Iron Fist Season 2 Review: 5 Ups & 7 Downs

An underwhelming improvement.

By Jack Pooley /

Netflix

Iron Fist's much-anticipated second season is now available to stream on Netflix. Despite the first season being panned by both critics and fans last year, there's been a surprising amount of optimism that season two might be a massive improvement over and apology for that embarrassingly rough first go-around.

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Sadly that's not the reality, and while this second batch of episodes never gets close to the awfulness of season one, it's still a wildly inconsistent mess of tones, ideas, characters and throwaway storylines.

Ditching previous showrunner Scott Buck was clearly a sensible idea, as was cutting the length of the season down, but as much as season two marginally improves upon what came before, it's still miles away from being a legitimately good superhero show on the level of, say, Daredevil or Jessica Jones in particular.

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Perhaps the tenacious action sequences and fun cast chemistry might be enough for some, but if you're hoping for a nuanced, intriguing narrative in the bargain, you should probably look elsewhere...