TV Show review
March 4, 2025 · TV-MA · Returning Series
Woke Score
Lower is better
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Daredevil: Born Again.
Woke representation / casting
Supporting roles feature several diverse actors in new lawyer, journalist, and ally positions; audience complaints exist about emphasis and initial sidelining of legacy white characters, though main heroes stay canon-faithful with no identity swaps.
Woke political dialogue
Season 2 includes direct framing of the mayor’s anti-vigilante policies and task force as oppressive and fascist-like, with explicit real-world parallels to conservative governance and enforcement tactics that viewers can clearly recognize.
Identity-driven story themes
Minor empowerment elements appear in ally arcs and mantle-passing, but the core narrative stays on moral conflict, vigilantism ethics, and power struggles rather than centering race, gender, or sexuality identity politics.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Season 2 strongly depicts government institutions, police forces, and mayoral authority as corrupt and authoritarian under a clear conservative analog, with heroic resistance, protests, and exposés presented in modern activist-style terms of systemic oppression.
Review
Daredevil: Born Again follows blind lawyer Matt Murdock as he returns to vigilantism after giving it up, clashing with Wilson Fisk who becomes New York mayor and builds an anti-vigilante police force. Across two seasons the story centers on their collision, corruption in the system, and a growing resistance effort with allies including returning characters like Karen Page. Season 2 ramps up political themes that draw clear parallels to real-world U.S. events, including critiques of authority and institutional power that some viewers notice as overt messaging.
Woke character or canon changes
Story adjustments and supporting cast additions occurred, but no major identity-driven or DEI-motivated rewrites to established Daredevil or Kingpin characters or source canon.
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Online videos and posts specifically attack anti-conservative messaging, anti-cop framing, political allegories, and casting; responses from cast deny agenda-pushing; remains a noticeable but minority reaction.
Creator track record context
Key team led by Dario Scardapane with some political theme experience; original writers and most directors/producers show neutral or low activist histories focused on craft rather than identity or DEI priorities.
Production
