Criminals are evil, and the only way to stop them from hurting good people is to have a vigilante hunt and kill them all. In the battle against Evil, the end justifies the means, and any objection is hippie hogwash. This is the basic premise of many an action movie, and it is also the basic premise of the Daredevil TV series. The main difference is that the vigilante is wearing a costume instead of regular clothes (ok, Punisher did that as well), and that he does not kill the criminals, though the first few episodes leave you wondering.

If that tired yarn is your thing, you are going to enjoy the series. If not, you will be bored with the main story pretty fast.

The action sequences are well choreographed, and if you are into kung fu movies, you will enjoy them, even though they are too long for my tastes. My main gripe with them is something else: Suspension of disbelief. There are a number of times where Daredevil gets into fights that should be impossible to win unless he was gifted with invulnerability and super strength, and yet, he wins without those abilities.

The best part of the series, however, is not Daredevil or his alter ego. Deborah Ann Woll (as Karen Page) and Elden Henson (as Foggy Nelson) brings some much needed humor, vulnerability and soul to the series, and there is an excellent chemistry between them. I really hope that we will see a lot more of them.

As usual in this type of series, most of the actors, especially those who have some sort of agency, are male. Of the leading criminals, only one is female. All the females appear to be quite weak physically, and need a strong (male) hero so save them. The cynic in me suspect that some of the female characters will be killed or maimed to provoke some emotional response in one or more of the male characters. I hope, I'm wrong, but only time will tell.

The lack of physically strong females is not surprising given that the comic book series that the series is based on started in the early 1960s, where the comics code authority required that all heroes and villains should be white men, and women were mostly there as rewards. Given that so many of the main characters of Daredevil (and many other comic books) were introduced and established back then, that crap is still weighing down on us today.

The creators of the TV series (fortunately) moved past the racism, but I am a bit sad that they only partially modernized the female characters when they were at it. Hopefully, it will come down the line.

As an adaption of the Daredevil comic book it is quite close to the original - if you like the comic book, you are going to like this. It should also be noted that the series gets better as it progresses, giving more space for story and character development. I may actually give 2nd season a chance.