, you know, Daredevil, just like a lot of growling and snarling. And very heavy breathing after the acrobatics. Time comes for us all. It's like giving Colby to you. giving a little Ozzy on my back. My back. Just let me get the key.

Just let me get the key. But like, you know, finding his humanity, his humor, his lightness inside of this snarling darkness is important for the show. And I mean, so if I had to pick, I say my favorite Dex moment was when he gave the egg to the cat and pet the cat's head because it was lovely. Though if you are going to give an egg to a cat, I don't think it should be prepared in as much oil as Dex had prepared. that in, that's just, we'll file that away. I also thought that was a lot of oil. That's not good for the cat. Egg is, egg. There's one of my tics that you like to point out. I say, I hear the word egg or say the word egg, and then I just have to go into mainstream. But I think in, so I love the beginning of episode four. I call your throats true.

Yeah. I said, egg, egg. I thought the beginning of episode four was like just a delight. Transcendant. An absolute delight. But Matt and Dax together, Bullseye and Daredevil together. in episode five was the thematic richness that Daredevil at its height can give us. And the way that there is that, because we'd had that conversation in another scene that we'll talk about in other categories, I suspect, about the one good deed thing. And Dexterily, like, declaring the thing that he is seeking, like, quite nakedly, right? Why he needs to do it and what scales he thinks it will tip and scales of justice across all the different settings of a Daredevil story always applicable, right?

But like, Matt is screaming at him. You know, don't say his name. Like, you don't get to say his name. But then when Dex says, first you try to kill me, then you try to save me and I'm the one who needs help, you know, and sort of points out the thing that we love about Matt, which is like constant tension and conflict and dissidents inside, conflict in the human heart. Don't know if it has come up on this podcast before, but it is the only thing worth writing about Matt saying, I tried to save you because I tried to save you because I tried to.

to kill you? Well, I lost like that out on Josie's roof. Maybe tonight's penance is mutual. Like, Matt is very aware of the thing that he is navigating in real time here, right? And I think, I think it's so smart to make the impossible survival of that fall a feature, not a bug. You know what I mean? To make that sort of a contextual, I should not have survived that. Right. So that is dramatically altered who I am as a person. Yes. this second chance I have to write a wrong or whatever, whereas we as TV viewers are like, that was so baffling. He definitely killed him and then that character was fine. Like, that was so weird. But I think that like what we're doing a bit in a way that I don't resent at all is kind of running back

some of the Punisher daredevil dynamics of like no half measures, et cetera, et cetera. You know, like Dex might as well have said no half men. measures. Yeah. And he does say, like, I'll do the thing you can. I'm going to put some glass. I'm going to do it. Her dress will become the painting.

Do you get it? Do you see the blood on the white? And it's like Kingpin's blood on the painting is the same. Yeah. So, you know, he's an artist. Poetry? It rhymes. I think that some of what transpires between Matt and Dex and the church could come up in the next category.

Should we transition to it? It is the best. We're back at church. What do you got? I have a clip that I wanted to be longer, but legally it is this length. The worst part is when you think you got a beat. He's saying, I outran it. And then you turn a corner, bam.

There it is. Staring you right in the face. Only it's worse this time and you know it's always going to be there. What I love about that clip, and thank you so much to Carlos for his work on the clips. But what I love about that, I was like, I want to make sure we get Matt looking up while he's talking like, Dex is like basically horizontal as he's like bleeding out. Gurgling blood, dropping bars. But Matt is like, Matt will eventually turn his head and look at him. But for a lot of that scene, he's just looking up. Yeah. They're sitting in the pews.

And he's just sort of like looking up at, you know, the grand design is the name of this episode. And we'll talk about... Multiple characters say it. Yeah, multiple characters literally say, hey, that's the name of the episode. But, like, we'll talk about some other things. But, like, for Matt, when he's thinking about a grand design, he's thinking about, you know, capital G God. And that is an important part of his character and his person. And so for him to be sitting there and, like, looking up and Dex is giving him, you know, Matt is always fighting the devil within him.

But, like, Dex is giving him kind of a sort of, like, Lucifer and, Paradise lost kind of argument about sort of the nature of who we are and it's inescapable and this is who we are. And I just thought this was so potent and powerful. And for Dex to just be like, I did it. I did my deed and let me die. Let me die. But also you and I, we're not so different. This is what we do. This is who we are. This is how we are. And we will always find our way back care. Yeah. I just thought it was really powerful. I agree. I wrote down two lines for this category. One was that one, and one was what I picked for my clip. I thought that was electric. And, you know, we were just talking about the season one moment where Matt pushes decks off the roof.

And obviously, they talk about it in this episode. And I think that the, what the choice to do that thing, have Matt make a decision that is intended to kill him, something that despite, you know, as we've chronicled over many pods, Matt routinely like dropping characters over many floors of a staircase with a chain link. He doesn't kill it around their neck. He doesn't kill.

He doesn't kill. And that that was a violation of something he holds dear. The thing that now in subsequent episodes and in this stretch in particular, that has unlocked for Matt, there's a version of it where, like, had Dex died, it is a level of unparalleled, unmatched despair for Matt because he is,

it is a violation that he can't return from. Right. A different type of, of, path to penance that he'll have to seek in perpetuity. But like, an eye for an icon of justice that. But Dex being alive is actually like a bigger reminder of what Matt did because it's not just the tug of guilt internally. It is a person in front of him with this giant gaping scar on his cheek forcing Matt to continue

to interrogate why he did that thing. It does look good. It does look good. It's sculpting sort of scar. She highlights the cheekbones, I think. Do you think Dex is until it looks smacking? It's worrying to consider. How?

