DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Producer Says Season 2 Will Be "A Singular Vision In A Way That Season 1 Is Not"

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Producer Says Season 2 Will Be "A Singular Vision In A Way That Season 1 Is Not"

In a new interview, Daredevil: Born Again EP Jesse Wigutow says that season 2 of the Marvel series will "learn from the mistakes" of the first batch of episodes...

By MarkCassidy - Oct 04, 2025 09:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Daredevil

Daredevil: Born Again was a big hit with critics and seemed to go over pretty well with fans (though viewership numbers suggest it wasn't quite as popular with more casual viewers), but the series did come in for some criticism from those that felt that the changes relating to the much-discussed creative overhaul were a little too apparent in certain episodes.

As we know, Born Again was originally envisioned as a full reboot before showrunner Dario Scardapane was brought on to bring it more in line with the Netflix show. The pilot and finale were completely repurposed, and one episode, in particular - the divisive "With Interest" - felt tonally at odds with the rest of the season.

While speaking to Collider, producer executive producer Jesse Wigutow promised that season 2 will feel like more of a "singular vision."

"We are in the process. It's so fresh in my mind. I'm looking at cuts and thinking about, 'What can we improve?' I think it's a singular vision in a way that Season 1 is not. Season 1 is, to your point, not hodgepodge, but it was jigsawed together. We came up with a new pilot and we came up with a new finale, and that's kind of what you're speaking to there, the clarity of those two things, which I thought worked, and I think Season 2 has the same. There is clarity of vision. The showrunner has been awesome and really has a point of view that we've executed on. Nothing's perfect, but I do think Season 2 is quite good, and I think it's going to be very satisfying."

Wigutow was also asked if he could share any hints about what fans can expect from the second season.

"It’s not a whole lot I can say, obviously, in terms of specifics, but it is a very big portrait that we're telling, a big New York City story, crime, politics. Obviously, we have Mayor Fisk and all of the palace intrigue around him inside City Hall. All of it, I think, is really awesome. What I take away most from the season — and we're just going through cuts now, we're about to embark on Season 3 — is that we told this really big story, it got very wide, and then we kind of drive it in the finale to really what matters most. I think what people care about are these two characters and the conflict that they're in, how deeply they hate each other, and how deeply they need each other. We really carve out all the stuff around them that we've built up, and it's just the two of them, face-to-face, in a really, I think, satisfying climax."

After Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) declared martial law with the help of his anti-vigilante task force in the season 1 finale, Matt Murdock decided to fight back by assembling a team of his own. The line-up was lacking a bit of muscle, but we know that Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) will be joining the fray in season 2.

Which other characters will ultimately make up Murdock's "army" remains to be seen, but we'd say Luke Cage (Mike Colter) is a strong possibility.

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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Wahhvacado
Wahhvacado - 10/4/2025, 9:37 AM
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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 10/4/2025, 9:44 AM
u phucked it.
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 10/4/2025, 9:44 AM
And yet, it'll be just as shit if not worse. I watched the episodes the creators worked on. Episode 1 was horrible, 8 was below average, and 9 was garbage. The original shows worst episode is better than all of those episodes combined. These people, Disney, and modern day slop enjoyers don't understand Daredevil and his surrounding characters. This show sucks.

Reboot the MCU and DCU
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 10/4/2025, 10:06 AM
@WalletsClosed - Cap. Born Again Season 1 >>> DDs2.

Ep 1 was solid but it's gripes came from being made to set up a story that was already in motion. Ep 8 was fantastic. Great direction, incredible performances, and a sense of tension building throughout that culminated in that explosive ending. Ep 9 was brutal and set up a ton of shit I'm excited for.

I rewatched the original series and Season 2 is a slag to get through. It ruins multiple characters, has the weakest fights of both shows (in terms of choreography and logic), and ironically feels more like two different seasons stitched together more than this show which had an overhaul.

WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 10/4/2025, 10:40 AM
@HOTSHOT - Daredevil Season 2 is a 5/10 season. Born Again is a 2/10 at best and that's being generous. Nothing in Born Again comes even CLOSE to the first 4 episodes of season 2, the Punisher's trial, any episode featuring the punisher for that matter, or the finale. Not even close.
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 10/4/2025, 10:42 AM
@HOTSHOT - " has the weakest fights of both shows (in terms of choreography and logic)"

So I take it you didn't watch BA S1 Ep5-7 where in the bank filler episode he struggles against a random nobody bank robber with incredible slow choreography or what about when he faces off Muse twice and there's 1000 cuts a second in those scenes? Episode 7 of Born Again is THE WORST season of Daredevil by far. Born Again decimates every single character. Literally every single one is character assassinated. Especially Kingpin.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 10/4/2025, 10:55 AM
@WalletsClosed - The first eps of DDs2 had really cringey dialogue from Karen (particularly when talking to Grotto), subplots that are introduced and just dropped to pad up runtime, the big fight scene in the stairwell is so weirdly choreographed with blatant edits that make me wish it didn't bother trying to be one-take, and side characters introduced whose purpose is just "make threats and then to the next scene."

I don't hate those 4 eps. They got a lot of great stuff in them. Frank's talk with Matt on the roof, the kiss in the rain, the cemetary scene. But not only is that stuff not the entire eps, but what follows kinda ruins those eps for me as well since I know what a lame payoff they're building up to.

The Punisher's trial sucked. The whole process lasted like 4 eps, only for the one memorable thing to be Frank ruining it at the end. That's it. The Hector Ayala stuff was more gripping because it was more compact, had more to say, the arguments made by both sides were actually engaging, it mirrored Matt's own arc in a great way, and the conclusion wasn't "oh Hector decides to just ruin the whole trial."

The gutpunch of him finally getting out after all that effort only to get shot down in the streets was tragic.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 10/4/2025, 11:00 AM
@WalletsClosed - If you mean the fight in the bank where it's intentionally meant to portay that he's focusing less on landing hard hits and more on keeping it quiet: Yes. I enjoyed that more. The fight against the leader was also fun in that ep. Ep 6's fight with Muse was fantastic. Yes. Ep 7 is the weakest ep and I hate how many cuts are in that fight. I'll grant you that.

But at the same time, I prefer that to the fight in S2 that attempted to be one take and did a poor job of it. If someone were to ask me if I prefer the Winter Soldier fight with 100 cuts and the Oldboy Remake's lame attempt at a one-shot fight: I'll pick the former.

Do a good fight in one-shot or don't do it at all.

Born Again doesn't assassinate anyone's character outside the one it literally assisinates at the start. Kingpin is great in it. To see him try and fail to be less of a crime lord and then build up all that anger across the season until it climaxes in the single goriest kill he or any other MCU character has done? I thought that was great.


Born Again is not a perfect show, but it's not a 2/10. My biggest gripes with it are some of the editing and the clear mix of two different takes on the show due to reshoots.

But I had a much more entertaining time with it than the slow slag that was DD s2. Of which the 4 eps you listed, are bogged own by like 9 other eps I couldn't stand.

DD Season 3 is still the best season. But Born Again is definitely a step up from S2.
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 10/4/2025, 11:05 AM
@HOTSHOT - We're just going to agree to disagree. Those first 4 episodes are easily the second best streak of episodes in Daredevil, only second to being basically all of Season 3 lol. The stairway fight is better than ANY fight in Born Again. I don't remember everything, but from what I do remember, it blows Born Again out the water. Ayala's trial was incredibly rushed and featured amazing character assassination with Matt outing Hector's identity, something he'd NEVER do. The "gut punch" just made it point to make that episode even worse than it already was. What was the point? Not only did it not make sense, but it was a waste of time. I'll admit, the Netflix show had pacing problems, but damn if the Frank trial used those episodes (I think it was 3 episodes not 4) to do something great.
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 10/4/2025, 11:08 AM
@HOTSHOT - All I know is

Episode 1-4, 6-9, 10 and 13 are ALL better than Born Again. I will admit, the episodes I didn't name are pretty bad. But 10 episodes out of 13 aren't bad at all. Meanwhile, Born Again is 0/9
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 10/4/2025, 11:10 AM
@HOTSHOT - "If you mean the fight in the bank where it's intentionally meant to portay that he's focusing less on landing hard hits and more on keeping it quiet: Yes. I enjoyed that more. The fight against the leader was also fun in that ep. Ep 6's fight with Muse was fantastic."

