The blind lawyer from Hell’s Kitchen who takes his own vigilante justice returns. Meanwhile, his greatest enemy from the Netflix series returns as an ambitious politician drawing obvious parallels with the modern world.
Heaven’s Half Hour
The series kicks off with Matt, Foggy and Karen celebrating their friend Cherry’s retirement. Foggy takes a call and it’s revealed he has stashed a client at his place. Matt, in his Daredevil garb, goes to rescue the client. Matt hears the client try to tell Foggy he told the attacker where Foggy is. The attacker is revealed to be Benjamin “Dex” Pointdexter, also known as Bullseye. Dex shoots Foggy before Daredevil gets there. Daredevil hears his best friends die and drops Bullseye off a roof. Bullseye survives and Cherry learns that Matt is Daredevil.
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A year later, Matt has given up the Daredevil moniker and is now a lawyer at the District Attorney’s office. Karen moved to San Francisco but returned for Bullseye’s sentencing hearing. The two share a moment before Karen leaves. Meanwhile, Wilson Fisk has returned and is now running for Mayor following the events of both Hawkeye and Echo. He reunited with Vanessa who has moved on since he was shot in the face and spent so much time in the hospital. But she endorses his run. Fisk is running for office on an anti-vigilante campaign targeting folks like Daredevil and the new vigilante on the streets of New York, White Tiger.
Matt confronts Fisk where the former Daredevil admits lines were crossed after Foggy’s death and that’s why he stopped being a vigilante. Fisk tells Matt he had nothing to do with Foggy’s murder and is a changed man after his interactions with Echo. Both warn each other about straying from their current paths. Fisk says he’ll use the power of his office, if he wins, to keep Matt in line. Matt says if Fisk goes back to being the Kingpin, he’ll stop Fisk. Later, Matt’s on a date with a therapist named Heather, after being set up on a date by Kirsten, the District Attorney. Matt hears Fisk won the Mayoral race. Matt is in shock while many around New York celebrate.
Optics
In episode two, a man named Hector Ayala comes across two men beating up another man. Hector tries to stop it; the victim gets away but one of the attackers falls into the path of an oncoming subway train. The other attacker pulls out a badge and gun revealing the two attackers were corrupt police officers and now Hector is facing vigilantism charges along with a charge of killing a police officer. Matt hears the charges and can tell through his special hearing that Hector is innocent, so he agrees to take the case. It becomes more complicated when it’s revealed that Hector is actually the White Tiger.
Meanwhile, a young journalist with a connection to both Matt’s and Fisk’s pasts is trying to make a name for herself. BB Urich is the niece of Ben Urich, a journalist who discovered Fisk’s criminal enterprise and Kingpin murdered him for it. Now, she’s looking to make her mark and finds a way to get an interview with the new mayor. She reveals the current police commissioner, who is aware of Fisk’s past crimes, is ready to resign in protest. This allows Fisk to form a plan to keep things in check.
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Fisk has to maintain respectable optics, so he can’t just start acting like the Kingpin. While trying to go to the fire department to meet with the commissioner, he gets stuck in traffic due to a pothole. He gets out and fills the hole himself which makes it look like he’s doing something for the community. He’s not because it’s one pothole in a city with millions, but it looks good. He also uses the information from BB Urich to learn about the police commissioner’s infidelity and secret family in Philadelphia. Fisk blackmails the commissioner to stay on showing some of the Kingpin we all remember. Fisk and Vanessa go to therapy to prepare for the public scrutiny on their marriage, but it’s revealed Matt’s girlfriend, Heather, is their therapist.
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Meanwhile, Matt has found the victim who managed to flee when Hector stepped in to save him. He tries to get the man to safety when he hears crooked cops in the building. He allows the victim Hector saved to flee on the fire escape where Cherry is waiting to pick him up. Matt is there and appears ready to let the cops attack him. However, the cops pull guns and Matt starts breaking out his Daredevil moves to defend himself.
Rating
This is one of the best premieres ever on Disney Plus. While not as gritty as the Defenders series managed to get on Netflix, it’s still some of the grittiest stuff seen on Disney Plus. There’s clear changes in Matt’s and Fisk’s characters and they seem to be trying to keep each other away from their old habits. It’s a fun dichotomy that makes it better. We already know the Punisher will be back later in the series. But will we see Jessica Jones, Luke Cage or Iron Fist? There’s a lot of potential for this series and I’m excited.
Check out Daredevil: Born Again streaming exclusively on Disney Plus.
Article Written By: Jeremy Brown for Stelmach Brown Media 2025
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