The Reel Rejects - DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Episode 5 REVIEW!! Marvel Studios Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:02 More on them in just a bit. So, ladies and gentlemen, let's kick these off. D.D. Born again. Three, two, Oudo. Bravo. Damn. Bravo, everyone. Well, guys, first off.

Starting point is 00:01:25 Prepper. I'm sure he had a fun job with this one, editing it down. I hope it's good. I hope people enjoyed. If he didn't, it has nothing to do with the hosts. It's only the editors. Yeah. Whatever you can do. True. It's all blame. Do it. Hey, we watched a Daredevil episode of four? Yeah, born and four. No, five. Five, five. Five. Five. Five. Question of morning of five and five. and it is

Starting point is 00:01:54 common courtesy for the one leading to not go first. Fine. Coy. Yay! You gave me the episode at the least comic references

Starting point is 00:02:04 because it felt like a one shot so I'd talk the least. This was really fun for me as a fan of long-form serialized comic books. They don't often give the TV shows a chance to feel like an issue. A lot of them always feel like

Starting point is 00:02:17 the part of a graphic novel or part of a greater overarching story, but some of the best comic books, books are, you know, one issue. Like, the kid who collects Spider-Man is talked about all the time. That's one issue. No one can stop the juggernaut. There's only two issues.

Starting point is 00:02:29 Like, these little mini-archs are really important, but there's also really fun single issues where you get a sense of the character and the character can grow, and you can also incorporate other supporting characters that can just be world-building. And this feels like that to me. This feels like they were able to incorporate, you know, like teasing the boss, and that is able to grow the overall narrative. They were able to bring in, you know, a fun cameo of a character from another comment. book in this case Kamala Khan's father but overall this felt like an issue this felt like a one

Starting point is 00:02:57 issue experience of daredevil and i really love that we got to see all of the matt murdock elements without him actually suiting up but we still got the cheekiness of the red mask being the one he happened to steal we got like the fun of it being very north in new york obviously the st patty's day and irish flavor um you know matt murdock is canonically irish and it's something that i enjoy so it was really cool to see them kind of lean into that here and play into you know the holiday. So to me, this felt like Greg's favorite city in New York getting to flex a little bit while also

Starting point is 00:03:27 feeling like a single issue. So I had a lot of fun with this one. This is what I thought the show would feel like in its first iterations announcement. And at one point, I think you even said, like I wonder if this was the first, if there's been an episode yet that feels like it was probably from the first take on the show, it's this one. And

Starting point is 00:03:43 that's a praise because I'm enjoying the hell out of the traditional show. We're getting that's a blend of Netflix and Disney Plus, but this feels like when they said like lawyer comedy what that might have been um so that just shows the power daredevil you can have the mark wade run feel very different than the charles soul run very different zadarski run very different from frank miller and uh it's still authentic to daredevil and charlie cox gets them in all the different flavors just like a nice piece of candy that man is what a good

Starting point is 00:04:11 episode yeah i thought it was great uh i felt like this out of any other episode could have been like one of those marvels presidential presentations yeah they do on on the same patrick's day episode Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I have a lot of fun with it. You get to see these different flavors of Charlie Cox playing Matt Murdoch, but also entertaining the audience with just the bottle of nature episode of what this was, but getting to see a different character from a different tone. We've seen in a couple different tones at this point with Miss Marvel,

Starting point is 00:04:40 with The Marvels, play in a more grounded daredevil type of environment without compromising the feel of who that character is within this new setting. I thought that was very impressive. I liked seeing Charlie Cox feel in demand and in control with an episode that is less focused on the heightened nature of what Daredevil can be. Like I feel like this episode, with the exception of like the gears turning was very CGI minimal, but still very effective in playing a part in this larger narrative. So it can be viewed on its own. Like you could show somebody this episode without any other episode not have it spoil anything. and just be standalone, but also at the end

Starting point is 00:05:24 or with the stuff that Daredevil is listening to does play into that larger thing of, okay, there is a threat that I'm unaware of until this moment, and now this gives me a reason to now don the mask again to investigate. This seems like something that I have to do outside of the law. At least this is what it felt like it was teasing to me.

