<em>Daredevil</em>: A Long-Form Approach to Comic-Book Television
Marvel’s first show with Netflix borrows its gritty look and feel from Frank Miller, but stays true to the binge-friendly nature of comic books and streaming services.
Comic-book storytelling has long seemed more compatible with the arc of a television season than it is with film: For all the success of superhero movies that can devote their inflated budgets to special effects, two hours simply isn’t enough time to do anything truly interesting with plot. Marvel has been playing with longer narrative arcs for years now with its films, which are knitted together within one big, interlinked universe. But the strong first season of, which just dropped on the binge-friendly Netflix as 13 episodes, proves the material might have finally found
