3 Reasons* The Defenders Isn’t Must-Binge TV

The Defenders dropped in one deafening, 8-episode pile of hype back on August 18th and I’ve only just finished it. Took me two and a half weeks. From what I’m told, I’m the first among my friends to do so. Rewind to when Daredevil dropped 13 episodes in 2015. How long did it take you to finish? Yeah, I was done in 6 days. I inhaled two hours of Matt Murdock throwing hands and getting dirty a day for 5 days, with 3 big hours on the last day. AND I WAS STILL THE LAST ONE FINISHED. Same with Luke Cage. Jessica Jones took a more measured pace because of how heavy it was — walking the path of PTSD, even comic book PTSD, isn’t something I can’t do for more than an hour a day — but somewhere in Daredevil season 2 the drive to binge it ALL RIGHT NOW died down. And now with both Iron Fist and The Defenders, the urgency was just gone. (I’ll be honest, I still haven’t finished Iron Fist. ) *Note: Not mentioning Danny Rand. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m as bored by Danny Rand as the rest of you are. Martial arts movies are part of my DNA, so watching kung fu of any kind done badly almost physically hurts me. But really, there’s enough off tone about The Defenders that Danny Rand is the FOURTH worst thing about it. That’s serious. Regardless of how you rank them this was supposed to be the pinnacle of superhero television, but instead it feels like a mandatory pit stop on the way to more solo seasons. Where has Netflix gone astray? What happened to their must-binge powerhouse? SPOILERS YO…