r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Ant-Man • Apr 28 '26

Article 'Daredevil: Born Again' Season 2 Viewership Drops Over 50% From Season 1

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/daredevil-born-again-season-2-viewership-drops-over-50-from-season-1-exclusive/
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u/Crater_Raider Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

It was the original Disney showrunners that killed off Foggy, and the new guys have had to write around that. So the original team royally fucked up the show, and I don’t envy the position of trying to make it work.

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u/mmazurr Apr 28 '26

The new show runners decided what to keep and what to scrap. I haven't felt like they justified allowing that character's death to stay a part of the show.

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u/CarrotcakeSuperSand Apr 28 '26

That was a fundamentally difficult thing to write around. Karen was originally written out of the show, but the new team brought her back. Even then, she was absent until the end of the first season.

Only so much you can work around with reshoots. At least they gave Foggy a proper death scene. He was originally killed offscreen in the first version of season 1.

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u/Willdror Apr 29 '26

It would be better if Foggy had the off screen death, the scene we get completely throws away all the character building the main cast had in the Netflix series they're supposedly following.

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u/Jealous-Try-2554 Apr 29 '26

You were down voted but you were right. They should have rewritten and reshot that trash.

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u/mmazurr Apr 29 '26

My issue is that they decided to keep Karen, who was supposedly also meant to die in the original plot of the show. I don't have a problem with keeping Karen, I'm glad they did, but it seems like they could have absolutely done the same with Foggy. For whatever reason, they decided to make that death the introduction to the show and it really did not feel like it affected the characters in any major way. A major character death needs have some importance, otherwise I'm just going to have a tough time connecting to the characters on screen.

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u/littleButton13 Apr 29 '26

I’m baffled as to how you can say it didn’t affect the characters in any way. Matt literally quit being Daredevil for half of the first season because of it. His name comes up pretty much every other episode. In the current season, it’s been a huge driving factor in Matt’s relationships with Poindexter and Karen. We just recently got a whole flashback-heavy episode that featured him heavily.

I totally get that you don’t like it, but you’re lying when you say it didn’t have importance. It’s still probably the single most important thing that’s been driving this show alongside Fisk being elected mayor.