Starting point is 00:05:41 So I'm excited to see how the implications and effects of this episode bring him closer to donning the suit again. Also in that, I feel, felt it started to hit me in the last episode that they started to show off with that bangor of action scene with him in bull's eye because they knew they weren't going to have a lot of daredevil in these first five episodes that they needed to come out strong like this mccu daredevil so and i remember this being um or at least when they were talking about the

Starting point is 00:06:11 original series version of this that the dare will wasn't even going to show up in the first four episodes and largely for the most part that's true i was under the misconception that they film six episodes scrapped it and filmed everything from new, but what they actually did was film three new episodes and then repurposed the stuff that they had shot. And I felt like that was the most evident within this episode.

Starting point is 00:06:31 So I was like, okay, I'm not mad at it. I feel like they found an interesting way to make Daredevil still compelling without actually having him in the suit. So by the time we do get him in the suit, it's almost that much more rewarding. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:44 I'm with you. This was fun. Yeah, Andrew. Thank you, Ern. Yeah, no, I really... Just went for it. Yeah, go for it. No, sure.

Starting point is 00:06:54 I feel great. This was an awesome episode. Incredibly pace that, like I said, right when I did it was the quickest 37, 40 minutes of my life. I love a good heist in films, TV shows, and I thought this really exemplified why I love it. You got all these different point of views from the cops, from the robbers, from Matt. And I think this really shows, too, why Matt and Wilson. and Fisk are really the same in terms of they are master strategist when it comes to whatever it is they are doing. So obviously we talked about, you know, when it came to the

Starting point is 00:07:30 courtroom, how Matt is, you know, he's just, he's just a genius when it comes to as a lawyer. But now, like, seeing from this point of view, there were different ways he could have approached it, but then going into the bank, like just playing off the standoffish blind man and, you know, playing dumb there. And again, just biting his time. making these guys, as he said, think they're in control. I just, I love that perspective from Matt. Just, again, he was playing 40 chess the entire time while they were playing checkers. I just, that's why I freaking love Matt Murdoch so much.

Starting point is 00:08:02 It was just a fascinating way. And I love also, too, again, I'm going to be honest. I have not watched Miss Marvel. I have not seen the Marvels, actually, one of the rare MCU films I have not seen. So I didn't have that instant connection with the father there, but that was really cool. And that actually makes me want to watch now. that show in that movie

Starting point is 00:08:21 but that was really cool to see the inclusion there but yeah again I thought this was really cool to see also as well literally we were on one location in the entire episode I thought that was really ambitious in its own right just staying in one location gave a very tense and claustrophobic feel

Starting point is 00:08:38 obviously you feel scared for the hostages the entire time but also at the same point you know Matt is in complete control so you know that at a certain point that well someone could die here or there that Matt again is at a point where he is not going to let anything happen to anyone because he knows what the heck he's doing he's been in these situations before but again I thought also too it's fascinating too watching Matt because he doesn't want to awaken the devil yet and you know watching that line holding like okay I got to be

Starting point is 00:09:08 really in control and smart here too because there's also there's camera oh I guess they cut the cameras but there's people there's witnesses here so I got to be really strategic and smart here I just thought it was so brilliantly written. I thought the cinematography was so well informing us of the audience, again, just how claustrophobic of a feel it was, but also giving us that exciting feel, too, of an action piece as well. But I just, I love this episode. It was just so much fun while also feeling dramatic at times.

Starting point is 00:09:37 You know, you feel scared for that couple when they were begging for their lives, too. So there was just a lot of different tones that I thought this episode, rather, was really hitting on. and really appreciate this episode so much. And again, Charlie Cox, the mannerisms, the visual narration that he hits with his body language, the tics he does. Like, this man is just gold. I really love watching him so much as Matt Murdoch.

Starting point is 00:10:00 He is just such perfect casting. Love him so much. Well said, man. Well said. All three of you guys. Bravo. Bravo on everyone's talking. We kept it tight.