Fucking dare you. Okay. I retract the statement. I'm sorry, he's a good and pure boy and you can fix him. No, he's not a good and pure boy, but looks maxing? My pick for Back to Church is a Matt-specific one that I felt was lovely in general, but even further heightened what we got in that much. moment between Matt and Dex because it rooted Matt back in this place of his heart, his soul,

his mind, his spirituality, all of it. Carlos, can we see this one from episode four? And abhor nothing so much as the darkness of evil and sin. Amen. Haven't heard that one in a long time? I knew a boy. I knew a boy like killed me. That hit me so hard and we flashed to young Matt. And you know, we get a couple moments like that in these episodes, the fact that... Did you really just pick that clip so we can celebrate Hot Priest? Hot Priest is great. I'm a big fan.

Big fan. What is the curl... Drop the curl routine. Hot Priest. Wonderful stuff. Will you say Hot Priest? Like, will a Fox be involved at any point in this season of television? Makes you think.

Makes you think. You'll get over it. We get, you know, we flash to like... It'll pass. when we find out where Kingpin's boxing match is going to be. And Matt's like, what was my father's gym? We get a couple young Matt moments in these episodes, and it's like... Balin Jack poster on the wall.

Yeah. Yeah. So, again, I like that stuff being in a daredevil show. It feels appropriate and it feels like it belongs. And so I think in general, like you said earlier, the kind of like confidence to say, we're going to return to some things that feel important, actually, that we left behind. With the spirituality, with Matt's religion in particular in his relationship to Catholicism, I think it's the area of born again that is, like, in some ways, the most natural to reincorporate

because it feels authentic that part of the journey for Matt with his, like, relationship to God and Catholicism is ebbs and flows, right? Like, that's not a linear path. And so the fact that he has stretches where he moves away. from that doesn't mean that they can just like use the core of the character to explain why this was basically absent entirely from a full season of the show. But when Matt goes back then, he can say in a way that feels true, I have to tap back into this. I have to rediscover this. Do you think with Dex, there's also, this is related to Matt, even though I just started with the name Dex, do you think with Dex, there's also, there's this like living reminder of this thing

that he, this personal code that he broke in intending to kill him. But do you think it's also inside of this concept of the grand design, do you think it's also like God saved him and in that way also saved me from having committed this murder? If I don't count all the other murders that I've definitely committed. All of them. Allegiance. And like also the people who didn't die, but are forever, forever imperiled by what that did to them. But this one I definitely meant to do.

and miraculously he didn't die. And did God do that for me to save me from myself? I mean, the thing that he says, this is the prayer to St. Lucia, right before the portion of it that we just heard in the clip, by the light of the faith that God bestowed upon you, increase and preserve this light in my soul so that I may avoid evil.

So whether or not he is thinking of it exactly that way, or he is saying, I know that I have this in me, right? But I also know that I have that capacity in me and, like, help me get back there and that going into this building and sitting in those pews and seeking counsel or maybe outside on the bench,

like the person he did that with before isn't here anymore, but the place that unlocks that introspection inside of the is. But let's not dwell on who. Let's not spend too long thinking about who killed him. Could have been anyone. Could have been anyone.

Did you say the tweet that was someone, I forget if you sent it to me, so maybe you did, but it was, it was like a, someone wrote, I can fix him over Dex. And then someone quotuted him and was like, no, I can fuck him. I can't fix him. I'm a sicko, not a therapist. No. I have not seen that was it from one of your burners. I'm not that brilliant. I thought that was, I thought that was artwork. Dare you. A dare you. Religion, core part of the Matt Murdoch experience. The court of law. Also a core part of the Matt Murdoch experience. Matt is not practicing law this season, but it is still at some points a legal drama. So our next category is, best use of a courtroom setting. Anything in these

stretch of episodes that actually worked for you in this respect. I would say it's a dream of a future. Yes, tell me. And it's because the actress playing Chief Justice Waters, is Deidre Lovejoy, who played Ronda on the Wire. And so I was like, I don't think you cast that actress for one scene, one episode. So it makes me hopeful that we are going to come back to the courtroom. And are we coming back to the courtroom this season? Because, you know, Kingpins like keep them alive, you know, if you find Ther Devil and Bullseye, keep them alive. Now, my initial instinct was keep them alive so that I can personally, you know, nutcracker their heads.

I think that was what it was. Put them in a cage, eat dinner in front of them, whatever the case may be, you know. But or is it like, is there some version of this where it's like I can prosecute, make a public embarrassment of them or something like that? Yeah. So like, is Dex going back to court? Is Matt going back to court as like as the, you? you know, personal on trial. So mostly it's just sort of like my hope for the future use of courtroom.

Because, I mean, having the swordsman in this season was great, explaining why Karen and Matt now have unlimited funds also great. Yes, that was helpful. Yes. Him in a tuxedo in the courtroom, very, very good, you know, all good stuff. But that, but like they didn't put him on, you know, like he didn't like get to do his thing in the courtroom. And so it's just sort of like, I'm like, I hope, I'm hopeful for more. Yes, rather than what we've seen so far. I did like when Kirsten said, don't be a dick, Hawkberg, while approaching the bench.

That was pretty funny. Yeah, I agree. I think I did want to say in this category that I liked, even though it was very brief. I was confused by the pace with which we moved through the swordsman trial, given how, like, fully it had been propped up as, you know, these vigilante trials. And this thing that was going to be like a kind of central. beat of, and, you know, just obviously we get the rescue and the springing of the... Can I just say? Yes, please.

We have, so we have, like, quick use of the key card to open all the cells. It looked so dorky. Yeah. We have a sickest fight category. Yeah. Coming up. Yeah. Matt sort of like hunching over as he opened each cage.

