Daredevil finally got his MCU reintroduction and could take the chance to complete some dangling plot threads.
From 2015 to 2018, Marvel’s Daredevil had cemented its case for being some of the best TV that the comic book/superhero genre has ever produced. The show captured the essence of writer Frank Miller’s crime-noir reinvention of the Man Without Fear in the early 1980s while blending it with the grit of a crime series you might find on HBO.
Despite Netflix cutting the series criminally short, Daredevil still managed to end on a fairly satisfying note. Almost every plot thread closed in a tidy fashion, which includes the brooding superhero’s blood feud with Kingpin. Aside from the physically and mentally imposing Fisk, Bullseye is the next contender for having given Matt and his loved ones their tailor-made hell on earth.
His supporting role in season 3 was intricately balanced to show he won’t steal Kingpin’s spotlight without wasting his own character in the process. Plenty of time has passed between season 3’s finale and the new MCU as we know it , and Bullseye has been perfectly teed up well to be Daredevil’s next headlining matchup in a successor series without any confusion.
And though that last point is outside any of the creative teams’ control, it still seems like a missed opportunity. Of course, having Elektra’s body be conveniently missing after a building crashed on her and Matt by the time season 3 starts is a free pass to course correct this. As in the comic book source material itself, assume no one is dead if there’s no visible corpse — and sometimes even that isn’t enough to definitively prove a character has truly died.