Netflix premiered the entire first season of Marvel's Daredevil at midnight last night when I was sleeping like a normal human being. I LOVE TO SLEEP! I love it even more than staying up to watch another superhero TV show... I know, call me crazy. ANYWAY. I've rounded up some of the early reviews so you can decide whether to binge watch it tonight, or, you know, SLEEP. You're welcome.

From the Telegraph:

Handsome, meticulously paced and with a break-out performance from [Charlie] Cox, it has the potential to transcend the geek ghetto and become Netflix's biggest hit this side of House of Cards.

From the A.V. Club:

Through the first five episodes at least, the various plots and subplots—most of them involving gang wars and shady business dealings that inflict collateral damage on the residents of Hell’s Kitchen—aren’t compelling or original enough to earn an active “Yes, I’d like to see more of this.” Instead, what Daredevil has are one or two moments per episode that may be exciting or promising enough to keep Neflix subscribers from hitting the stop button before the next episode auto-plays.

From the LA Times:

Some story lines are weaker than others... and though the body count is relatively low, certain deaths are unnervingly brutal (heads are literally bashed in). But the cast is universally strong and the writers... remain resolute in their convictions.

From Entertainment Weekly:

Like Gotham, Daredevil has a few too many ripe lines about what it means to be a hero, a few too many “THIS IS MY CITY” soliloquies. It’s trying to be a lot of things—a lawyer show, a superhero saga, a crime epic, a city symphony—and it doesn’t succeed at everything. But there’s an energy to the first five episodes, a feeling that this show can try everything.

From Slate:

Netflix’s Daredevil is a shock to the senses in a number of ways, but the first and biggest is that it’s really, really good. I’ve watched only the first five episodes, but so far Daredevil is the best superhero television show I’ve ever seen; more than that, it stands among the best screen ventures that Marvel has yet undertaken. It’s dark and gripping, smart and sure-footed, and takes itself and its audience seriously while avoiding either pretentious brooding or fanboy pandering. It’s also adventurous and different, in a way a show this good was always going to need to be. It’s the first modern small-screen comic adaptation that doesn’t seem to be lustily glancing at the multiplex.

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