Quite bad. Looked so stupid. It was weird. And I was like, this is, this is, like, you have in, in Charlie Cox, and all of his stunt doubles, one of the, like, most satisfying to watch physical performers, and you have him, like, hunch over and open, like, it looked, I was, like, throw something to, like, open all the cages.

Like, what are we doing? I also think you... Use the belly club. What are we doing? You had to kind of, like, be paying pretty close attention, because he does, like, flash the key card before that, and then there's a little, like, chime as... But if you're sort of, like, I don't know, watching TV the way

a lot of people watch TV in the modern era, you would be forgiven for... thinking that there just were no locks or something, and he's just opening them? It was very odd, very odd sequence. I did, in the stretch that we did get in the courtroom, I marked with interest as well, the quick little dynamic among the three justices

and the clear discomfort in the middle there. And hopefully we will return to that in a way that is interesting. I, seeing Kirsten, who obviously is going through this, like, okay, where's Matt? What's going on with all of this? U.S. Marshals will keep you safe. Well, that was obviously just inane. Karen culpable, I'll note.

If he would like me to care for these characters, I need them to be less idiotic sometimes. That was wild. It's like this as soon as they said that, it's like, all right, well, this guy's about to be dead. And guess what? That's what happened. Yeah.

I liked, you know, on the street with Heather before the actual scene in the very small courtroom, you know, that now if you don't mind, I have to go defend a dangerous man against an entire system hell bent on putting him away. Just actually letting a see Kirsten operate in the capacity that like helps us now in hindsight fill in some of those blanks of like, she and Matt ended up opening a practice together and like doing this work together. And, you know, something that was not quite working and hitting the right frequency in season one was Kirsten and Cherry as Karen and foggy replacements in Matt's life without allowing us to really celebrate and understand the depth of the connection between those characters. And seeing how Kirsten thinks about the law and thinks about the often impossible work of trying to do this right and righteous thing, and every aspect of the system and society around you is reinforcing that it is literally impossible, right? You found out this trial that's been the center of the media narrative

in the city for weeks on end was coming up in two days, and Hockburg is like, winking, smug, oh, well, I sent it to your email email address, yeah. And like to see what she's up against and to just think of all those moments that Matt and Foggy and Karen were in that place. It helped me feel the connection

that she has with those characters in a good way. Seeing her at the bar, you know, like, just making her more of a human and less of a like, Matt, we need to run our law office, this like drag on him and more of just someone more deeply involved in the story. I think she's working much better this season than she did less last year. Glad you mentioned that scene at the bar though. Karen with like the all-time cock block. What the fuck what? I mean, coming in to drop the napkin message, knocking her over. She had just gotten a drink from the hot dude behind her. A really hot dude, by the way.

Let her. And also. Go let off some steam. after a talk day at the office, Karen. Worse wig yet? Listen. It's hard. It's hard to pick.

They're all very bad. They're just some incredibly bad wigs in this season of television. Do you think with the now unlimited funds, she can afford better wigs for her various shenanigans? That's a great question. Okay. Upgrade the wigs. Maybe that's going to be Sorgeman's true contribution is, yeah, allowing Karen to get better wigs. That would be great.

Yeah, that would be great. Will you pick a wig in the same? next category. We'll find out. It's the saddest moment. I have actually, I'm going to, I'm going to zag. Okay. Because I think I was going to pick like something Kingpin related or whatever. Don't worry. I'll be doing that. Interestingly, you know, I won't say what it is, but I, you know, we didn't watch the screeners, but several websites in their recaps of this episode, mention a scene at the end of the episode that is not in the version

that we watch on Disney Plus. I have not seen the scene because I didn't watch the screeners. But I think these people wrote their recaps based off of screeners. So I don't know if they've like moved that scene to the beginning of the next episode. But like variety has, you know what I mean?

It's not just like some rando blog. It's like variety has a description of a scene that was like either cut or moved. And I was just like that's very strange. Intriguing. Anyway, it's Kingpin-related. Saddest moment. Okay.

I'm actually going to give it to your fave, Daniel Blake. When, like, Beebe gives him the hug and he sort of, like, collapses into it a little bit. He's down so bad. At the hospital. He knows that she's leaking. He does not miss a trick, like, when they're in line for the fight, and stuff like that. Like, he knows. Yeah.

He's tried to tell her, like, stop doing this. It's going to hurt you and me. All this or stuff like that. But he's so gone for her. Just loves her. That he can't, you know, help himself. And so when she's like, I'm sorry and she hugs him, then there's this weird ADR, like, she's in critical condition moment. But anyway, like, the hug, him just sort of like leaning into the hug was very sad because she's being, she cares about him.

She does. But she's being manipulative. Yeah. And it's working on it. And he knows she's manipulating him. but it still feels good to be in her arms. That was sad. I can't believe how invested I am in their relationship.

It's like wild. I love that moment as well. You're, I think, channeling me by picking that and saying that that was so touching and sad, and I'll channel you here by saying when that happened, the voice in my head, it was your voice saying, Daniel Blake too dumb to live. I'm sorry. Kind of. Like, Daniel.

You're not wrong. Daniel. You're not wrong. I love him. I love him. Okay, so like, do you think that's what's going to happen to Daniel or does he kill her before the end of the season? I think that will be a choice he has asked to me. Yeah.

That feels like where we're heading. Yeah. Yeah, with everything that's happened with Daniel and Buck. Does he kill her? Does he let her go? And then he's the one who dies. Yeah. Thanks to our guy Buck Cashman.

stepping out of the shadows. Daniel Blake, too dumb to live, but also, like, too fun to get off the show. So keep them around. I don't know if I'll continue watching if Daniel Blake is killed. I somehow powered through when we took foggy away from us. It's kind of how I feel about Dex. Yeah. Well, I was, I mean, I was a little bit concerned in this episode because you could feel that they were building toward an actual, like, something of consequence was really going to happen. It's like, Will it be Vanessa? Well, Dex. It's pretty relieved as a person who loves you that it wasn't Dex. Thanks for caring about me. I love Dex, too, so I'm thrilled that he's still here.

