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“You know, you’re one bad day away from being me.” — Frank Castle, Daredevil Season 2. Daredevil Season 3 is out tomorrow friends — welcome to what happens after Matt Murdock’s One Bad Day. Waking Up in The Orphanage Marvel’s Daredevil – Sister Maggie warns Murdock about getting his ass beat. Again. Our friend Matt (still played with earnest, introspective anger by Charlie Cox), as you’ll recall from Season 2, has had a building dropped on him, which killed all kinds of people, including his One True Love, Elektra (maybe? She was kinda undead, wasn’t she? Who can say? ) Everything that’s happened has left Matt questioning his faith and his calling. If Murdock brooding, sighing, and looking out over a dark NYC skyline is your jam, the first two episodes are for you. He does plenty of brooding. He gets beaten, re-beaten. They beat him in flashbacks and flash-forwards, beat him in dark alleys and on bright wide open sidewalks. He’s just beat. If you love watching your fave hit the ground and just keep getting back up, you will love it. If you’re like me, and you watch Daredevil for the action more so than the soul-searching, then you’ve been warned — this season has a slower start, but really gets moving around episode 3. After that, all the pieces come into focus, manipulated by the man behind everything: Wilson Fisk. Fisk is sitting in prison on Federal RICO charges, but we know from Season 2 that being in prison doesn’t mean he’s out of the game. Fisk, (whew, the amazing…
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