Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 premieres on Disney+ next week, and the social media embargo lifted earlier today (full reviews will follow next week). Before we get into the news promised above, here's what we thought...
Now, those runtimes. Daredevil: Born Again will release new episodes weekly, unlike Wonder Man, which dropped all eight instalments on the same day back in January.
Thanks to runtime and trailer insider @Cryptic4KQual, we can share how long each chapter of Season 2 will be...
Episode 1: 51 minutes
Episode 2: 46 minutes
Episode 3: 47 minutes
Episode 4: 51 minutes
Episode 5: 50 minutes
Episode 6: 49 minutes
Episode 7: 44 minutes
Episode 8: 51 minutes
The runtimes above include recaps and credits. With that in mind, you can shave a few minutes off each. Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 is an episode shorter than Season 1, and Season 3 will also be 8 episodes.
Netflix's Daredevil series was frequently criticised for being overlong at 13 episodes, and it certainly wouldn't have hurt Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 to trim a little fat (had Charlie Cox had his way, that would have been the bank heist episode).
In related news, Kingpin actor Vincent D'Onofrio recently spoke with Take a Look, and possibly said a little too much about what to expect from the show when it returns.
Firstly, the actor revealed that the boxing match teased in set photos and trailers for Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 ends "badly." While that's not a huge spoiler, what he said next might be considered one by many fans.
"I guess I kind of knew, inevitably, that it would end the way it does in the second season," D'Onofrio teased. "But I didn't imagine how, particularly. It's very different to see what happens to him at the end of the second season. It's a very different feel. We pick up from what [those] events have done to him in the third season. You get to meet him and what he's become after that."
Speculation continues to run rampant about Season 3 revolving around either The Hand or Daredevil and Mayor Wilson Fisk in prison. Is that what D'Onofrio is teasing here? There are only a couple of months until everyone finds out.
In Daredevil: Born Again, survival, resistance and redemption collide as the battle for the soul of New York begins. In Season 2, Mayor Wilson Fisk crushes New York City underfoot as he hunts down public enemy number one, the Hell’s Kitchen vigilante known as Daredevil.
But beneath the horned mask, Matt Murdock will try to fight back from the shadows to tear down the Kingpin’s corrupt empire and redeem his home. Resist. Rebel. Rebuild.
Created by Dario Scardapane, Chris Ord and Matt Corman, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 stars Charlie Cox as the titular masked vigilante (aka Matt Murdock) and Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk.
Daredevil: Born Again returns to Disney+ on March 24.