Daredevil: 11 Most Fan-Pleasing Moments From Season 2
2. Frank's Graveyard Monologue
If any one scene best encapsulates the talent and story-telling skill of Daredevil, it would be the closing moments of the second season's fourth episode. After being brutally tortured by the Irish, Matt escorts Frank to safety where he can then receive medical attention. What follows isn't a simple hand-off to the emergency services however, but an acting tour-de-force that best exemplifies the character of Frank Castle in a way no other adaptation or (at the risk of blaspheming the character's source material) even comic book story-arc has previously managed to. It humanises an inherently demonised character and in doing so attains an emotional high the series fails to eclipse, even if it certainly does come close to doing so at later points. For someone who's failed on countless occasions to empathise with Frank Castle's cause, it's most definitely spurred me to try to again.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
