of any Marvel character on TV or movies, IMO.
For some reason, Daredevil was always one of my favorite Marvel characters growing up in the 70s (I think Gene Colan's art had something to do with it). I say "for some reason" because looking back, that was really not all that good a period in the character's history, which went through a great two-part run by Frank Miller in the 80s when I was in college and had decided to put away childish things, so to speak (a lot of comic fans have that donut hole in the middle where they stopped reading comics during college). I picked those up much later in collected volumes, and they are, like the first great wave in the character's history that gave us the whole Electra thing in the first run (which the god awful movie with Ben Affleck tried to do) and Born Again run when he returned to the series a little later (where he had Matt Murdock lose everything in his life, turned him into a bum, practically and built him up again).
The thing to know about Daredevil is that the character, Matt Murdock was the Marvel universe's Miles O'Brien (if you know, you know) in that starting with Miller's second run and through maybe mid '10s, the game was to put him through one grinder after another, which works well because the Catholicism built into the character (he's ridden with guilt and has to constantly go through redemption cycles). And maybe it speaks to my latent sadistic drive or something, but I loved it. It was great drama. It also had the effect of turning him into this dour character who never laughs (kinda like Batman) whereas when I started with him in the 70s he was a jokey, happy-go-lucky character, like Peter Parker minus the stereotypical New York Ashkenazi angst. (I still pick up Daredevil books every now and then but these days he's more like an angry avenger and maybe a tad too much like Batman for my taste -- i want the broken but hopeful Matt Murdock back)
The Netflix series that started the street level Marvel adaptations was, in my mind, very good. D'onofrio is a magnificent Kingpin with the barely contained seething anger underneath that whispering, towering bulk, Charlie Cox captured the essence of his character, Murdock, and the side characters, especially Foggy Nelson and Karen Page were dead on as well. It was very well done as a series. It suffered from the same "not enough material for 13 episodes" problem that all those shows suffered from (I can't speak about Punisher; that's a character that never spoke to me at any level), but overall those three seasons were very good.
So when Disney picked it up again, I was worried that they would lighten it up, but they didn't. It's not the exact same "Born Again" story, but some of the themes are there. The whole Kingpin as the mayor of NYC thing was done in the books, maybe in the late 10s? Foggy and Karen are not in the series all that much, replaced by a later addition to the lore, Kirsten McDufie (the last name is a nod at Dwayne McDuffie, a major AA creator who made industry waves by pointing out the lilywhite nature of the pantheon, and who had died around that time) and she's handled well. The story is more about Murdock coming back to the Daredevil role over time, a common trope that works well on screen because it gives us more Charlie Cox time.
I really really enjoyed it. Partly because I was already primed to like it, but also, I think it's a good series. Best of the bunch on Disney perhaps. Loki season 1 was also extra fun in a Doctor Who kinda way. But, you know, the dark and grim Daredevil, I'm all in.
Yeah, it's on Disney+. Blame me for not having written this up sooner.