This post is part of my #StreamTeam series for Netflix about what we as a family are doing in the New Year.
This year is off to a great start around here. We are gearing up for a great year ahead. One new thing that we, or rather, I, am doing is a daily vlog. While the family is appearing on various videos we haven’t gone all out and made it a completely family vlog like one of my good friends, Annie of Stowed Stuff. She inspired me to start a daily vlog and so far I’ve done it every day since New Year’s Day. That is pretty good for a guy who consumes media way more than he makes media. But that is going to change over the course of the year. My goal is to vlog each day for 2016, something that completely doable. I started taking a photograph every day for a year in 2005 and I’m about to hit year 11 in April.
This month has also been about watching some shows on Netflix. For me, personally, I look for shows to watch during my break at work. I get an hour break and so pick an hour show to watch. This past month I watched Marco Polo and Sense8. Both shows are Netflix Originals and they are amazing. I can’t watch them with the family but I do enjoy them in the personal time that I have. I’m really looking forward to the new seasons of Daredevil, Longmire and the new show Luke Cage. I’m also looking forward to watching Orange is the New Black and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with Allison. Continue reading New Adventures and Netflix→
I was given access to watch the first five episodes of the new Netflix show Marvel’s Daredevil. As someone who enjoys the superhero genre of movies and TV I was all over watching Daredevil. I watched all four episodes in two days. I heard that it was going to be gritty and dark. I didn’t realize how gritty and dark it would be. As my title suggests, this is a grown up show and not at all for kids.
There are many things that make this show different from the rest of the superhero shows on tv. This is much more realistic. While Daredevil has heightened senses because of his childhood accident with a chemical spill causing him to become blind, the whole thing is not played up like some sort of super power. For the most part you only hear what Daredevil is hearing. He is also a great fighter. As the son of a boxer and his years of training in many fighting styles he has almost superhuman reflexes. But they are still human reflexes.
I thought that shows like Arrow and Gotham were dark and gritty. Gotham more-so than Arrow but while those are dark they are still light compared to Daredevil. Both in the sense of the storytelling and also in the way that they shoot the show. It is almost always in darkness. Daredevil doesn’t have to have the lights on to see so many fights are in the dark. It is a bit frustrating to see but the fights are also so brutal that I’m not sure I want to see everything. Sometimes the sound effects are enough.
