DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Is The Only Live-Action MCU Series Not To Make Nielsen's Top 10 Streaming Chart

Despite appearing to be one of Marvel's most highly-regarded and popular Disney+ shows yet, Daredevil: Born Again failed to chart on Nielsen's Top 10 Original Streaming Shows List...

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By MarkCassidy - May 29, 2025 09:05 AM EST

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Though the show certainly had its share of detractors, Daredevil: Born Again was a big hit with critics (87% on Rotten Tomatoes), and seemed to be embraced by the majority of fans as one of Marvel's better Disney+ efforts.

We had also been led to believe that the Man Without Fear's revival series did pretty good numbers for the streaming service, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Daredevil: Born Again has become the first live-action Marvel Studios series not to make Nielsen's Top 10 Original Streaming Shows List. The only other Marvel streaming titles to fail to find their way onto the list were animated (What If...? Seasons 1 and 3, I Am Groot, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man).

Born Again is also the second live-action MCU Disney+ show not to make Nielsen's overall top 10 after Secret Invasion.

There are likely a number of factors involved with the show failing to find a bigger audience, but Born Again was unusually violent for a Marvel series, and we can't discount the possibility that - spoiler alert - killing off Foggy Nelson in the premiere turned some fans of the original Netflix show off.

You can check out a list of Daredevil: Born Again's Season 1 ratings below.

Episodes 1 and 2: 465 million minutes

After Episode 3: 464 million minutes

After Episode 4: 373 million minutes

After Episodes 5 and 6: 344 million minutes

After Episode 7: 470 million minutes

After Episode 8: 463 million minutes

After Episode 9: 385 million minutes

A somewhat surprising development, but we already know that Born Again will be back for at least one more season (filming is currently underway). A third is also planned, so it'll be interesting to see if viewership improves for the sophomore run.

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.

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bobevanz - 5/29/2025, 9:26 AM

Two good episodes and a bunch of filler, there is no hype. [frick]ing yawn. Now he comes the fascists. [frick] this timeline

MakeAmericaGrea - 5/29/2025, 9:39 AM

@bobevanz -

But your guys are the fascists?

BlackStar25 - 5/29/2025, 9:28 AM

And people swear a Nova or Ghostrider show would kill...lol

MakeAmericaGrea - 5/29/2025, 9:39 AM

@BlackStar25 -

Not if they're made by wokies.

TheVisionary25 - 5/29/2025, 9:40 AM

@BlackStar25 - I mean , they might though idk if any of the shows have necessarily “killed” since they still have a limited audience

Gambito - 5/29/2025, 9:29 AM

They really blew it with the season, sure they course corrected but the damage was done. To have such a wonky uneven first season when it’s supposed to be this big revival was disastrous, next season is looking up but the hype has been killed

MakeAmericaGrea - 5/29/2025, 9:41 AM

@Gambito -

Everything commies touch turns to 💩.

CaptainMexico - 5/29/2025, 12:34 PM

@Gambito - they need to condense the season to fewer episodes and make each one feel special, like the Mandolorian. This season was disappointing, if it wasn’t for the team up episode with Punisher, it wouldn’t have totally sucked.

Shivermetimbers - 5/29/2025, 9:31 AM

It was one of the better Marvel shows too. I think that there are two issues here. It didn’t appeal to kids and overall Marvel enthusiasm is down. I think it did well for an essentially R rated comic book show.

Reginator - 5/29/2025, 9:32 AM

I liked the series, too bad it didn't rate higher.

MakeAmericaGrea - 5/29/2025, 9:35 AM

@Reginator -

No, it's a good thing it bombed.

🔥💣💣💣💣🔥🔥

KennKathleen - 5/29/2025, 9:33 AM

MakeAmericaGrea - 5/29/2025, 9:34 AM

Keep up the boycott!

We're winning!

vectorsigma - 5/29/2025, 9:38 AM

At this rate, dont make any Disney+ shows anymore. Marvel has been great without it. It is just an avenue of dei shit just to appease the netflix crowd. They cant compete elwith Netflix, they should realize that and sell rights of their mcu films to HBO or other movie channels because im a cable guy

Shivermetimbers - 5/29/2025, 10:12 AM

@vectorsigma - I think they should stick to animation if they want to do any series.

Vigor - 5/29/2025, 10:41 AM

@vectorsigma - how do you somehow squeeze dei into this conversation

vectorsigma - 5/29/2025, 10:50 AM

@Vigor - not hard if we are talking about disney? 😅

vectorsigma - 5/29/2025, 10:53 AM

@Shivermetimbers - how i wish someone at marvel will have the guts to follow the anime style of animating comics page by page. That will be something.

Can someone on twitter tell this to Gunn?

