Charlie Cox Was Not a Fan of This New ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Episode

I’m still shocked that the MCU could recreate most of the magic we got from Daredevil. The Charlie Cox-led series was the best thing to come out of Marvel’s Netflix venture, and one of the best things to come out of the MCU … ever. It was really good, and I did not think reviving it on Disney+ would be successful. There were risks the show took on Netflix that I did not think they would take on the Mouse House’s streaming network. Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio felt the same way.

Six episodes of the new season of Daredevil had been filmed when the show received an overhaul. The show was going to be a reboot instead of continuing the story that had been established on Netflix. To be fair, that show quickly separated itself from the MCU it was born from, but reinserting it wouldn’t have been an issue. Fans were psyched to see Cox return in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and fans who aren’t jerks were excited to see him in She-Hulk. The show was rearranged to fit a new narrative, but not everything was scrapped.

Cox recently sat down for an interview with The Playlist and still seems annoyed by the earlier work on the show, especially when it pertains to one episode that made it through to the new material. “I dunno if this is of interest, but I will say this amongst all of this, there was one episode we didn’t change at all,” Cox noted on the show. “It’s the episode in the bank, and that was part of the original [shoot]. We shot that before the strike. That was part of the original [draft], and just for my money, I wasn’t into it.”

The episode in question takes place during a bank robbery and includes Kamala Khan’s dad, Yusuf, played by Mohan Kapur. It is definitely the most MCU-like episode of the show. But I’ll admit that I had no problem with it when I watched it. Maybe not the best, but definitely a “the worst day fishing is still better than the best day working” kind of situation for me. Daredevil is such a good show that even its weakest outings are better than others’ strongest. Charlie Cox doesn’t care.

“That feels like a 1970s game,” Cox explained. “Too much technology these days for that to work. And also, I didn’t think the actual device used for the theft was sophisticated enough.” What he’s saying makes sense, but he also admits the episode did very well. “I really pushed back on the episode, and yet I hear from so many people that they love that episode, he admitted. “So, it just goes to show you just don’t know. It’s so subjective. Everyone’s taste is different. And I’ve heard that that episode is one of the highest-rated. Internally, when they do their ratings, it’s one of the highest-rated Disney shows that they’ve had.”

I don’t know if the original plan for Daredevil would have been any good. If the eps were all like the one in question, it (likely) wouldn’t have been terrible. But the lead person involved would have been miserable, and that never goes well.