Every Marvel Comic Book TV Show Ranked From Worst To Best

2. Daredevil

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. may have been the first Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show, but it was Daredevil that proved just what the MCU could really be on the small screen.

While there were plenty of reservations, what with the memory of the disastrous Ben Affleck movie lingering, and this being the first of a very ambitious five series plan that would create a whole new, more adult and grounded section of the MCU, they were vanishing by the end of the first episode, and completely evaporated with the one-take fight scene in the second.

Charlie Cox has served as a superb lead for the show, bringing plenty of charisma to the character while finding new layers to add over the course of the two seasons we've had so far, adding more subtleties and tics to both Matt Murdock and The Man Without Fear.

On top of that there's Vincent D'Onofrio's brilliantly nuanced Wilson Fisk, a brutal yet sympathetic (up to a point, anyway) figure who made the first season a real two-hander, with a captivating duality between hero and villain. This continued into its second season, with Jon Bernthal giving us the definitive on-screen version of the Punisher.

Unfortunately that season did have more issues, sagging after the Punisher mini-arc and getting bogged down by the Hand, but it still delivered on the blistering action and study of Matt's character and struggles to balance the two roles. The show serves as a wonderfully visceral take on the genre, and would be the best, if not for the series that came directly after it.