![]() I have really enjoyed Vanessa on this series, and it looks like she’s becoming more and more like Fisk. She reminds me of Maria Pitillo’s character from the really shitty 1998 Godzilla movie. I think that the show is teasing a face turn for Marci, but it’s really hard to care about her. Although Foggy gave Matt the cold shoulder early in the episode, he also told Marci that he didn’t think that “the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen” was a terrorist. Meanwhile, Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) is trying to coax a soul out of his ex-girlfriend, Marci Stahl (Amy Rutberg) while going after Fisk without Matt’s direct help. Now, Karen and Matt actually have an emotional bond with each other. Here, Matt breaks down before admitting that he can’t do this alone and he even tells Karen about Stick without mentioning his name. One of the few shortcomings of Daredevil Season 1 is that Matt and Karen barely had any scenes together with just the two of them. That last scene between Karen and Matt was a long time in coming. ![]() And perhaps he’ll figure it out in the finale. But maybe Matt was simply too preoccupied with his own drama. It seemed like a cheat that Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) didn’t sense any of Karen’s ordeal during their encounter at the end of the episode. Speaking of Karen, Deborah Ann Woll convincingly portrayed her guilt even though she was justified in taking Wesley’s life. Karen is probably not out of the woods yet. Fisk and Wesley called each other friends, and it was clearly a connection that they both felt. While Fisk is relieved that Vanessa survived the attempt on her life, Wesley’s death devastates him. We haven’t seen Fisk this vulnerable since his first date with Vanessa Marianna (Ayelet Zurer). If nothing else, Ben protected Karen one more time by insisting that he was alone when he visited Marlene. I think that Fisk was hoping that Ben was behind the death of James Wesley (Toby Leonard Moore) as well, but Fisk wasn’t so blinded by rage that he misread Ben’s reaction to Wesley’s name. I hate to say it, but that is kind of Karen’s fault for dragging Ben upstate to see Marlene Vistain (Phyllis Somerville). I’m sure that’s part of the reason that Ben was chosen for this episode’s dramatic death, as Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) drops by to apologize for thinking that Ben was irrelevant… right before murdering Ben for getting too close to Fisk’s mother. I fully expect that Netflix and Marvel will decide to continue doing Daredevil seasons, but Ben’s absence leaves a hole that can’t easily be filled. It took me a while to warm up to this incarnation of Ben, but he’s a vital part of Daredevil’s supporting cast. If you only have one season of Daredevil, then I can see killing off Ben Urich. So let’s get the spoiler warning out of the way and jump into it. That luck ran out in the penultimate episode of Daredevil Season 1. In my last review of Daredevil, I mentioned that either Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) or Ben Urich (Vondie Curtis-Hall) could have been expendable before the twist ending revealed that neither of them was going to die in that episode.
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