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I've been a victim of the auto-start feature many times!  Last night I watched the second ep and it was a good one too.  Tonight I watched 3 and 4 and holy drek episode 4 was great!  I'm not going to try and fool myself anymore.  I'm going to be done in a few days.  I have rather mixed feelings about that fact. 

I've been a bit busy these days and haven't gotten back to this thread.  I ended up binging the series over the course of about a week.  Every episode had a great cliffhanger leading into the next so I never could watch just one.  I thought it was very evenly excellent across the whole series - no throwaway episodes.  And only one scene where they completely threw me out of the show - I'll call that a momentary lapse of judgement by the producers.  I'm guessing you know which scene I'm talking about as it was very singularly awful.

My biggest complaint overall is the notion that Karen can't put 2 and 2 together when she's met DD and Matt shows up with cuts and bruises all the time after she can't reach him all night etc.  It's very much against her character to be so incurious as to who DD is in the first place and she's proven to be very clever at piecing other parts of the story together.  I'd rather she had figured out who he was on her own than have to be told but the reveal was nicely done at least.  I mean Frank figured out who he was in the courtroom and he didn't even want to know.  Thank goodness we can get a whole new season without having to maintain her being clueless.

And speaking of the next season I think they've set things up very nicely for it.  We all want more Kingpin and it looks like they want to give us a lot more.  The good guys know who everyone is now so that will be an interesting dynamic and Karen's job should be a good fit while Foggy's new job has disaster written all over it - though it should lead to some interesting crossovers which they worked in well this season.  It will be interesting to see if Punisher is in the next season.  I've heard they want to do a spin-off series for him.  I can't decide which I'd prefer to be honest.  Clearly that's the most interesting and nuanced Punisher ever but is there enough there to support itself?  Half of what make DD awesome is the great relationships with his support characters.  Can't really do that with a lone wolf character like Punisher can you?

Anyway, great great season and I can't wait for more.  I think I might actually re-watch season 2 in the mean time.  Never expected to want to do that.

** SPOILERS **

The scene I'm referring to is during the hospital fight with the ninjas.  When the nurse gets thrown out the window and DD jumps out, catches up on the way down, grabs her, throws out the grapnel and they swing into the downstairs window.  Just so bad.  And mind you, I'm willing to forgive the army of ninja's and many other borderline ridiculous stunts in the show.  That one was just too far for me.  It didn't help that it looked fake on top.