Ranking Every 2017 Comic Book TV Show Worst To Best
22. Iron Fist
Netflix
If any series were to typify the decline of Netflix's Marvel properties, it would be Iron Fist.
Controversial right off the bat for its adherence to the original comic's white-saviour nature (fans had also been rallying around an Asian actor to play the title character), Scott Buck's entrance to the MCU was anything but the one fans had hoped for. It was clunky, disjointed and Finn Jones struggled in the role of Danny Rand (on and off the screen).
It was just a poorly conceived piece of television, and it didn't help that it bore a direct influence on Netflix's subsequent entries in the MCU either.
With a second season now on the horizon too, one can only hope that it doesn't manage to mess up two years worth of Marvel content, lest the fallout has a knock-on effect on Daredevil too.
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.