The thing that makes me feel Daniel is going to be around for the long term is like multiple mentions across these episodes of the air. And like I feel like they are... Mini Kingpin? Yeah, like potentially. I mean, there's a lot of theorizing on the internet of like, is he going to be revealed to be like his actual son? Is that a thing that's coming? But certainly the adopt, the kind of like adopted, you know, when Kingpin is like propped on the desk and, you know, the lecture in episode two, three. And the like test of, you know, is there, okay, this leak is something's going on.

It's like your responsibility. And obviously Daniel will get a version of that, many versions of that from Buck. But the like, you know, is there anyone in this building you would do anything to protect? And Daniel's like, yeah, you. And Kingpin's like, good answer. And then you had, you know, the conversation with, well, Wilson and Vanessa, Vanessa, when they're talking about, like, legacy and global reach. It's like...

It's out of one side of your own. Like you're ventriloquist. Arna, Vanessa. Vanessa. Vanessa. Yeah. Could you do a, could you operate a ventriloquist dummy? I don't know why I did, like, a tickling the balls.

But like you put your hand up like the ass, right? Of the dummy. Yeah, isn't that how it works? Not the ass, but like the back. Like up the back of the coat is sort of the thing. That makes a little bit more sense. Just right up the shoot. Thanks for clarifying.

But in episode... A hand puppet, you are essentially, like, right up the, you know... Yeah. The causeway there, but I think... For a ventralcus dummy, it's more of, like, a thoracic spine sort of situation. Great. Now I know. The more you know.

that came to have a Vanessa conversation but without an air we've always been enough for each other it felt like quite conspicuously positioned in that conversation in episode two

and then in episode three when Buck and Heather are at the gala and have that conversation talking about Daniel as the jester and that at first glance but is there more

than meets the eye an air unapparent feels like they're leading us towards that doesn't mean that he couldn't yeah it could be like Like, hey, you are, I basically think of you like a son.

If that's what you want, kill this girl. Get rid of the person that you love. And I think that's a particularly likely given that where we now find Kingpin is, I'm without the person I loved. I'm without the one person who anchored me to my humanity, right? Put her in a white dress. Just blood everywhere. Shove a Glass Shardner Temple.

Did you think it might? I didn't think Buck was bringing Daniel out there to kill him. Incredible sequence. But I was wondering if it was BB in the trunk. That was something that occurred to me. That she was already dead. And it was like... I didn't think that just because I feel it's...

I feel so sure they're going to... That Buck and or Kingpin are going to make Daniel do it. And then Daniel will have to make his choice. Or that she was like alive and tied up in the trunk and it's like, here you go. Now you have to do it. But that's... But now it was the later in the season. It was the guy who should never have been with the U.S. Marshals, Mr. Firstmate.

Mr. First made himself. My saddest moment is Vanessa dying and being killed. Is it Vanessa living so much for life without pineapple juice? Who doesn't love a little lip tingle, honestly? I think that... Do you think she would have lived if the medical professional had been allowed to take her vitals like they wanted to? I think it's possible. I mean, maybe not.

There was probably just like, get out of here, get her pineapple juice. Put that Sethoscope away. A lot of brain bleed. It seemed. But maybe. I do think also the specialist, the renowned specialist who came in and was like, I've checked out the chart. And I'm like, what about actually looking at our brain? That seems important.

I don't know. It's pit season. So we're always thinking about... It's the end of pit season. I know. It's sad. It's right. Could Mel or Huckleberry or Santos or McKay or McKay or.

or Robbie or Ellis or anyone have saved Vanessa. What do we think? Dr. John Shen. With the Dunkin Donuts? Yeah. Hell yeah. Dr. John Shen would have been like, I'll get you your pineapple juice

because I, too, enjoy a sweet treat. And also, I will take your vitals. I love an icy beverage through a straw. But yeah, you know, Vanessa's death, but really, like, I don't know, just the emotion between them in those sequences. It did get me the like... And Donofrio's like...

Dinafrio, the way that his face just, like, crumbles. Yeah. at the end when he's like basically direct to camera. Oh my God. I think the moment that where I was like, I am feeling this and am sad and affected by this was actually when she woke up and that brief hope and like the way that through those tears,

he asked her if she was thirsty or hungry and if there was anything he could get for her. Like it's just, it was the most normal. I mean obviously a horrifying circumstance? You mean how I greet you every time we come into the studio and you're like, I've had a stressful day and I'm like, can I get you? Exactly like that.

Water. And then I say, How about an ice cold pineapple juice and you say there isn't any here, but that is one of the flavor offerings in the cooler. Would you like some electrolytes? I wonder if there's pineapple out there actually. No free ads. No free ads for Bevby, but yeah. I still haven't tried any of the flavors. I bet pineapple is there seasonally. We have a weird water machine here that I love that I'm obsessed with. I've just been hitting pure every time. It's got a experiment. It's got flavors on it, baby. I'm going to try. I'm going to try a flavor. Okay, we were just talking a little bit about Buck and Daniel. We have a whole category. going to vote to them. It is the Buck Cashman and Daniel Blake's Celebration Corner. You have a clip. I think you should play it. I do have a clip. And I have to be honest, it was hard to select from all of the,

just the treasure trove of moments between the two of them. Carlos. Well, you do realize we have the governor's dinner in an hour, don't you? Yeah. For us for all, don't eat those things. What if it's gross? I mean, just incredible. That's what that inspired me to text to you about one of our colleagues, but also. But also. I knew it had to be that scene because based on the number of texts I have received from you that I've included the phrase street meat. I have texted me about the sequence a lot.