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Starting point is 00:11:43 Gave me seven straight minutes. it's Greg's turn it's only two and a half for you guys and uh anyone need a blanket a pillow just tuck in some cooking some milk anyone no we're good i'm just in uh yeah no i agree with what everyone said and there's some stuff i have a slight different opinion on and there's like one little criticism about the show that i kind of feel like sort of remains but uh i'm kind of waiting until the final episode to see how it pans out because there's been stuff here there I'm like I felt strongly about it and then it's sort of evolved and changed and some stuff has gone up so I might just I won't harp on it too much but the part that I

Starting point is 00:12:27 really I actually don't feel like I think this is one of the best kind of episodics because it still feels like it's further developing the character narrative and art of Matt Murdoch as much as it can seem like it might be a repurposed thing there's something kind of clever in the way it's actually captured one of the biggest episodes of Breaking Bad is an episode called The Fly which is just like him and Jesse in this walk in this one room trying to kill

Starting point is 00:12:54 a fly for an hour and it might just seem like a cool yeah Ryan Johnson might seem like a cool one off bottle episode but it's one of the most it's a super important episode on face value and for this one I would say that's something kind of similar like this is the first time he is

Starting point is 00:13:10 doing something actually really heroic yeah when he like messed up those cops that wasn't the same kind of thing he was you know saving his own life at that point he saved that guy uh for a case but this is one where he could have avoided the situation he went back in he made the call to be a hero we saw in the first episode when he's looking up at fisk he can hear stuff going down but he's kind of ignoring it and i'm sure he's ignored a lot in the time he hasn't been daredevil this is the first time he's going in he's like i'm going to kick some ass and i i'm not really like ever bothered by the fact that we haven't seen the

Starting point is 00:13:44 weirdly enough because Matt Murdoch is my favorite character in the MCU and him and Daredevil are one giant package to me and where I'm like no this to me I feel like even though he's not wearing the suit I feel like I'm watching Daredevil sure he can do a little bit more different things in terms of going head on because it doesn't have to disguise himself but I feel like I'm still watching Daredevil and there's something kind of extra exciting it's kind of like the benefit in ironman three when you see Tony start doing some shit without the suit and this is what I feel like we're with him like he doesn't that's the thing is he doesn't need the suit like mad doesn't need the suit to do most of the things he does and like the stealth fight i thought was so cool in the tone of how it's like this bombardment of music and it's like he has to be super duper quiet and for some reason that one and he has to keep silencing him i thought that was a cool part of the fight where he can't let him yell he can't let him scream so he has to keep putting down on his throat um and then of course the brutality of of of the next moment uh as well and like how we talked about in here uh with New York City constantly being like this development of a character. New York really is a character

Starting point is 00:14:50 here and the people, the community is a character right down to the way the hostage situation was going down. They felt like a real character. And so I love watching Daredevil rising and that starts first with Matt rising, not with him putting on the suit. It's him as Matt Murdoch coming to terms with it. And the way this was shot, there's so much of the time that it's breaking perspective from Matt but then I'm reminded when I'm watching like oh but Matt can hear everything so you'll have like several minutes where it's just like the negotiator and Matt and the negotiator and the bad guy talking with each other and Matt you're not cutting to Matt but oh Matt can hear all this going down so this whole thing is strangely from his perspective

Starting point is 00:15:34 the entire time and the uh the confident calculation but the the tension that it's wrapped in, I think is so cool. I guess the one part of the world of Darede... It dawned on me in this episode that I might feel a little bit differently about by the time we get to the finale is I do kind of

Starting point is 00:15:56 part of the way the world was established in the Netflix world and the Daredevil world especially was the way it's lit and this is lit kind of more clean MCU standard with like some hyper stylization in the camera work but not really the lighting. The lighting is

Starting point is 00:16:12 very much the MCU kind of neutral blue lighting where there's like a lot of like darker greenish red color contrast in the in the original show and I do kind of miss that and then also the action scenes are a lot more like crazy handheld and a lot of cutting and editing and I miss a little bit more of that fluidity that being said the emotion is still there that's the thing that's the like the emotion even in the fight of in the street i'm like do i miss a little bit more the camera work from prior yeah but in terms of the uh freneticness of the situation yeah it's still very much applicable in the moment um this i love this episode and this to me was my favorite of the matt murdock um this is my favorite matt murdock uh i don't

Starting point is 00:17:04 know if it's my favorite episode this season so far but my favorite one of matt murdoch and why do you think they chose with yusuf specifically because i was wondering that i was thinking that as we were watching. Before we, like, wrap this up. Like, because when we did do, uh, coin I did Miss Marvel, the final episode,

Starting point is 00:17:18 that's when you had all the predictions about Wilson Fist coming in with the registration act and everything. I do. And now they're bringing in the Miss Marvel stuff. Yeah. I think it's because Miss Marvel, to me, represents the Silver Age Spider-Man sensibility.

