Tuesday TV Touchbase: Daredevil: Born Again

First of all, a rant about Wheel of Fortune and a repeated stupid move being made by some of the players this season. It happened again last week.  

In the final round, if time is running out, the wheel is given a final spin and $1,000 is added to whatever the wheel lands on. In the instance from last week, the wheel landed on $600 so each correct constantant guessed was worth $1,600. 

Then each player in turn guesses a letter until someone can solve the puzzle. 

Last week, someone who had no money blurted out the answer to the puzzle without choosing a letter first. They got the house minumum (what I call pity money) of $1,000 for solving the puzzle. If they had given at least one letter from the puzzle before blurting out the answer, the player would have won $600 more.  

This was not the first time I've witnessed this happening this season and I'm wondering, have these people actually watched the show before? 

Enough of the rant. On to the Touchbase.  

And we're back with a second season of Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again.  

This is not an easy show to watch.

The violence is graphic and brutal. Lots of blood and broken bones. 

Yet somehow I talked Andrea into watching this with me.

It's also not easy due to the really troubling parallels to real life.

Any comparisons between former Kingpin now Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) and his anti-vigilante task force and Donald Trump and ICE may be just a coincidence.

Or it's the fucking point.

You decide. 

Fisk is pinning anything that goes wrong in New York City on vigilantes. It's is one size fits all problem which fits his own size fits all solution which is to sieze power for himself and rule NYC with an iron fist. 

All the while engaging in his own criminal enterprises to enrich himself with total impunity with no oversight from anyone. 

Am I watching a Marvel, super hero show or CNN?

Well, Matt Murdock has suited up as Daredevil in defiance of Fisk's anti-vigilante full court press to expose whatever shit Fisk has got going on.  

Like the ship full of military grade arms coming up the river to Fisk's private port. When Daredevil stages a raid on the ship, the vessel's captain sinks the ship on his bosses orders in case of an attack.  

Except Wilson Fisk is pissed off the ship got sunk and sends his task force to search for the hapless captain.  

An agent for the CIA known only as Mr. Charles shows up and tells Fisk he can clean up the mess of guns in the river.

What the hell is Fisk up to? And if the CIA is involved, how high up does it go?  

As of episode one of the 2nd season, she hasn't shown up but she has been name checked, "she" being Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. I'm really looking forward to seeing our favorite super powered private eye back on TV once again.

There are no day-glo super heroics going on here. Daredevil: Born Again is very dark and gritty and given the real world parallels, the show can be quite disturbing.  

To quote Capt. Kirk, "The odds are against us and the situation is grim."  But Matt Murdock, battered, beaten and running out of time and options, still thinks he can win against Wilson Fisk.

The Kingpin has an entire city and an army.

Matt Murdock only has Daredevil.

And maybe more? Could it be long time nemesis and the bastard who assassinated Foggy Nelson last season, Bullsetye, is on Matt's side in his war against the Kingpin?

We'll have to wait and see as we anxiously await the dramatic return of Jessica Jones.

TOO MUCH TV!

• As I write this, I've got 2 episodes to go to finish season 2 of Fallout.  
• I'm already behind 2 episodes of  the new season of Invincible.
• And I've got season 2 of Deadloch waiting for me.  
• And I just saw that the 5th season of Hacks will be debuting next week.  
• I am staying on top of Outlander as I want to avoid spoilers on Jamie Fraser's fate. Is he going to die in battle at Kings Mountain as predicted in Frank Randall's book? 

And there's all the stuff I watch with Andrea and....

Whew! It's a lot! 

For now, that is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase.

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.