So many times. The restraint you showed to not pick the part of the clip where Buck Cashman himself like. Take some dainty nibble from the largest hot dog I've ever seen in my entire life. It's incredible. With all the fixings? What? You think he'll give you a total stranger his secret? to you, I just got you to eat street meat. What do you think is in that thing? Just incredible stuff

between the two of them. After that clip, Daniel just goes on and on. He's like, you're talking, you're munching. What if you laugh and spray food all over the deputy lieutenant? Not me. He just has this whole, like, philosophy about how to date a party. I agree. I really agree. Same. Don't eat at the party, eat before the party. Depending on the party. You have some shrimp cocktail, your guts bubbling. It's like an incredible scene. It was just the vest. Daniel, like, Do you feel represented by Daniel Blake? Have you never felt more seen? No, for a few reasons, his loyalty to Wilson Fisk being one of them, but the real reason is that he is...

Which team he supports? Correct. Thank you for knowing me. Now I feel seen. He has a fucking... I mean, he's got New York sports paraphernalia all over his office. But he has a Yankees. He's got the Jets pendant behind him.

You literally texted me about it. Yeah, it's interesting. Jets not giant, so that's the thing we know about him. He's got the Nix pennant, but he has a Yankees glove. So like, what if he was an Orioles fan? What if he was a Ravens fan? He would be the dearest to me of anyone who's ever graced my screen. I just love him.

I thought that then in... So that scene is a miracle. Just very, very amusing. And also, I do like that Buck is getting to, like, be a little weirder this... Weird in a different way. Like, he's, like, fun and light this season to then use the hot dog as the lore in episode five. to get Daniel from the hospital into the car. And then have the most, I mean, it was like intense.

My heart was pounding watching a Daniel is terrified that he's about to be killed. His guts, guess whose gutt was bubbling. Bubbling. Oh, they're a bubbling. He's like, I can come in with you. I could get some beef jerky for a snack. And I was like, honestly, say, it's a great snack when you're on the road. But when, but maybe my favorite fuck moment was when he confirms in the car.

right at the beginning. Yes, you were right. I was Regiment 22. When you were reading about my background, did you see anything about Helmand? And Daniel says, like the mayonnaise. And there's a, the way it's filmed, it's like kind of the side, you know, in between them in the car. And we just see Buck close his eyes. Like, and he wanted to be like, cool, blimey. But he's like, no, I haven't posh accent now. I don't say that anymore. Just incredible. Helmand, some real, uh, Real East goes shit there. Wild. No, Daniel, not the mayonnaise.

Afghanistan. Just an astonishing sequence. And then he gives him this actual speech right there, pivotal moments in a man's life. And we're seeing what that moment was for him with Kingpin and Wesley, etc. But the way that Daniel's like, Buck, am I in trouble?

I think the way that they have positioned this child inside of Kingpin's administration is frankly pretty weird. And so to see how young he is in that moment. And then it helps with, you know, He's like, not that you ever, like, stop lusting after people and making bad decisions as a result of it. But you're like, he threw a party and then BB got his place cleaned. And he was like, you're the best.

Let me, like, make you Julia Child's Cocoa Fah recipe. He used to give the gift that keeps on giving. I just love him. So Buck am I in trouble? You're like, yeah, he's like, he's scared. He's a kid and he's scared. I really am a fan of that relationship. I know you are.

It's great stuff. Okay. Speaking of Daniel, he's about to come up again in this next category. Most compelling ship, and I would like to clarify, lamentably it's something we have to clarify in season two of Derek Duffel born again that most compelling ship is a relationship and sex category and not about the Northern Star. The ship that has dominated so much. The plotline that keeps on floating on, yeah. What are you going with here? Is it Dex and Matt?

I texted you a picture of them really close to which. other and said kiss. Kiss. Or more importantly, is it Dex and Matt and Karen? Because when he shows up to the, to above Josie's bar, their super secret hideout,

their top secret hideout. I can't with this. And she's all sweaty from her, she's been punching the bag, she's been training, right? And then she gives him a real like, oh, Matt, what did you drag in? The guy who killed,

like, is Karen going to shoot Dex? It's possible. I mean, he's got a bullet in him already right now. I think she should fuck him instead. I think they should all have sex together. That's what I think. Why did you just look at the camera? I just feel really proud right now to be here with you, genuinely.

You made me like this. I was like, I mean, we're talking about the evolution inside of a relationship with Buck and Daniel, and now here it is with us. I support it. Karen was really, like, very clear with Matt. Benjamin Point Dexter killed Foggy and he can fucking die. So I think it's a risk for Matt to bring him there. And Karen has gotten more comfortable. with a gun? More comfortable than season

one when she just killed Wesley? Yeah. Now she's just like, you know, doing some acrobatics, like shooting people from underneath cars? Can you show me your acrobatic moves again? Karen. Boy, can she do it in a wig, you know? How many wigs can she do it in? I will also say

Buck and Heather. I'm weirdly rooting for them. I'm pretty into that, even though I'm also pretty invested in as few Heather scenes as possible. Sure, but if they're all with Buck Cashman. Like, how long are we going to watch with the muse mask and the nailing to the wall? Like, I can be watching Daniel Blake eating awesome. You're traumatized. We get it.

You have PTSD. I could be watching Buck Cashman purchase a bone saw. I could be watching decks feed every cat in New York City. Talk about a spinoff idea. Holy hell. My God. Geez. I would watch.

