Daredevil: Born Again is back for Season 2 – and no longer beholden to the previous incarnation of the show. “We were like, “We can do whatever we want’,” producer Sana Amanat tells Empire. “That was so liberating.”
People kinda wanted it to be beholden to the previous version, rather than the first season of BA which was some kind of patchwork monster of both being a wholly original timeline and a continuation.
Captain-Wilco2025-11-17 19:16
“Previous version” means the initial version of Born Again, not the Netflix show. They’re saying that this season isn’t a patchwork monster like last time
Funmachine2025-11-17 19:27
Yeah I expected that is what it meant. It's just poorly worded.
These_Wish_51012025-11-17 19:11
Lol..more pointless Ms Marvel references, I'm guessing 😏
lanwopc2025-11-17 19:12
To save a click, by "the previous incarnation," the reference is to the initial version of "Born Again" which had to be retooled and not the Netflix incarnation.
Long_Ganache_13352025-11-17 19:19
I hope it’s connecting to everything. I hope we’ll see events of the blip affecting Jessica Jones, Luke, Cage, and Danny Rand
AdditionalBanana95852025-11-17 19:33
We're so far removed from those events for them to still matter at this point. We don't need everyone's perspective on everything that happens.
Long_Ganache_13352025-11-17 19:50
The Netflix era is gone. We need to see more evidence.
blaintopel2025-11-17 19:50
Idk, I think k the snap specifically was such a huge event I think we should at least have an idea of who was snapped and who wasn't for almost every property since endgame. It seems weird that in born again 1 no one in that entire world seems to have lost 5 years.
Constant_League_29702025-11-17 19:28
>When Charlie Cox returned as Daredevil in [Disney+](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/disney-plus-12-things-watch/) sequel series [*Daredevil: Born Again*](https://www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/daredevil-born-again/), there was much to love – Hell’s Kitchen’s hero back at it again, Vincent D’Onofrio back on fearsome form as Kingpin, and some shocking turns along the way. (Foggy, no!) **But, the series also bore some hallmarks of its tricky production – Season 1 was retooled from a very different initial iteration of** ***Born Again*****, reportedly a more law-focused case-of-the-week procedural, without several of the key ingredients from the original** [**Netflix series**](https://www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/daredevil-season-3-review/)**.**
>**“The landscape was open, and that was so liberating,” producer Sana Amanat tells** ***Empire*** **of Season 2. “We were like, “We can do whatever we want.**’” For Matt Murdock, that means building a vigilante army, while physically weakened after taking a bullet for – of all people – Wilson Fisk. As for Fisk, now Mayor of New York City, he’s at the height of his powers, cracking down on masked crusaders with his ‘Safer Streets Initiative’. “What does it mean for Fisk when he’s gotten everything he wants?” teases Amanat of where *Born Again* is going. “When you give a person whose thirst cannot be quenched his most valued treasure, is it enough? Or does he squeeze his treasure too hard?”
Read the article people
DigificWriter2025-11-17 19:34
I didn't think they'd junk 9+ story ideas (Born Again was originally supposed to be 18 episodes long), so this is interesting.
Correct-Chemistry6182025-11-17 19:40
I may be unpopular, but... I genuinely preferred the original six episodes to the three they added and changed later. They were a pleasant episodic superhero show with a case of the week, interesting conflicts, and interesting characters.
The other three episodes gave me the impression that they were afraid fans would find the series too different and wanted to mimic the theme of the Netflix series, a bit clumsily, to be honest.
I liked the plot of White Tiger, but I didn't really like the gratuitous and hypertrophic sequence shot with Bullseye. I liked the conversation between Punisher and Matt in the fourth episode, but I didn't really like the over-the-top action scene with Punisher. I liked Wilson Fisk, who, like Matt, tries to distance himself from his alter ego but ends up becoming a cunning and manipulative mayor. I didn't like the Kingpin, who, instead of using his power in a sneaky way, wanted to set up a dictatorship from the start and crushed the commissioner's head just to make us say, "Oh, he's doing what he did in the old series!"
maxfridsvault2025-11-17 19:49
“we can do whatever we want”
“…except get sony to let us use spider-man.”
paulojrmam2025-11-17 19:53
Yeah, the needed rewrites did make the first season of DBA less good than it could have been. I fully expect s2 to be better. It should.
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>**“The landscape was open, and that was so liberating,” producer Sana Amanat tells** ***Empire*** **of Season 2. “We were like, “We can do whatever we want.**’” For Matt Murdock, that means building a vigilante army, while physically weakened after taking a bullet for – of all people – Wilson Fisk. As for Fisk, now Mayor of New York City, he’s at the height of his powers, cracking down on masked crusaders with his ‘Safer Streets Initiative’. “What does it mean for Fisk when he’s gotten everything he wants?” teases Amanat of where *Born Again* is going. “When you give a person whose thirst cannot be quenched his most valued treasure, is it enough? Or does he squeeze his treasure too hard?”
Read the article people
The other three episodes gave me the impression that they were afraid fans would find the series too different and wanted to mimic the theme of the Netflix series, a bit clumsily, to be honest.
I liked the plot of White Tiger, but I didn't really like the gratuitous and hypertrophic sequence shot with Bullseye. I liked the conversation between Punisher and Matt in the fourth episode, but I didn't really like the over-the-top action scene with Punisher. I liked Wilson Fisk, who, like Matt, tries to distance himself from his alter ego but ends up becoming a cunning and manipulative mayor. I didn't like the Kingpin, who, instead of using his power in a sneaky way, wanted to set up a dictatorship from the start and crushed the commissioner's head just to make us say, "Oh, he's doing what he did in the old series!"
“…except get sony to let us use spider-man.”