8.6/10 The first child of the Netflix/Marvel partnership is here and we have all grown to love it.Daredevil tells the story of the blind lawyer Matt Murdock,who can't filter out the noise of misery and suffering in Hell's Kitchen/New York.With the law unable to cease crime on its own,he decides to take the matter into his own hands.Season one manages to right all the wrongs that Ben Affleck's version of the character has done.Daredevil holds no punches,both figuratively and literally,with presenting a story full of blood,violence and brutality.This is not your usual Marvel Movie with a longer runtime. This is a showcase of a cruel,bloodstained city struggling to survive and how that affects and shapes its citizens.Some might put up with it,barely scraping by.Others might hate its guts and try to burn it to the ground.And finally,the "main characters" type of people that see hope in it,despite it being a wreck.What makes this show outstanding is the substantial amount of humanity present in every character,besides being a so-called superhero show.Each street thug feels like a realistic character, and all this is accomplished through subtle acts and actions.The heroes are not over-competent ego-maniacs with chins carved from stone and the villains are not twirling their mustaches and looking at the camera maliciously.Behind their personas of urban mythical creatures,both the protagonist and the antagonist are just troubled people.One wears a metaphorical mask,the other a quite literal one.The actors are spectacular,with Charlie Cox showing a bright future in acting and Vincent D'Onofrio delivering probably the best performance of his life.The sidekicks are genuinely charming and you can't help but love them. Elden Henson is absolutely hilarious as Foggy and Deborah Ann Woll is adorable as the stubborn Karen Page.What caught me off guard is how much i sympathized with the villains. You can understand why they are doing what they are doing and everyone has his own agenda.The City of New York deserves an Emmy on its own.This is one of the best cases of a city feeling like a real,fleshed-out character. Sometimes the pacing was a bit too slow for my liking,but overall the payoff was worth it in the end.Both the vigilante and the lawyer parts were magnificent and the show delivers strong monologues that send chills down your spine.

Conclusion: Marvel successfully creates a lawyer-crime drama ,which happens to contain the superhero Daredevil.The show serves as a brilliant showcase to the darkness in the minds of the people and manages to show us that every devil has a human side to him.And if that deep mumbo jumbo ain't your thing,dontcha worry,there are flipping ninja fights to scratch your occasional ninja fight itch.My main complaint is that some episodes dragged a bit,but you won't lose interest,the storyline is just the right amount of gripping.