I would watch. Will Karen offer. to make him a banana milkshake at any point. Will he say to Karen, what do you famous for? Will he say? He said in the diner. With-wip. Doesn't everybody?

Okay, those are good picks. I like it. I, on the Karen front, am still shipping, of course, Karen and Frank. I will stay on this corner until there's just absolutely no reason to or hope left. But Matt. You just ship them because you want Karen away from Matt Murdoch. It's all of the above. A little column A, little column B.

I would like that, but all. Also, I would like to see Karen and Frank. Give it a go. I feel like Karen and Frank are like the hot dog. But getting Karen away from Matt is like all of the chili and the cheese and the onions and the relish and all the other like bullshit. Well, guess what? Delicious combo. There you go.

Delicious combo. In episode three, Matt, shirtless. Number of articles and featureettes and videos on the internet about Charlie Cox's workout routine. Check it out if you haven't. Matt Murdoch. Looking good. Staying fit. He's in the background shirtless. There's so many dumb tattoos they have to cover for Charlie Cox.

I'm always interested in the, you know, as a person who intends to be fully covered at some point and the ability to then cover them up. But the jealousy that's still at play here, you know, Karen's like, where's Frank? All this stuff is going on. You know, do you think that Kingpin got him? And Matt rightly, I think, says, I mean, obviously we know we've watched the trailer for the impending special. and we've seen the Punisher and the Spider-Man trailer, etc. But Matt's right, right? He's like, Kingpin would be thrown a parade and touting this from the street if he had killed Frank Castle.

But he's like, Karen's like, so what? He's just all this, he's just out there being him. Same as always. Hmm, I don't know. He's always been there for me. For us before. The correction of for me to for us in real time with your boyfriend when you're talking about another dude

who your heartbeat changed when you were last with. I was going to say, like, what do you think her heart was doing when she said that? I was actually a little bum that we didn't get one of those, like we switched to the... He's been listening to Heartbeats all season. He sure has, man. So I'm rooting for them still. I am pretty, as we've already talked about in cover, pretty into the BB Daniel thing.

So you're shipping Daniel and BB, not BB at a bone saw? Correct. I would like the bone saw and the shovel to stay far away from BB. One of the things that I have enjoyed about this is, like, it started off where, obviously they were both using each other, and they still are. And Daniel's just smitten and obsessed, yearning tendrils everywhere. And Bibi's like very uninterested. And I think that there is a real affection that has developed in both directions.

And so there's a complexity here that I'm really truly intrigued to see where that goes. I hope they're all okay. Sick as fight. I have a clue. It's great stuff. It's hot. This is really good. Dex listening to a disc man probably only so that they could do that, you know, is a pretty phenomenal moment.

Their fight there, though brief is great because they're both really good at throwing things. They're just throwing things at each other. It's great. I mean, Dex's whole thing in the diner probably is the real answer, but I just loved that CD moment so much. And then just like punching, just like screaming and punching each other in the face really hard. I thought that was, if you want to talk about sick, I thought that was a sick. Yeah, that's my pick too. And it edged out the diner for me because it gives us that like that great pairing of the choreography

and the theatrics of the fight and how they're using their respective powers, which is a really fun thing when Daredevil and Bullseye face off with a conversation. You know, all of the richness that were treated to in episode five stems from this like one good deed, what I did, what that woman had me do to your friend exchange that's in twice. with this conflict. So I really loved it. And then the neighbor's like, what are you doing to my Tony? And she's like, Smithers. And she's like, really tough.

Really tough. And he took her hostage. That was a rough one. Rough one for our guide decks. Very, very sad. That cat's name, by the way, is Mr. Miao-gy. Just- Fluffy boy.

Just need you to know that his name is Mr. Miao-Gy, and that's great. Sweet fluffy baby. My anti-sickest fight, you gave one. It was a great... Matt, hunting over and using the key card. I'm going to give you a bookend in that same stretch, that same sequence, which was, you know, because like we've got a new white tiger, right? So Angela shows up, she's got the duffel bag full of there. There's a walkie in there. Karen's like turning it on. Okay, they're getting an update.

This, Adam and I were cracking up when this happened. You know, there's the update. And then Karen's just like, hello? I don't know why it got me so much. I was like, guys, this is a really tense situation. We're on the clock here. Hello? Hello? Dex hurling a CD, it was not. Okay, we're down to our final two categories. What I will say, though, as much as I thought that freeing of all the people from the cages was clumsily done, swordsman with the rebar and using it as a sword was pretty great. That was good.

That was better than, you know, I liked when we caused the steam to cloud the room cover. But then guns are firing everywhere, and it's like, everyone's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Is that your most intriguing mystery? Most of the mystery. How is the AVTF better, worse than a stormtrooper at hitting a target?

Is that your question? Exactly. I think there are a couple picks here for the rest of the way. I don't have a ton here. I'm going to add a sort of like extra textual thing. Yeah. And say, have you been like, dialed into this watcher business? Yeah.

Okay, so like an episode for Windex and Matt go through the glass of the gym. There's a shot outside of the glass of the gym where you see two lights on the wall and the way that the glass is sort of shattered. Could conceivably, if you're trying very hard, look like the silhouette of the watcher. And then Brad Winterbaum, who's like head of Marvel TV, confirmed or just decided to go with what the internet was going with and was just sort of like he's always watching sort of thing. was like, that is the watcher. I'm of two minds, but I really think this could just be Brad being like, you guys think it's the watcher? Sure, it's the watcher.

Why not? It's really just two lights and some broken glass, but sure, whatever you need. But like, what if it is? Yeah. And what if the grand design is nothing to do with the Catholic God and has everything to do with the watcher? Is this, you know, is Vanessa's death? Vanessa. Is Vanessa's death something worth watching in every single universe, probably?

