The first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again are now available to stream on Disney+, and the series premiere gets underway with the shocking death of a major character.
If you haven't had a chance to watch yet, be warned of major spoilers from this point on.
"Heaven's Half Hour" (you'll find a full breakdown here) begins with the familiar sight of Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) in Josie's Bar, but our long-awaited reunion is violently cut short when Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter, aka Bullseye (Wilson Bethel), murders Foggy in cold blood.
Nelson pretty definitively bleeds out and dies in Karen's arms, but it seems this won't be the last we see of the character.
While speaking to the Phase Hero podcast, Marvel Studios' Head of Television, Brad Winderbaum, revealed that both Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson will be back for season 2 of Born Again.
While there is precedent for Foggy surviving a near-fatal attempt on his life in the comics, we don't imagine this show going down a similar route, and we assume the character will return via flashbacks. We're sure a lot of fans would love to see Nelson and Murdock reunited in season 2, but the cards have been dealt. Foggy's death is a vital part of Matt's arc over the course of the season, and "resurrecting" him just wouldn't seem right.
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In Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.
The show also stars Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Zabryna Guevara, Nikki James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson, Michael Gandolfini, with Ayelet Zurer and Jon Bernthal. Dario Scardapane is on board as showrunner.
Episodes are directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, Michael Cuesta, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, and David Boyd; and executive producers are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Sana Amanat, Chris Gary, Dario Scardapane, Christopher Ord & Matthew Corman, and Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead.