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.

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