EskimoJ - 5/29/2025, 10:58 AM

@vectorsigma - But DEI is dead now.

vectorsigma - 5/29/2025, 12:46 PM

@EskimoJ - we still have lady surfer 😅

supermanrex - 5/29/2025, 9:55 AM

These numbers are pointless and only serve hate clickbait. if they really meant shit to Disney they wouldn't be moving on with a third season. this show found its audience and it was successful with them. measuring ratings on a streamed show is stupid since we can watch whenever the hell we want.

TheVisionary25 - 5/29/2025, 9:58 AM

I feel like they may be a bunch of factors here such as the death of Foggy likely turning some people off or lack of costumed action amongst others but those come to mind first (aswell as it being a continuation of a show some might not even have seen).

Anyway , I’m glad a S2 was already commissioned so hopefully viewership improves then so we can get more…

I felt S1 was a solid show and think it will just improve even more now that the showrunner doesn’t have to deal with pre-existing footage which was the majority of the episodes last go around!!.

mountainman - 5/29/2025, 10:09 AM

It was the 4th best season of Daredevil, that had a few good episodes. I struggled to get through the slog of the middle of the season, and it looks like many others did too.

Shivermetimbers - 5/29/2025, 10:15 AM

@mountainman - There was definitely a bit of a lull in the middle of the season. Hoping that next season they are able to keep the momentum up and tell a compelling story the whole season. I wonder how much the 1st season was affected by the fact they ended up reworking a lot of it after the creative changes.

mountainman - 5/29/2025, 10:21 AM

@Shivermetimbers - Likely a lot. And the best stuff seemed from the reshoots. I imagine the original version of the show would have been far worse. They can course correct, but it’s yet to be seen how much that’ll matter to the audience.

Vigor - 5/29/2025, 10:43 AM

I agree that overall marvel enthusiasm is down. Which is good and bad for me. It means one of my passions can maybe become niche again. I'm hipster to the core and often like things before they go mainstream, hehe. Maybe the fan base can be diminished which means passion from the real fans goes up!

The downside of mcu failing is lower budget for the movies and less talent.

Irregular - 5/29/2025, 10:55 AM

@Vigor - It'll be fine. Happened with Star Trek.

TheVisionary25 - 5/29/2025, 10:59 AM

@Vigor - everything has peaks and valleys so no doubt things will pick up again in terms of enthusiasm , sooner or later

WakandaTech - 5/29/2025, 11:27 AM

Feige and Marvel told half their audience to go [frick] themselves if they were nor on board with their Woke/ DEI agenda

This is what happens

DocSpock - 5/29/2025, 11:31 AM

The show is good. This is just a result of all the other lousy D+ shows ruining the brand.

Irregular - 5/29/2025, 11:31 AM

It was okay. Certainly not worth the wait I can say that. Feels like a continuation of the previous show, but yet it doesn't. The show comes across as a little bizarre in some ways because of that.

thedrudo - 5/29/2025, 11:44 AM

Love the excuses but it’s because the show wasn’t good and people don’t trust Disney Marvel to deliver the goods anymore. Let’s not make it complicated.

HeavyMetal4Life - 5/29/2025, 12:25 PM

It, along with Loki, are the best series that Marvel has put out on D+

Lucasberg - 5/29/2025, 8:06 PM

@HeavyMetal4Life - WandaVision was legitimately great in my opinion so I’d add that but yeah besides that, only liked DD and Loki

HeavyMetal4Life - 5/29/2025, 8:08 PM

@Lucasberg - I liked WandaVision a lot but I don't think it fully delivered like it was leading viewers on to expect. I'd probably put Moon Knight at number 3 for me, some great episodes in there.

Lucasberg - 5/29/2025, 10:11 PM

@HeavyMetal4Life - oh yeah I keep forgetting about that one as well. That would be number 4 for me. I think everything else by D+ is out for me.

HeavyMetal4Life - 5/29/2025, 10:53 PM

@Lucasberg - there are some others that I like quite a bit, even if flawed, but D+ also has some of the absolute worst that the MCU has offered (Secret Invasion, She-hulk).

Lucasberg - 5/29/2025, 10:59 PM

@HeavyMetal4Life - those were pretty bad. In fairness to She Hulk, she’s also terrible in an ironic way in the comics so I guess that’s kind of consistent lol. Echo I just didn’t care at all. Ms. Marvel was super boring to me. I guess Hawkeye was decent. Falcon and Winter Soldier was ok

HeavyMetal4Life - 5/29/2025, 11:37 PM

@Lucasberg - oh I forgot about Hawkeye, I really liked that one. #4 for me probs.
Echo was fine to me, I dug the action and the dynamic with Kingpin. I wouldn't say it was excellent though. I dug Falcon & WS too, as I really liked the Falcon/WS/US Agent storyline; the Flagsmasher storyline was pretty bad though.

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