12 Problems With Every Marvel Netflix Show

4. The Journeyman Style & Direction

It's not a generalisation to say that the vast majority of the episodes across the Marvel Netflix shows are directed with a fair indifference, where there's precious little personality or any real sense of artistry or vision to what we're seeing.

Aside from Daredevil's admittedly spectacular fight scenes, the overwhelming majority of the scenes in all these shows are extremely flat looking from the perspective of both cinematography and shot selection. Outside of its action, even Daredevil doesn't look particularly remarkable or memorable for the most part.

The most obnoxious offender is obviously Iron Fist, which abjectly bungled its promise-filled action in its first season with headache-inducing editing and incoherent coverage.

Part of the problem might be that almost every episode is helmed by a different director, ensuring little sense of consistency across even a single season.

Shows like True Detective and The Haunting of Hill House, for instance, have shown what brilliance can emerge when a single director is allowed to impart their vision across a whole batch of episodes.

But more than anything, it feels like the filmmakers - many of them talented in their own right - aren't given enough time to prepare to shoot, and are perhaps encouraged to accept just a take or two of sequences which clearly need closer attention.

If many complain that many of the MCU's movies have a flat, TV-like aesthetic, the actual MCU TV shows take it one step more drab.