Marvel's Daredevil Season 3: 10 Spoiler Free Reactions To First Six Episodes

9. It Isn't Born Again (Yet)

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Ever since we heard the name Sister Maggie at the end of The Defenders, there's been an expectation that Season 3 will adapt the seminal comic book story Born Again, which was written by Frank Miller and drawn by David Mazzucchelli back in 1986. The storyline sees Wilson Fisk systematically destroy Daredevil's life, driving him towards insanity and then having to rebuild almost from scratch.

It's a dark, brutal arc, and one that is reportedly a big influence on Season 3, but in the first six episodes it hasn't become too apparent as yet. The onus here is very much on telling its own story, and there are of course a few too many differences (especially regarding Karen Page) for it to be a straight adaptation anyway.

The conflict between Fisk and Daredevil does build nicely over the course of the first six episodes, and there's definitely potential for things to ramp up even more (which you'd expect to happen in the final third), but so far, barring a lot of religious iconography and a couple of other loose elements, there's not too much linking it to either Born Again or Guardian Devil (which is the other main inspiration for this run).

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