| L Being 2 for 2 on my Netflix Marvel catalog, I decided to bite the bullet and start checking the rest of the Marvel extended universe shows off my list. Except I went about it completely backwards. Since we haven?t had a Jessica Jones sequel to the brilliant first season in a while, I figured my best bet would be the ensemble show released a few months ago, featuring Jessica, Luke Cage, Daredevil and The Iron Fist. Sadly, the show didn?t really live up to my expectations, because everything about it felt too cartoonish. The dialogue was corny, the delivery even more so, and the villains simply horrendous. I?ve never been a Sigourney Weaver fan and this show really doesn?t do her many favors; I had no idea who Elektra was going in, and the show did nothing to endear her to me. The entire plotline about ?The Hand? was also new to me, having skipped out on Daredevil, and unlike the villains on Jessica Jones and The Punisher, every single member was simply too awful and two-dimensional to be actually interesting. Even worse, the constant squabbles between the heroes, who had to work together to defeat their common enemies, became quite annoying after a point. I don?t know if it was the much too cartoonish vibe of the overall show that turned me off, or the fact that I hadn?t been properly introduced to the whole idea of ?superheroes forging rocky alliances to battle their common foes? by way of the MCU movies that preceded the shows, but The Defenders simply left me cold, despite featuring several admittedly strong action scenes. |
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