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However, to finally get to this point, we had to go through betrayal after betrayal from Vladimir, to the point that it got tiring seeing him reaching for a knife, or headbutting Matt, or cursing him out, or. I think you can also attribute this to the inclusion of yet another betrayal from Vladimir creeping its way toward Matt.įor better or worse, this episode hinged on the ability to present the strained relationship between Matt and Vladimir, as the two battle-damaged warriors had to learn to rely on one another. Perhaps a bit more introspection would have added some necessary depth here, but ultimately it fell a bit flat for me. Matt’s impotence in being able to take the fight to Fisk could have been delved into a bit better than Murdock screaming and tossing the walkie talkie into the wall. Amongst the growls and puffed chests, I didn’t feel like the two were able to really best show the strengths of their characters here. Overall, I felt that this scene didn’t have the dramatic heft and buildup that was required to finally see these two forces come in contact with one another.
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One big milestone in this episode is the first “meeting” of Kingpin and Daredevil, via walkie talkie. A crazy masked vigilante assaulting police officers and blowing up buildings is pretty easy to buy in a world of aliens and thunder gods, Matt. You almost had to chuckle at Murdock’s naivete when he tells Fisk that no one would ever believe him when Wilson holds this information over his head. Changing a negative into a positive, Fisk, after discovering Urich is on the scene, unleashes a tidal wave of reporters, skewing the news to report that Daredevil is in fact responsible for the damage that has been taking place in the city, rather than himself or any of the other mafiosos. Urich manages to be an ever-present monkeywrench in Fisk's plans, and is a much more relevant part to this episode that the Foggy/Karen duo, displaying Kingpin’s control of the media on top of everything else. Foggy realizes that he’s a bit more wounded that he had originally thought, while Karen grows slightly more attached to him in the process. Meanwhile, our background players are relegated to, well, the background, mostly eating up screen time and reacting to the events that are taking place in Hell’s Kitchen. Fisk must always be on edge, looking for any viper in the grass that could threaten his throne, but it’s ultimately a throne that takes everything from him, leaving him empty. The Kingpin calling the shots from his ever-moving fleet through his right hand man, Wesley, is a perfect representation of a man who sacrifices everything to get everything. to a lesser degree, seeing almost every aspect of the city bending to Fisk’s whims, with him playing puppet maste,r goes a long way to show just how insurmountable a task Murdock has in front of him. Despite not having the stakes that say the Avengers has, or even Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. One of the things that I really dig about Daredevil is its sense of scale.
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Madame Gao’s bombs have done their job, and Fisk’s cops are surveying the wreckage, killing anyone who they find left clinging to life. This episode is, in a nutshell, “Daredevil: The Bottle Episode,” imprisoning Matt and the wounded Russian mafioso, Vladimir, in an abandoned warehouse together, fighting for their lives against Wilson Fisk and the corrupt members of the New York City Police Department currently on his payroll.Īfter handling a couple of corrupt cops, Murdock takes an extremely wounded Vladimir into an abandoned warehouse (and when I say wounded, I almost mean comically so, because by the end of the episode you’re wondering how Vladimir is even drawing breath after receiving numerous massive beatings, bullet wounds, and falling through about six hardwood floors). Now, to be fair, this isn’t to say that the episode isn’t good - it is - but it just doesn’t reach the heights its predecessors established.
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While obviously still solid, this episode doesn’t have the choreography, dramatic beats, character moments, or ratcheted-up tension that could be found peppered throughout the series up until this point. To start, if I had to pick the weakest episode of the 13 episode season of Daredevil, "Condemned" would be the one.
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