MCU: 8 Problems Netflix's Marvel Universe Needs To Fix

6. A Loss Of Momentum

Although the original plan for this universe was to do one of each show before The Defenders, those plans were somewhat upended by the success of Daredevil. Netflix changed the schedule, prioritising a second season for the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, before then continuing on as normal.

That approach, though, has meant huge gaps between seasons of the other shows. It took two-and-a-half years for Jessica Jones Season 2, almost two years of Luke Cage's second season, and it'll have been another 30-month gap by the time Daredevil Season 3 arrives.

Obviously, the difficulty is balancing the number of shows they now have - and maybe that itself is a bit of a problem - but it does mean that momentum stalls drastically between seasons. A big development might happen at the end of one run, and fans will be clamouring to see what happens next, but it's difficult to sustain that if it's going to be two-and-a-half years before it's followed-up on and you've had another six seasons of other shows in between. It works for movies, where audiences have long been used to gaps of 2-3 years between sequels, but even with a shifting TV landscape the gaps are running too long to sustain the development.