12 Problems With Every Marvel Netflix Show
7. The Inconsistent Release Schedule
Another major frustration has been the incredibly inconsistent scheduling of the show's seasons.
As formulaic as traditional network TV can be, you generally know you're getting a new batch of episodes around the same time every year, where under Netflix's do-what-you-like model, the release pattern has been all over the place.
Most egregiously, the gap between the second and third seasons of Daredevil was a whopping 2 years and 7 months, while Jessica Jones had to wait 2 years and 4 months for a second season, and the likes of Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Punisher didn't deliver their second seasons in particularly timely fashion either.
Now, nobody's saying that these shows needed to be precisely annualised, because that's an easy route to stifling creativity, but it's painfully clear these shows needed a well thought-out road-map for the future.
Instead, seasons seemed to go into production willy-nilly, and through it all, we've ended up with just eight episodes of The Defenders (and even less of them as a fully formed team).
Audiences like consistency and to know what they're getting - to an extent - but above this, allowing viewers to stew over cliffhangers for literally years at a time was not smart in the slightest.