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Season 1 of Daredevil: Born Again is a wonder, because Marvel Studios managed to completely eschew their original plans for the season in favor of releasing the show's original writers and rewriting and reshooting new episodes midway through production.

Originally announced as an 18 episode season, Born Again season 1 was then retooled to a 9 episode season, and brought back popular characters from the original Netflix show, like Elden Henson's Foggy Nelson, Deborah Ann Woll's Karen Page, Jon Bernthal's Punisher, and Wilson Bethel's Bullseye... and thank goodness the Netflix show's returning cast returned. 

Speaking at LA Comic Con 2025, Vincent D'Onofrio spoke about how he and series star Charlie Cox felt they had to uphold a level of quality that Daredevil fans were used to for Born Again Season 1. "We had many, many conversations about the fact that we were on a train that we felt we needed to stop. And it was a big decision to make for us to be truthful with the studio and with our bosses and with the producers," the actor explained.

"Basically our plan was just to give notes, give notes, give notes, give note. We would talk about it, we were in on each of our own notes, we'd share emails, and send the group emails, and none of it was working. They weren't taking us seriously. And then we finally got the ear of who we needed to get the ear of. And we were so lucky, unfortunately, it wasn't lucky for other people, but the actors went on strike. And then when that happened, our bosses, the guys who run the studio, were allowed to look at the 6 [episodes] we had shot. And that's when they started [rethinking it]." 

As a result, Born Again season 1 is a hodgepodge of both existing material from the original 18 episode plan, and new material that included previous Netflix characters and that was more in line with what fans would be expecting from a Daredevil show. Considering that season 3 of the Netflix show ends with a teaser of Wilson Bethel's Benjamin Poindexter fully embracing his new identity (and physicality) as Bullseye, I probably would have ended up angrily running around the subway tunnels of Manhattan if Born Again hadn't featured any Bullseye whatsoever. Luckily for me, and for the citizens of New York, that didn't happen. 

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