10 Overhyped TV Shows You Massively Regret Watching
3. The Defenders
To coincide with the rise in popularity of their movies, Marvel launched a series of TV shows across Netflix beginning in 2015. Then, in 2017, they had their own version of The Avengers when all of these heroes got together to form one big superteam!
And it was... fine. It was fine.
The Defenders, named after the comic book unit of the same name (comprised of Hulk and Doctor Strange in the source material), combined Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist for eight episodes of battling Sigourney Weaver. This was supposed to feel like a huge moment tying together all the different narrative strings from across these series, but after a strong start, things began to stall.
It never felt like the stakes were high enough to warrant four different heroes teaming up like this. The Defenders promised a TV equivalent of one of the biggest movies of all time, but all it delivered was a standard series of any one of the four individual shows.
Even with all the potential in the world behind it, The Defenders ended its run as the least-watched Marvel Netflix series of the bunch. That makes zero sense on paper, but them's the facts.