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Netflix’s Marvel TV shows will disappear at the end of this month

2022-02-11T13:49:32-05:00

Before Disney Plus, Netflix's Marvel TV shows were pushing the edge of MCU-adjacent content on streaming, but soon, you won't be able to watch Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Punisher, or The Defenders on Netflix anymore.

News of the pending removal surfaced earlier today at What's on Netflix, as viewers noticed flags on the shows in the Netflix app. Spokespeople for Netflix and Disney who declined to be named publicly have confirmed to The Verge that Netflix's license ends February 28th.

Polygon points out that this shift is coming just after a few characters from the Netflix shows popped up in the Marvel Cinematic Univers …

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Since season 1, Jessica Jones has struggled to mix horror with superheroes

2019-06-18T14:33:18-04:00

Significant spoilers ahead for season 1 of Jessica Jones.

The horror and superhero genres approach the world from opposite directions. Horror is meant to make the audience feel disempowered and terrorized. Superhero stories, by contrast, make viewers feel empowered and triumphant. Both genres often set out to give the audience the same thing - a big, satisfying burst of catharsis - but in different ways, and for different reasons.

But at the same time, the genres draw liberally from each other. To heighten the empowerment sensation, the superhero genre often uses horror elements. In the recent film Shazam!, the hero is menaced by oozing, h …

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Jessica Jones’ final season is tighter and smarter

2019-06-10T14:53:22-04:00

Warning: Significant spoilers ahead for the previous season of Jessica Jones.

"Giving a shit sucks," super-strong PI Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) says in the third season of her Marvel Cinematic Universe series Jessica Jones. That's practically her mantra for this final season of the show. She's a hard-drinking loner, she's angry and bitter, and that's practically her brand. Keeping this philosophy in mind lets her stay a bitter loner even as she turns more and more into a conventional superhero by trying to play by the rules and help people who need it.

The 13-episode season, which will be the finale for both Jessica Jones and the entir …

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Jessica Jones’ final season trailer pits Marvel’s hero against yet another creepy villain

2019-05-28T12:05:28-04:00

The final season of Netflix's Marvel show Jessica Jones is almost here, and its kickoff trailer teases a dynamic fans are familiar with: Jones versus creepy villain.

The trailer doesn't provide many clues about what the upcoming season has in store. The 35-second video focuses on a creepy voice threatening to kill Jessica Jones as she hangs out in her apartment-turned-detective agency. If you slow down the trailer enough, however, you do get a glimpse of this season's menace.

Netflix's official plot description has a few more details to offer: "When Jessica (Krysten Ritter) crosses paths with a highly intelligent psychopath, she and Trish …

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In season 2, The Punisher feels like he’s trapped in the past

2019-01-16T11:34:21-05:00

Spoiler warning: This review reveals major plot points from The Punisher's first season, and it lays out storylines from season 2.

In the first episode of season 2 of Netflix's Marvel Cinematic Universe series The Punisher, a character asks revenge-driven vigilante Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) when he lost his family. He responds, "There are times where it feels like yesterday. Sometimes it feels like a million years ago." That's a telling answer from a character weighing whether he can finally move past the tragedy that transformed him into the antihero The Punisher. Unfortunately, showrunner Steve Lightfoot also seems conflicted about how …

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A new trailer for Netflix’s Punisher teases a bloody season 2

2019-01-10T12:26:08-05:00

At the end of The Punisher's first season, Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) got a new lease on life after tangling with a group of corrupt military officials who covered up war crimes in Afghanistan. But as we saw in the first teaser for season 2, that clean slate he earned is short-lived. The first full trailer for the second season shows Castle being pulled out of retirement and into another bloody vigilante battle.

Castle is brought back into action when he helps a young woman, Amy Bendix (played by Giorgia Whigham), who is attacked in a bar. "What was I supposed to do?" Castle asks her. "I had to get involved." That fight kicks off what look …

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Daredevil’s ‘suffering makes a man’ trope is common, familiar, and bad for everyone

2018-10-24T15:13:06-04:00

Like the first two seasons of Netflix's Daredevil series, the third season loves to show its hero getting beaten up. For the first few episodes, Daredevil, aka Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), is convalescing after the events in Netflix's Defenders crossover miniseries, and the camera lingers lovingly on his battered face and body, watching him stagger about the screen in an ecstasy of infirmity and pain. When he's somewhat recovered and back battling bad guys, the fight sequences are grinding, extended affairs. Viewers are meant to feel it viscerally every time a nose shatters or a rib cracks. Murdock emerges from each conflict bloodied, bruised …

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Netflix has canceled Marvel’s Luke Cage

2018-10-20T10:06:41-04:00

Just a week after it announced that Iron Fist wouldn't return for a third season, Marvel has revealed that another of its Netflix shows won't continue: Luke Cage. The series aired its second season earlier this summer.

Marvel and Netflix confirmed to Deadline that the show "will not return for a third season." The cancelation comes as a surprise, as it was widely expected to be renewed for an additional season. Unlike Iron Fist, which Marvel indicated might continue on in some form, this reads as a definitive end for the series. It's a shame, because Luke Cage has consistently been held up as one of the better shows in the franchise, while …

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Marvel’s Iron Fist won’t get a third season on Netflix

2018-10-13T09:04:04-04:00

Marvel's Iron Fist won't get a third season. Disney has confirmed that it has canceled the show, but hinted that it might not be the end of the road for the superhero.

Iron Fist is one of several in a joint Marvel/Netflix shared universe, set alongside Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and The Punisher. It follows billionaire Danny Rand (Finn Jones), who reappears after vanishing fifteen years ago, who trained as a monk to become a martial arts master known as the Immortal Iron Fist. The series just aired its second season on Netflix back in September, and coupled with a new showrunner, it improved over its lackluster first season.

In a …

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In Daredevil season 3, the protagonist is weak, but the series is stronger than ever

2018-10-12T12:17:01-04:00

Spoilers ahead for The Defenders and the general plot of Daredevil season 3.

After nearly dying at the end of Netflix's 2017 crossover miniseries The Defenders, Matt Murdock (aka Daredevil) needed some downtime. As season 3 of the Netflix series Daredevil begins, Matt (Charlie Cox) returns to the church where he was raised and takes some time to heal physically as well as mentally and spiritually. Murdock wasn't the only one who needed to do some soul-searching after Daredevil's uneven second season and The Defenders not quite living up to its hype. The Man in the High Castle showrunner Erik Oleson took over Daredevil this season, and he's …

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