That's not what was happening. I mean when they were in the alley and not around anyone else. He genuinely struggled against some random bank robber and the editing and choreography was horrendous. The choreography with the Muse fight was fine in 6, but the editing messed it up. For 7, both the choreography and editing were awful.

I'll take ANY fight from the original series over these
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 10/4/2025, 11:22 AM
@WalletsClosed - I honestly only call Ep 4 great from that lineup. The rest were good to okay. Season 3 is top-tier from start to finish. No notes.

I rewatched Season 2 last week while binging the whole show again. And nah that fight takes me out. It has some stuff I like but the longer it goes on, the weaker it gets. After that, I watched the fight with Muse in Ep 6 of BA and I also saw the Ep 9 fights and I didn't go "damn that was so weirdly put together. It took me out."

Ayala's trial wasn't rushed. We had an episode introducing the conflict and its players as well as the initial hearing. The next episode was entirely the trial and we saw all its components. The initial plan. The struggle to get it done. The failure of the plan (which actually made me upset). Then the buildup until Matt's surprising tactic.

Which wasn't character assassination because:

1. Matt at that point was against the concept of vigilantism in his character arc.
2. Their only viable way of getting Hector out failed so he had to take a big swing in order to turn the court around on their view of Hector: make him a hero.

Which also mirrored Matt slowly accepting the good DD did.

The point of that gutpunch was to show that the system (the thing Matt was relying on) isn't enough. The second he gets out, he's shot by a cop. It wasn't just some random shooting for the sake of it. That was the key event that pushed him to start practicing for his return as DD in Ep 4' ending.

My key issue with Frank's trial among the things I listed is that it feels like the stakes for it don't matter to the guy who it should affect. Frank doesn't care much, and the stakes are literally "will the Punisher get the death sentence or not?" Gee I wonder if they'll just execute The Punisher right off the bat. So it's really frustrating that they prolonged that for 4 episodes with the payoff being a scene that's cool in a vaccuum but frustrating with that context.

Meanwhile Hector and those around him are emotionally invested in the outcome of the trial, so I'm able to care too. Hector going to prison or getting out are equally possible outcomes that feel more legible. Plus the latter had so much against it, that seeing it finally work after all that struggling was satisfying. We didn't need to make the trial 37% of the season.

DD S2:

1-3: okay to good.
4: Great
5-7: Bad
8-9: good
11-13: Bad.

Born Again:
1- Solid
2- Okay
3- Great
4- Great
5- Solid
6- Awesome
7- mid
8- Awesome
9- Awesome

It's fine if you prefer one over the other. Different strokes and all that. But I do feel there's more to appreciate in Born Again that you're not really acknowleding. I acknowledge the strengths of DDs2 while pointing out why it doesn't work for me.
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 10/4/2025, 9:57 AM
I just hope it’s better. Season 1 was pretty forgettable after so much time and hype
RolandD
RolandD - 10/4/2025, 10:06 AM
This is one of my most anticipated for next year, especially with the one, unifying vision.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/4/2025, 10:50 AM
@RolandD - yep same

Honestly Marvel Studios as a whole next year is pretty exciting imo!!.

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HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 10/4/2025, 10:07 AM
I'm hyped. I enjoyed Season 1 while it was imperfect due it clearly being reshot like hell. But the eps done by these showrunners were the best part, and some of my favorites in both shows. Plus, Loki S2 was fantastic.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 10/4/2025, 10:13 AM
Good. It needs to have a singular storyline and not a bunch of random episodes pieced together after a creative rehaul. The new creative team definitely saved Season 1. And since they are in charge of the entirety of Season 2, We are in for a treat.
Huskers
Huskers - 10/4/2025, 10:15 AM
I didn’t even watch all of season 1, stopped watching midway, but did check out the finale. It was all over the place and so disappointing after what came before, which I loved!
bobevanz
bobevanz - 10/4/2025, 10:38 AM
That's funny he said that because the first and last episode are the only 2 I actually cared about.
MisterBones
MisterBones - 10/4/2025, 10:47 AM
Fingers crossed. Season 1 was a messy meal

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