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DareDevil Review: Welcome to the Underworld of the MCU

The man without fear is back, and now well accommodated within the sacred walls of Marvel Entertainment he’s ditched the leather fetish and been brought back down to the real, harsh world with an almighty and spectacular bang.   The story of this 13 episode revival of the “devil of hell’s kitchen” shows the early days of Mr Murdock’s foray into the world of attorney law and kicking ass with vigilante justice as he aims to cleanse his city of the rampant organised crime that is plaguing the streets of Hells Kitchen thanks to a new terrifying and mysterious king of crime that has forced his way onto the scene. There could be a fear that this singular story is not enough to confidently fill the wide breadth of 13 episodes but through clever scripting that infuses genuinely intriguing mysteries, chess game like manoeuvring from characters, a more moral ambiguous conflict than seen in other Marvel Cinematic Universe products, and twists that while aren’t always completely unexpected ar