Daredevil and Bullseye Come Face to Face While Lives Hang in the Balance in This Week's Born Again

Full spoilers follow for Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Episode 5, "The Grand Design,” which is streaming on Disney+ now. Though the action scenes are definitely a highlight of Daredevil: Born Again, it’s a testament to the core characters that this episode – one where we got no actual Daredevil fight scenes – still works so well. The focus here was mainly on whether Vanessa would survive or not, but the scenes set in the past both upped the poignancy already present in the Fisk and Vanessa relationship, as twisted as those two are, while also spotlighting a key character in DD history, Foggy Nelson, and underlining his significance. There was some great material here between Matt and Dex, as Matt balanced his core belief in saving Dex’s life – powered by his guilt over nearly killing him himself in Season 1 – with the fact that Bullseye is freaking Bullseye and that Dex’s mere mention of Foggy had Matt grabbing and choking the guy he was trying to save. I mentioned in my review of last week’s episode that it was amusing to see the aspect ratio change when we got some clips from the Netflix series, but the newly filmed flashbacks here had a very cool touch of maintaining that old