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Watched first ep. If you've watched Hawkeye then you've already seen about 30% of this episode, but man once things do get going.... I will never not be a complete sucker for long take scenes.
 

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Finished this up last night. This show started out so great and then kinda fizzled out near the end. But I was watching one of the SC vids, and it was mentioned that this season was SUPPOSED to be 6 episodes instead of 5, and somewhere along the line the budget got massively cut, and you can definitely tell in the last couple episodes. Overall tho I did enjoy this show, and god Vincent D'Onofrio was just born to play Kingpin. Absolutely fantastic from him so I'm all for any show that puts him on the screen more. This was definitely more like the netflix marvel shows and I loved the overall grittiness of it, but all that hype of it being this big bad TV-MA rated mature viewing show, was pretty much just that, hype.

Also props to the sound design, and the way they'd bring you into Maya's head at certain points so you could "hear" things from her perspective.

TLDR: Wasn't horrible but could have been better.
 

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I like that actor, he's been in tons of stuff. But yeah, very underutilized in this show, and, couldn't understand WTF he was saying half the time :ROFLMAO:
 

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I watched the first 3 episodes last night and will finish up the series some time this week. For having zero interest in the character, it was better than I expected. The 2 mins of Daredevil was awesome. It definitely has an old school Netflix Marvel vibe. More so than Iron Fist. Love seen Kingpin back too. We need another Daredevil season.
 

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Kingpin is a great character. Especially how he's played by D'onofrio. Since it was TV-MA I had hoped there would be more gangster-type stuff. But seems it was MA because they wanted to add blood to the scenes. Maybe since they show was shortened by at least one episode, maybe we lost some gangster scenes so they had time to show about the history of the Choctaw?

I didn't like they gave her "powers". But again, going with the lore of the Choctaw.

I am mixed on her. She has a great backstory. She is excellent in hand-to-hand combat (the fighting scenes were excellent). She could be fun to watch in future shows and movies. As long as they don't drag out her character arch. Eventually, it would be cool to see that she knows who she is and moves towards her goals. Even if it is just stopping Kingpin and/or forcefully taking over his business.
 

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