Daredevil: Born Again
Season 2

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN 🔥 SEASON 2 (2026)

“The best way to honour the dead, is not to join them.”

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN storms back onto Disney+ for its second season, doubling down on its central clash: blind justice versus unchecked power in the unforgiving streets of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen.

This time, Daredevil is in deeper than ever, circling a rebranded Kingpin, Mayor Wilson Fisk, and a looming arms deal funneling military-grade weapons into the city’s ports. With the Anti-Vigilante Task Force tightening its grip, every move Daredevil makes carries weight. Every decision has consequences. And no one. innocent or otherwise, is safe from the fallout.

This season doesn’t just flirt with real-world parallels, it leans all the way in.

The Anti-Vigilante Task Force echoes ICE, while Fisk’s iron-fisted “fix-it” politics feel pulled straight from modern headlines. It’s blunt. It’s pointed. And, at times, it works.

But if I had to sum this season up?

Resist. Rebel. Repetitive.

Because for all its ambition, this season struggles to stay consistent.

We’ve already seen the gold standard for this character, Ben Affleck’s 2003 Daredevil…kidding! The Netflix era set the bar. And anything that falls short of that inevitably feels like a step backward.

Charlie Cox still is Matt Murdock. That hasn’t changed. But this revival, rebuilt from a critically acclaimed foundation, doesn’t give him the same space to fully inhabit both sides of the character. Lawyer and vigilante no longer feel equally essential. And that imbalance hurts the show. What this series is missing is the heart. It’s missing Foggy Nelson.

His absence isn’t just emotional, it’s structural. The flashbacks only reinforce what’s gone, not what’s been replaced.

Now, to be fair, the action is a major step up. The fight scenes hit harder, move faster, and feel more visceral than last season. But spectacle alone isn’t enough.

Daredevil has always thrived on duality: the courtroom and the streets. The man and the mask. Right now, that balance is off.

And that’s the frustrating part, because the potential here is undeniable.

Behind the scenes, the reshoots and creative overhaul are impossible to ignore. You can feel the seams. But you can also see the course correction starting to take hold. By episode four, the season finally locks in, and when it does, it moves.

Still, the “city vs. vigilantes” storyline never quite lands the way it should. When you’re dealing with barely more than one vigilante, the scale feels off. The trial lacks the weight it’s aiming for. But then the finale swings big, and connects.

The final case delivers one of the strongest climaxes in any Marvel series to date. And when Matt Murdock is actually driving the story, not sidelined into reactive “Daredevil-ing”, the show comes alive.

Performance-wise, Michael Gandolfini continues to shine. There’s a confidence and control to his performance now that makes him impossible to ignore. And Wilson Bethel as Bullseye? A complete turnaround. A character I barely cared about last season becomes one of the highlights here. That episode four opening, set to “New York State of Mind”, oozes style and swagger.

Season one earned praise for breaking away from Marvel’s usual formula, leaning darker, grittier, more mature. Season two builds on that foundation, but stumbles early with a sense of repetition that drags down its momentum.

Still, DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN isn’t playing it safe. It provokes. It mirrors reality. It swings for something bigger. And even if it doesn’t always land cleanly, it sticks the ending just enough to remind you why you’re watching. 

Enjoy!

6.8/10 🍿 🎥

Runtime: 50mins

Episodes: 8

Where: Now Streaming on Disney+

The Richmond Reviewer Daredevil: Born Again Season Two Review - March 25th, 2026.