Netflix’s Daredevil is back for season 3, with a darker storyline and some old familiar faces
A blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night, Matt Murdock is back to fight crime in New York as the Marvel superhero, and the return of Kingpin and Bullseye mean this could be the best series yet
No question, the latest trailer for the third season of Netflix’s Daredevil knows how to get the fans on side. Wilson Fisk – the antagonist from season 1 played so charismatically by Vincent D’Onofrio – is sitting behind bars. “Go on, let the devil out,” he snarls.
“Fisk is back which is very, very cool,” says Deborah Ann Woll, who plays Karen Page. “We all have history with him.”
The “we”, of course, refers to Page’s allies – blind lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a.k.a superhero vigilante Daredevil, and his fellow legal eagle Franklin “Foggy” Nelson (Eldon Henson). After two seasons and the spin-off show The Defenders – which brought Daredevil together with Netflix’s other Marvel heroes Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones – this third season is going back to its roots.
“When I came to Netflix and Marvel, I said I wanted to do something tonally between season 1 of Daredevil and The Sopranos,” explains incoming producer Erik Oleson. Wilson Fisk as the new Tony Soprano? It's an intriguing thought. This season’s 13-episode arc will be an “intense thriller”, he adds, with a “darker and more grounded” tone. “That’s pretty much going to be the feel of the season. It’s got a lot of twists and turns.”
The last time audiences saw Murdock, it was at the end of The Defenders, being nursed by a nun after barely surviving the collapse of the Midland Circle building. “Matt is badly injured from what happens at the end of The Defenders,” says Oleson. “He starts the season unable to be Daredevil to the extent that we know him, because his abilities have been injured. He’s grappling with that.”