Starting point is 00:17:31 There is a very, there's a kinship. And I'm wondering if Miss Marvel is going to be the stand-in for Spider-Man in Daredevil in some way, whether it's season two or this season. I could see that fun, self-aware, protector of their city, you know, kind of uses humor as a defense mechanism like that. If they can't use live-action Spider-Man, maybe they use Kamala Khan, because she is very much a Silver Age Spider-Man stand-in as a character.

Starting point is 00:17:57 The reason I called it on that show is because they made her a mutant, and I said you need a world that hates and fears them in order to have things in the way I would do that as the Registration Act by doing Mayor Fisk. And now we're doing it. So it could be correlation or causation. It could be like the character type being similar, Or it could be because they want to tie in her mutanthood to Daredevil, and Daredevil is going to be a lawyer that represents.

Starting point is 00:18:17 So I could see Daredevil representing Kamala for Kamala's law and then him knowing her father and having an emotional investment in it. I could see him wanting to defend Kamala, her getting en masse, and then Yusuf being like the father of the defendant and him having even more emotional investment. It could also be a scene like where they go to Jersey City. Like Matt could become the Wong of the street level stuff where he just pops up all the time.

Starting point is 00:18:39 Yeah. Also, we just don't have a lot of street level stuff in the MCU. that's already established outside of Miss Marvel and Spider-Man. You can't really use Spider-Man on TV level, so it might as well be someone who's so close to Manhattan, even though she's in Jersey City. We let Greg talk six and a half of his seven minutes. Now it's in an hour, and now he's like, I'm out.

Starting point is 00:18:57 I'm sorry we stole your 30 seconds, Greg. Hawkeye. Oh, yeah, Hawke. But no, he's in Midwest. He just came to New York for his little trip. Yeah. He's out there. Hey, Bishop.

Starting point is 00:19:07 She's somewhere. She's in West Coast Avenger. She's with Kamala right now. Yeah. We saw it. Yeah, they're doing something. And Spider-Man can't be in it because of illegal. Kamala Khan!

Starting point is 00:19:18 Kamala Khan makes sense. I did like... You haven't seen Miss Marvel yet, have you? I haven't seen Miss Marvel or the Marvels. That's good. I'll watch the Marvels first. I love that she has her own little funco pop. I think that's hilarious.

Starting point is 00:19:29 I really did think that was... All of us did, that was Yuri Watanabi, and we had, like... Sent everybody, but we all lead in. She had the leather jacket and all that. I don't know if legal rights... Yeah, I don't know. It's a Spider-Man. It's a Sony character specifically.

Starting point is 00:19:44 It's a game character. Okay. So this episode made me want a Daredevil game. So bad. Yeah, dude. But she had that. She had that energy. I wish it was Tara, like the voice actress of her.

Starting point is 00:19:54 She's fantastic. That's Yuri's real wife. Yeah. I loved it, man. I thought that was great other than some stuff that I missed from the old a little bit. I think this was like, I am loving the ride. It's like the dark night rises, but in a season. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:10 If I could only change. or an enhance one thing. I think that they tease the idea of the hostages being like a microcosm of New York. I feel like if we would have made that need a little bit stronger for him to come into being a hero and seeing like how the city in this context reacts to him, I think that would have enhanced his desire to return.

Starting point is 00:20:30 But I think even the fact that he already has this innate heroism to finally take a step in that direction, act after four episodes of not really doing so. Yeah, it just, nothing wrong, per se. but just like to enhance that a little bit to make that connection stronger but sure that's pretty much it any last thoughts Andrew no just really enjoyed it looking forward to the next one and maybe getting some frank castle daredevil adventures hopefully he might be the third act I don't know we'll see I can see because I think the third act is gonna be very costume heavy for the well I wish the because it wasn't a leak it was like an actual set photo that they put out there with dare dope I don't want to talk about it because no one's seen it um but yeah I'm saying I know just talking about yeah but it's like I kind of wish they didn't because now I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like I'm like well he's coming back again right well thank you guys so much for being here of course

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The Reel Rejects - DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Episode 5 REVIEW!! Marvel Studios Breakdown & Review

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