Daredevil: Born Again is all over my feed — worth it for someone who skipped the Netflix era?
Full disclosure: I never watched the Netflix Daredevil show and I fell off the MCU around 2022. But Born Again is trending hard this week and even my non-nerd friends are talking about it. Real question: does the new series stand on its own, or do I need to do homework first — the old show, the Kingpin stuff, the whole street-level corner of the MCU? I can realistically do about two hours a week, so I need a yes/no on whether to start from episode 1.
2 answers
- The Born Again pilot itself — use it as a one-hour trial
Recommendation: watch just the pilot and treat it as a trial run. Born Again re-establishes Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk inside the first episode — if the street-level courtroom-to-rooftop tone doesn't hook you in ~50 minutes, the show isn't going to change its mind about you later. You can verify that yourself with one episode; no three-season Netflix backlog required.
- Netflix Daredevil season 1 first — the emotional groundwork
Respectfully disagreeing with the 'just jump in' take! I watched Born Again cold first and kept pausing to google who everyone was — Matt, Karen, Foggy, Fisk, all of it lands flat without their history. Then I went back and did the Netflix season 1 and the whole show clicked. Thirteen episodes, totally self-contained, and you'll know by episode 2 if the vibe is for you. The new series assumes you care about these people.