I mean, what is Wilson about to do now? Nothing good. Let's go back to Spider-Verse and answer that question, right? So, yeah, I'm interested in that. And I think also pairing something that grand and cosmic and sprawling in Marvel, where one of our most street-level tales is compelling. Relatedly, on the street-level front, I remain intrigued by the mystery of when Jessica Jones will be entering this story.

I thought that would happen by now. I have to be honest. I did have that spoiled for me. Oh, you know when it's coming? Yeah. Okay, I don't. I really hope it's soon. And I had that spoiled for me at the beginning of this season.

Someone I know who had watched it all was like, it's not until this. And I was just like, that is a little late. Oh, boy. Yeah. I think it's overdue and I'm ready. That said, it does really feel like this episode, episode five was a transition and pivot point in the story. So maybe now, maybe it's next week, maybe now. That would be great.

I guess we already talked about the like is, you know, is there a chance that Daniel is going to like actually be revealed to be King Ben's Sun or something or is the idea of the air more spiritual? Yes. I guess the other thing just because it's frankly I think notable that he has not come up at all today. Are they going to like land anything with Mr. Charles? That's a little bit of a letdown. Yeah, that's not how I would use Matthew a little bit of personally. Yeah. Only two episodes. Obviously we talked about one of them already. episode four, the second appearance,

which got off to a great start because he's just like... There. There and then monologuing about wombat shit being square? Which was like... Fun fact. Didn't know. Wow. You really do learn something new. Just talking about Lego bricks in order to like...

You bring up a Lego, you have my attention. You know that. It's a thing you know. But like, you know, this kind of dick measuring power contest. Oh, you break out your guy with the gun. I'll break out my guys with the gun. You know, we're both peekers. cocking, oh, your guy with the gun, got my guys with the guns. Where's it going?

And then he's like, fuck. That's how he buttons that scene, right? Or shit. He's not, like, he just swears. Yeah. I don't know. On behalf of the agency. Is it actually?

Is there enough time for that to be answered in a satisfying way? Is that the most intriguing mystery, or is it just a mystery that's here that you're like, what's going on there? I think the most intriguing mystery is why they haven't done more with Mr. Charles, honestly. Speaking of intrigue. There was only one way to end today's podcast. And it is what I think, not to go full Jeff Prob's blood moon, it'll be.

The game will never be the same. Ever until next week will we do a double elimination. Way better twist. Way better. Very good. My God. Without the dumb name. Might be the biggest best Whigwatch TM with Joanna Robinson TM in the history of wigwatch.

Let me tell you behind the scenes. I am not watching Daredevil, like, it is not a point of viewing for me. I am not, like, you know, queuing up the Disney Plus and watching it immediately. Unlike Survivor. Unless Survivor. Which we are watching that way. Well, if I don't watch it immediately. Yes, I can't risk the spoilers.

On Paramount Plus, I don't, because I don't, anyway, I have to watch it live or else I can't watch it until the next day. And if I can't watch it until the next day, then I'm going to get spoiled. So. Okay. But so people are. are like adding me on Twitter. About the wigs. Well, last week it was like,

your guy, texts, you're a guy, texts, you're like, never have I received so many messages from people being like, surely, Joanna is at home crying and orgasming, watching episode four of Daredevil. No, but like, you know, that's what people thought. And I was like, wow, I guess I got to watch episode four of Daredevil. And then this week it was like, the wigs, the wigs, the wigs. And then like, you watched it before I did and you were texting me about the wigs.

And then I thought I knew what they were. Because I saw Foggy. First I fucking saw Vanessa. Oh my God. Her like crunchy waves. And then I saw Foggy and Matt. Matt's like the plastic sort of like Eddie Munson Dracula like widows peak that they gave him with his floppy 90s hair is atrocious. Really?

The mat wig was very like plastic Lego hair kind of. It was really tough. Fogies was like not too. The hairline was bad. texture was good. I thought they like matched I could kind of roll with that one. But what we're about to show you is I

I was live texting you and I was like I've seen all the bad wigs and you're like baby you have not seen nothing yet. You're like get an ice pack ready. Get your fainting couch ready. You will be crying in orgasm in mere seconds. Can we see it? Long time.

Looking good, Wes. Oh my God. I just like I hope we need a revolve, but oh, my fucking God. What has happened? And I was telling you, I sent you a photo. I was like, this is like, Sebastian Stan, Winter Soldier, specifically in Civil War when his arm got too big for his, they had to give him a new metal arm because Sebastian, oops, got too swole. He's wearing like five Henleys, and he's got the ball cap and the long bucky hair. Like, that's kind of the look they're going for, but like, but oops, we went to Spirit Halloween store instead.

And this is the wig we found. It, like, they put a hat on that wig and it didn't help. That's what you don't have is such a bad wig. Because, like, in Nelson v. Murdoch, yes. In order to do flashback foggy college hair, that's right. They put a beanie on that shit. They did. And they needed to, but it worked.

The beanie plus the shaggy long hair. Like, sometimes a hat can really help sell. Yeah. This is just highlighting what is wrong here with this particular wig. It is very bad business. Absolutely befuddling. Can I tell you it's not the worst wig. seen this week?

What was the worst? I have another visual. What was the worst? I have another visual for you. Carlos, can you show us this next visual, please? Have you seen the Disneyland Han Solo? I did see this. I did see this.

I love and respect to this guy. It's not his fault. It's not his fault. But I wanted you, number one, Harrison Ford expert, to weigh in on Timu Han Solo, who is walking around Galaxy's Edge right now. Let me throw this out there. Yeah. Hashtag make solo two happen.

