Daredevil: Born Again review: a rough return to Marvel’s New York City

Before Disney Plus and its parade of post-Endgame Marvel series, shows like Daredevil gave the studio a convenient way to infuse the MCU with a grittier, more dramatic energy. Being a Netflix project, the original Daredevil could go harder with its action and darker with its nuanced depiction of the man without fear. And with multiple solid spinoffs of its own, Netflix’s Daredevil felt like it was working its way toward becoming a key part of Marvel’s future big-screen plans.

Though the New York City of it all made an eventual Daredevil x Avengers…