‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Episode 7 Review - Muse the Mundane

This is how Daredevil: Born Again decides to handle its serial killer situation? With a creepy white mask, Muse stalked the streets of New York without generating a menacing atmosphere. Now, in Episode 7, he dies like an insignificant extra in the crowd. After treating him like a mysterious threat, Born Again offers Muse a generic background that's hastily dispensed with the motivation, "Hey, let's just get rid of this character." His only function was to bring Daredevil out of Matt, and now that this mission has been accomplished, he is clumsily discarded. The one aspect of the show that still manages to inject vigor into the frames has to be the action sequences. When Daredevil and Muse clash, you experience a sense of excitement, albeit in tiny doses. But anything is better than nothing, and if violence is Born Again's only strength, it should give us episodes packed with relentless rampage. What about, ahem, "character-driven drama?" That's certainly not this show's forte. The psychological dimensions - Matt's trauma, Wilson's "wolf in sheep's clothing" behavior - anyway seem facile and unremarkable. Throw the superhero and the supervillain inside the ring - let there be blood.

The episode opens with shower sex. The sequence is titillating enough to make you forget that Charlie Cox and Margarita Levieva have zero chemistry together. As soon as we find the characters inside the bedroom all dressed up and having a conversation, they again look uninteresting and sterile. Heather, like Muse, is utterly bland. All she has done is take some therapy sessions and engage in superficial romantic talk with Matt. She is as forgettable as those talking heads who briefly appear on news channels to talk about New York's current state. This is why you don't care for her safety when Muse takes her as hostage. There is no urgency in this situation. You merely wait for Daredevil's appearance. The scene where the masked vigilante realizes that Heather is the next victim is so laughable. As soon as he touches Heather's painting, we cut to a brief flashback and observe the scene where Matt runs his fingers across the therapist's face. The writing is so amateurish! Born Again, however, wants us to admire such obviousness. Does the show think we are as obtuse as the people who voted for Wilson and turned him into a mayor? Oh, well...

Final Score- [2/10]