The first season hooked me. The characters were nuanced. The good weren't entirely angelic and the bad weren't entirely demonic. The acting was better than passable and Vincent D'Onofrio made a great central character baddie. Some rough spots but -hey, overall substantively above the usual genre fare.

Sad to say the second season started well and rapidly devolved into too many side plots, too soon character intros, too many knotty unspoken, unspeakable and unresolvable secrets between the characters. Everybody but everybody is hiding some world shattering nugget of suffering and sinister past linkages. Daredevil teeters on the line of becoming a ridiculous cartoon and a sometimes understandable/believable character. On one hand he is an exceedingly brilliant lawyer, on the other just too dim-witted,in spite of multiple deadly encounters, to figure out the sinister Hand is not his mentor/trainer's fantasy. People around him die frequently and even Elecktra is critically wounded because of his incredible saintly, self-imposed ban on killing. No one around him is permitted to harm anyone (even in self-defense) beyond the convenient knockout blow. The 'thou shalt not kill for any reason' rule becomes so clumsy and untenable that after (yet another batch of) ninjas kill a nurse in cold blood you almost expect him to deliver a lecture to his nurse friend when she shoves one of them out the hospital window. He nearly does exactly that when he reminds her during the roof scene that her friend was killed. Since the writers seem to abide by the 'only the good die young' law we can look forward to Daredevil repeatedly beating the crap out of the baddies and their legions. Since no bad guy,however insignificant, is ever stopped permanently (by him) I guess we can look forward to an endless stream of rinse and repeat fist fights interspersed with the occasional bystander getting whacked. Couple this with the soap opera endless personal crises you start expecting organ music to swell after every character utterance. They are gonna have to go some to climb out the the hole they've dug this one into.