Daredevil is an original Dramatic Hour Long series adaptation of the long-running comic book series, and the first entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's The Defenders franchise, followed up by Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Punisher. The series originally premiered on Netflix on April 10, 2015 and ran for three seasons.
The show follows Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened senses, as he works alongside his office secretary Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and his best friend and law partner Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) to combat the criminal activities of Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) in the courtroom and on the streets of Hell's Kitchen as the masked vigilante "Daredevil".
Rather fittingly, it was the first Netflix series to receive descriptive audio to enable blind people to follow along properly. It's also notable for being the first MCU property to break from the franchise's overall lighter tone, offering a Darker and Edgier take on the universe that hadn't yet been seen when it debuted in early 2015.
Daredevil was renewed for a second season a week after its debut, which premiered on March 18, 2016. It introduces two major characters from Marvel lore: Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal), and Elektra Natchios (Élodie Yung). The near-unanimous praise for Bernthal's performance as Castle led to him getting his own spinoff show, The Punisher, released on November 17, 2017.
A third season of Daredevil was released on October 19, 2018, and introduces several more characters of Daredevil lore, including Joanne Whalley as Sister Maggie, Wilson Bethel as Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter, and Jay Ali as Ray Nadeem. A month after the third season dropped, Netflix announced they had officially canceled Daredevil, but claimed the character would "live on in future projects for Marvel" after a contractual hiatus.
Charlie Cox as Daredevil has appeared as Daredevil in other Marvel shows and films in the same continuity, including Spider-Man: No Way Home as Peter Parker's lawyer, an episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and an appearance in Echo to fight the eponymous Anti-Hero. This was preceded by the reintroduction of Vincent D'Onofrio as Fisk in the last two episodes of Hawkeye just a few days prior to No Way Home's release.
A Sequel Series, Daredevil: Born Again, debuted on Disney+ in 2025, with Cox, Woll, Henson, D'Onofrio and others reprising their roles.
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As Daredevil is part of The Defenders, the second season sets up things in The Defenders, and The Defenders influences the plot of Daredevil season 3, spoilers from that series are included in some of the examples, and they are marked as such.
