“the “Daredevil: Born Again” premiere scored 7.5 million views globally in its first five days of streaming on Disney+”
Hmmm…
“According to reports, Agatha All Along garnered roughly 9.3 million viewers in its first 7 days of becoming available on the streaming platform. On the other hand, The Penguin gathered 5.3 million viewers in its first 4 days. However, the caveat is that the latter’s show’s numbers are restricted to the US while the former’s viewership is global.”
“Biggest premier of 2025” being the key distinction. As in “Disney’s only new streaming content since January 1st is the biggest release all year”
Kinda lame how Agatha outperformed it, there wasn’t anything remarkable about it.
Strong disagree, Agatha All Along is probably my second favorite MCU show just behind WandaVision.
Now that is comparing the complete Agatha All Along to other completed shows. I hope Daredevil Born Again will beat that, because that would make for an amazing show. I expect it won’t, just because of how much I enjoyed Agatha.
Agatha for me had a great story, great characters, great mystery and it all fit together perfectly.
I enjoyed Agatha a lot but I think it was very much geared towards a certain demographic that would have watched anything with Wiccan in it
That and the conventional wisdom at the time was how awful Agatha did.
This show doesn’t understand why people liked the Netflix Daredevil.
It’s only been two episodes, I’m withholding my judgement so far. But what do you think is the big thing they miss?
Pacing and scope. If you’re going to drop the audience multiple years into the future, you should let them discover what’s changed over time gradually. Don’t, for instance, have them attend a retirement party and start killing characters. We shouldn’t have seen Daredevil until the third or fourth episode. Matt apparently gave up being DD, but he’s still wearing all that shit under his I’m Going to A Party clothes.
I read somewhere that the original scripts had Matt not wear the costume for 4 episodes, only being shown as lawyer until then. Marvel allegedly decided that this would alienate audiences and had them re-write it to show Daredevil in action in episode 1.
Wow that sucks because the fight scene in Episode one, where they roll a smoke grenade into the room (probably so you can’t see how older and slower Charlie Cox got) and keep the camera off DD, was particularly bad. And then the CGI … Just woof all around.
I don’t have Disney+ so haven’t seen the new show. I adored the Netflix show. Can you explain what you mean? I may watch the new one eventually, but I am curious.
The grit is gone.
