<p>Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget – or so it&#8217;s said by someone that must not have been Foggy Nelson or Matt Murdock. What&#8217;s a guy to do when he finds his best friend on the ground wearing a ninja suit? That&#8217;s exactly the question hanging over our two gentlemen for the better half of <em>Daredevil </em>as much as Fisk for better or for worse.</p>
<p><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05001031/Daredevil-Netflix-S1-Nelson-V.-Murdoc-BagoGames.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-82150 size-medium" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05001031/Daredevil-Netflix-S1-Nelson-V.-Murdoc-BagoGames.jpg" alt="Daredevil Netflix S1 'Nelson V. Murdoc' BagoGames" width="300" height="174" /></a></p>
<p>As its title would imply, <em>Nelson V Murdock</em> is all about the men of its namesake and that&#8217;s really quite enough. It&#8217;s a terribly familiar scenario that both of them find themselves in as far as genre conventions go. We&#8217;ve seen what happens to the hero when he&#8217;s unmasked at least a dozen times over and a lesser show could easily have skirted over and moved on from. Not so with New York&#8217;s Nelson and Murdock Law Office. In a series so much about flying fists and the occasional flying toaster oven, it&#8217;s just as gratifying to see words pack as hard of a punch and especially when they&#8217;re coming from two actors as talented as Elden Hanson and Charlie Cox.</p>
<p>This time, it&#8217;s Foggy who has to pick up the pieces of Matt&#8217;s double life and even save it. That Matt&#8217;s lied about basically everything, late night crime fighting included, is something he can&#8217;t forgive. The questions that begs to ask about the both of them are hard and the answers either of them can give are naturally unsatisfying, but strikingly honest. It&#8217;s <em>Nelson V Murdock</em>&#8216;s campy college flashbacks that reminds me just how much I enjoy watching Matt and Foggy do anything together. Hanson&#8217;s Foggy probably does rock a mullet better than anyone in this series as easily as he does impromptu Yoda impressions while Cox exudes a quiet wisdom beyond his years befitting his straight man schtick of the duo. That nothing can ever be the same between them is a deliberately human strength on the show makers part, but one that sees both of them coming out better for it.</p>
<p><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05001019/Daredevil-Netflix-S1-Path-of-the-Righteous-Claire-and-Matt-BagoGames.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-82153 size-medium" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05001019/Daredevil-Netflix-S1-Path-of-the-Righteous-Claire-and-Matt-BagoGames.jpg" alt="Daredevil Netflix S1 'Path of the Righteous' Claire and Matt BagoGames" width="300" height="174" /></a></p>
<p>Whether just one man can make a difference is something that drives Matt as much as<em> Daredevil</em><em> </em>which, for the first time in the series, really does leave Matt in a lonely place, sad little monkey balloon in hand. Matt&#8217;s a man very much the sum of his friends, ones that don&#8217;t take kindly to being shut down, including one Claire Temple. For the screen time Rosario Dawson&#8217;s given, she certainly makes up for it in levity, and powerful proof that not every actress need end up as a committed romantic interest – at least in the conventional sense. Not every one&#8217;s willing to wait for Matt forever, and maybe not even Matt.</p>
<p>Fans of the Marvel universe may take particular interest in these last few samplings of Daredevil&#8217;s first season as the show continues to brilliantly weave itself into the thicker fabric of its comic book roots. Spider-man fans might raise an eye at a certain (Miles?) Morales at Foggy and Matt&#8217;s first law gig and &#8220;that Greek girl&#8221; in Foggy&#8217;s Spanish class&#8230;Elektra, anyone?</p>
<p><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05001006/Daredevil-Netflix-S1-Path-of-the-Righteous-Kidnapped-BagoGames1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-82155 size-medium" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05001006/Daredevil-Netflix-S1-Path-of-the-Righteous-Kidnapped-BagoGames1.jpg" alt="Daredevil Netflix S1 'Path of the Righteous' Kidnapped BagoGames" width="300" height="174" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s <em>Paths of the Righteous</em> that puts everyone&#8217;s loyalties on the line, Karen&#8217;s included. Always the hopeful center to the show, a fateful confrontation with Wesley finally tests the cracks in Karen&#8217;s resolve. Though we haven&#8217;t gotten to know either character very well, their battle of the wills raises a revealing discussion and Deborah Ann Woll and Toby Leonard Moore carry it with chilling class. Suffice to say, Karen&#8217;s great at calling bluffs, if not manufacturing some herself, and the resulting fallout is one that&#8217;ll surely leave its mark beyond this season.</p>
