Season 1 review: Summary: Worth watching, even if for the action fight scenes alone. I look forward to season 2. But the boring plot & slow pace hurt it.

Action: I love watching on screen martial arts fight scenes. Nothing's more satisfying than watching a cool fight. I can happily say that these fight scenes were pretty good. The couple of continuous non-stop camera shots were the big highlights.

Violence: There are a few extreme moments. Can reach cringe-worthy levels at times. If you don't like gory scenes, look away. I personally am not bothered by these scenes, but people who don't like it should be warned.

Plot: Unfortunately, the season 1 plot was boring. The bad guys' big plot was some scheme involving taking control of some New York City real estate, about as bland a topic as it gets. At some point I began to tune-out all the excessive plot details of what fake real estate company the villains were illegally moving their money into or whatever they were up to, because whatever they were up to just wasn't very interesting. You can argue that the real plot was the Fisk rising up and taking control of the New York criminal underworld, but then why even bother the audience with all the boring little details about fake real estate deals and so on? I can only hope the season 2 plot gets better.

Pacing: I have another major complaint and that's that the show slowed to a snail's pace too many times. Too many scenes were just people standing around, with serious faces, just talking talking talking talking and talking. The countless Foggy & Karen scenes, in particular, got a bit excruciating at times. For example, one of the early episodes wasted half its run-time on just Foggy & Karen getting drunk at the bar, and then walking through town drunk, and then looking for Matt drunk, and then knocking on Matt's apartment door drunk to find that he wasn't home. It doesn't help that the plot unravels slowly; so for at least the first half of the season, we usually have no idea what a lot of the long talking scenes were even about. The scenes with the bad guys all standing around vaguely discussing their plans were particularly guilty of not letting the viewer have any clue what they were even discussing. I found myself frequently wondering: When are they just going to get on with the next action scene already?

Best character: The character of Fisk is very interesting. I'm the most familiar with Fisk from the 90s Spider-Man animated series, where he was a well spoken genius. The Fisk in this show, however, was nothing like that. In this version, he has an almost child-like personality, complete with temper tantrums and a poor ability at dealing with other people, which was weird, but different. Even though he's clearly the bad guy, the show manages to get us to kinda root for him. Also, the actor definitely looks the part, which is a big plus for Marvel fans like me who are already familiar with the character, but I just wish they gave him his classic white suit-look.

Worst character: Foggy Nelson gets pretty obnoxious in this. Here's where the much derided (perhaps overly so) Daredevil (2003) movie actually did it so much better. The movie's Foggy was funny and likable. This show's version is an annoying loser who makes dumb comments all the time and reacts to everything in the wrong way. The show clearly does not want the viewers to like him, so why does he get to take up so much screen time? I dare you to watch this show without wanting to slap this guy for being so annoying.