Have we solved it? With that guy in that wig? I don't mind it. Okay, so you're coming out in favor of that wig. Well, I think it's more that I know that if I confronted that in the wild in person, I would be like, I would have basically emptied my bank account on building a custom droid and a custom lightsaber. I would have one of the worst but most, like, satisfying and well-earned stomach aches of my life. life from the blue and green milk. And am I just recounting an actual experience that I had there a few years ago?

With the other Ringerverse team, with the rest of the Ringervist team. I am. And it was a great night and I can't wait to go back. So you'd be like almost, you'd be sweating, broke, vomiting. The guts would be bubbling, crying and coming. Exactly. And then you would behold that vision and you would say, looks about right. I'm in.

I'm in. All right. Galaxy's Edge Han Solo Harrison Ford. Bring us back. Bring us back. Mallory says you can send her a drink at the bar anytime. Exactly. You're a sports fan.

You know, you brought up the pitch clock on a recent episode of House of R. Everybody was talking about it. So how many times have you seen somebody tell astrate a play? Like, are you familiar with, you know, your... Say telestrade? Using the telestrade, you break out the, you know, the, oh, I'm going to circle this with yellow. I'm going to scheme up a play. Are you speaking of when filmmakers are on that Vanity Fair thing and they break down their shots?

There you go. I tell us straight. Is that what it's called? I think we should provide you with the tech to start doing this for wig watch. To tell us straight at wig watch? Like, where should the hairline be? Where did it go wrong? We need to kit you out so that you can help everybody understand where they have aired.

Yeah, I would love to. And I will say there are some fine people doing great work on TikTok and Instagram Reels on the wigwatch be. Like there are people who are breaking it down to a science. But like sometimes you can like literally see the lace. That's the problem with poor Steve Rogers often. Yeah. And sometimes the most of the times the hair line is too dense. So it just looks like a straight to your Lego point.

If you look at Matt Murdoch, it's just a V of darkness. There's no like individual strands of anything. Something that you can do with a wig to make it look more realistic is you can pluck some of the hair. out of the front piece to sort of like give you individual hairs. But that's only if you have money, time, and it's not made of plastic. And I cannot guarantee you that Charlie Cox's flashback wig was not made out of plastic. It was- It looked terrible.

Horrible. Terrible. Well, at least we got the footstuff line. Marvel, I know that you're cutting a lot of corners these days. There have been layoffs. I want to respect that. Invest in the wigs. Invest in the wigs.

if not Karen's, like, cloak and dagger wigs, then at the very least, your own goddamn flashback wigs. Or guess what? Buck Cashman didn't even need a flashback wig. That's what, like, makes me absolutely bananas. Because Foggy did, and Matt did, because we know what their hair looked like. But Buck Cashman could have looked like anything

in his Chim-Chim-Chiru, like, street-tuff phase. Should they have just done on Buzzcut? They should have just given him, if they're going to give him the Dick Van Dyke accent, just give him the flag cap. You know what I mean? Like, just do that. There was no cause for that atrocity on that handsome man's head.

So do you think we get the-Rachel? They gave him like shaggy Rachel layers. That is insane work. Tragic. I think we're going to get more. Buck flashbacks, right? I mean, like lifted the mini blinds, yeah, looked out. He's like talking about how everything changed, Kingpin changed his life in this moment.

It's like, well, let's see how this all concluded. You think he's going to kill that man? He's Buck Cashman. Whatever his name is something, McCoy, Connor McCoy. Logan McCoy. Lionel, who then started going by Ray. Hank McCoy. Hank McCoy, exactly.

Peter Cloppy. Oh, God. What a wig watch. What a wig watch it was. Daredevil born again. I can't believe you're coming out in favor of that Galaxy's Edge Honsolo. I cannot believe that.

No one respects. the sexual allure of Harrison Ford more than you and you were like, that's fine. No, you know my actual take on this. What does everybody think they're doing trying to have anybody in the world other than Harrison Ford be Han Solo? Like, this is not a fair position to put anybody. It's not fair. So make a whole, like it wasn't fair to Alden. It's not fair to that poor guy.

Has been a farce this entire time. No, I think I, listen, I watch shrinking. mockery and a sham. I think Harrison Ford is up for it. He did it already. And then he's like, kill me, please. Yeah, but now he's back. You know, he's back.

Oh, like Force Ghost solo? We can do anything we want. Okay. Any point in the timeline. Okay, so in Steven Soderberg's Ben Solo movie. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Which I want to have happened.

Me too. Get shrinking era Harrison Ford. Yes. Let's get Paul with his. his fun dip and his hats right off of the shrinking bench back into. Were you stressed that you might leave at the end of the season of shrinking? Yes, but also no, because I feel like it's so clear that what's happening with Harrison Ford on shrinking is like everybody who is involved with shrinking's favorite thing about making shrinking. Correct.

So it doesn't feel like there's a way to do that without him. However long the time jump is. No, Bill has said like the whole. Yeah. The whole cast is coming back. Don't worry, we got Harrison Ford. Okay. That has been our check-in on Survivor.

I'm not hosting this episode, but our checking on Survivor and shrinking and also Daredevil. We did it. We did it. Only what? Three episodes left, right? Yeah. Maybe we'll check in again at the end. Depends?

Guess what? Disney? Give us more decks and I will give you more podcasts. That's a promise from meeting you. I think that's completely fair. Thank you. Thank you to Carlos Chiroboga. Scott Lee.

Jacob helping out again today here at the old Sycamore Studios. Or Juno Ramga Powell, as always. Jomea Denneron, as always, we will see you next week. Perhaps we will see you checking out wigs at Galaxy's Edge. Until then, enjoy your banana milkshakes. Enjoy crying and coming at home. You can't reason with the sun. Trust us.

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