<p>No one&#8217;s really as they seem in <em>Daredevil</em> as Matt himself proves time and again. Friends can become enemies and enemies become friends in Matt&#8217;s search for a suitable replacement to his <a href="https://bagogames.com/men-monsters-daredevil-episodes-7-9-review/">diminishing supply of black leotards</a> that takes him to a rather unlikely ally for some more serious superhero duds. Besides a hectic garage fight and Matt&#8217;s brutal version of twenty questions, <em>Paths</em> does provide the best not-Assassin&#8217;s Creed parkour chase with a sucker-punch of a surprise from Leland Owlsley&#8217;s shadowy small-talker, Madame Gao. Alongside Stick, Gao&#8217;s character is arguably the most frustrating loose end dangling from the show&#8217;s tassels, but call me interested by this tough old lady. But it does beg to ask, who can Matt be allowed to hit in this show, hmm?&#8230;</p>
<p>I might have changed <a href="https://bagogames.com/trial-by-fire-daredevil-episodes-4-6/">my tune about Owlsley</a>, the sneaky little bugger, if <em>Paths</em>&#8216; Red Wedding level disaster is any indication. A couple – okay, a <em>lot </em>of bad drinks leaves Fisk&#8217;s precious Vanessa and half his party guests foaming at the mouth, his one chance at a life in a hospital bed. As easily as a neon-sign emblazoned with &#8220;perp&#8221; could be pointing to Owlsley&#8217;s vicinity, it&#8217;s the women in Fisk&#8217;s life that take center stage here than crime, moreover their maternal power over him, figuratively or otherwise. It&#8217;s tender moments like these that I can&#8217;t help but love watching Fisk and Vanessa&#8217;s genuinely moving chemistry. But, for the love of God, don&#8217;t mess with Fisk&#8217;s real mommy.</p>
<p><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/04233638/Daredevil-S1-Paths-of-the-Righteous-Ben-BagoGames.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-82906 size-medium" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/04233638/Daredevil-S1-Paths-of-the-Righteous-Ben-BagoGames.jpg" alt="Daredevil S1 'Paths of the Righteous' Ben BagoGames" width="300" height="169" /></a></p>
<p>Of all the characters to get their fair share these three episodes, it&#8217;s fitting that Ben Urich get the best of it in the somber note that <em>The Ones We Leave Behind</em> implies. As the show&#8217;s straight-laced reporter (ugh, blogging!), it should come by extension that Ben&#8217;s shouldered the burden of the reluctant hero who doesn&#8217;t so easily resonate with the fantastical characters around him. Nevertheless, in a show all about shades of grey, it&#8217;s Ben&#8217;s unwavering honesty that come as the show&#8217;s beacon of hope.</p>
<p>Fisk&#8217;s empire is his image as much as his muscle and Ben&#8217;s sleuthing that&#8217;s Team Daredevil&#8217;s real weapon in a war of ideas. That Ben should choose to do the right thing for all the right reasons is a moving twist for a devoted husband we&#8217;re shown would much rather keep all he has to lose. It&#8217;s safe to say that <em>The Ones We Leave Behind</em> does justice to its namesake as the episode&#8217;s end credits roll.</p>
<p>If honesty is the best policy, then it&#8217;s <em>Daredevi</em>l&#8217;s cornerstone in building towards a heck of a finale. A break from the action paid off in spades as we got a personal look at every corner of our character&#8217;s lives and into their hearts. <em>Daredevil</em>&#8216;s just keeps beating with the same vigor it did in its debut and I trust it&#8217;ll keep mine &#8217;til its very end.</p>
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<p>All thirteen episodes of <em>Daredevil</em> are available for streaming through Netflix on TV, PC, tablet, mobile, and game consoles. Check back next week for our review of the season finale here at <a href="https://bagogames.com">BagoGames</a>.</p>

BagoGames > Articles > Geek Culture > TV Shows > Truth or Dare – Daredevil: Episodes 10-12 Review
Truth or Dare – Daredevil: Episodes 10-12 Review
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By Tim Gruver
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