I really liked the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again, but man, does this show have weird politics.
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I really liked the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again, but man, does this show have weird politics. Fisk is presented as something of a Trumpian outsider populist (albeit a more cogent and articulate one), but the show's attitudes towards crime, vigilantes, and the NYPD are outdated, veering between outright cynicism and pure copaganda.
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I really liked the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again, but man, does this show have weird politics. Fisk is presented as something of a Trumpian outsider populist (albeit a more cogent and articulate one), but the show's attitudes towards crime, vigilantes, and the NYPD are outdated, veering between outright cynicism and pure copaganda.
@Tim_Eagon Marvel has been a tonal trainwreck since Iger's return to Disney, and their sudden retreat from any appearance of a progressive narrative stance is part and parcel of that.
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I really liked the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again, but man, does this show have weird politics. Fisk is presented as something of a Trumpian outsider populist (albeit a more cogent and articulate one), but the show's attitudes towards crime, vigilantes, and the NYPD are outdated, veering between outright cynicism and pure copaganda.
@Tim_Eagon I think Disney+ might just be having a harder time walking the line that Netflix did, which was having the police and people‘s attitudes toward them reflect the tension of Matt being a lawyer who uses the system while being a vigilante who thinks the system is terrible. There was basically one good cop in the original show, and pretty much everyone else was either a criminal or someone you were supposed to suspect of being a criminal
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@Tim_Eagon I think Disney+ might just be having a harder time walking the line that Netflix did, which was having the police and people‘s attitudes toward them reflect the tension of Matt being a lawyer who uses the system while being a vigilante who thinks the system is terrible. There was basically one good cop in the original show, and pretty much everyone else was either a criminal or someone you were supposed to suspect of being a criminal
@SyHoekstra I think I found it particularly grating because it feeds into the false narratives that became prevalent, especially on the right, during and after the 2020 George Floyd protests. I think that's really pernicious nowadays, but I shouldn't be surprised since Disney, like many other major corporations, have taken a rightward turn in the last 12-18 months.
