Honestly, this season wasn't that good.

I was this close to expressing this opinion on reddit, but that's become such a fanboy circle jerk I'm thinking I'll just go here.

I see a whole lot praise for this season. Over-the-top. Every nook and crevice of the internet is screaming it's the next Dark Knight (another overrated movie might I add). Maybe I'm out of touch. I absolutely adored the first two seasons. But I found this one dull, tired and un-engaging. Than it dawned on me. Season 3 was so badly advertised the only people who watched it were hardened fans.

And looking at the praise it gets. Daredevil's fanbase is starting to look more cultish the more posts I see from them. Whole lot of raising this show on a pedestal so that anything that isn't Daredevil can gravel at its feet. You can't even hint to the Netflix MCU or a comic book show without a million broken records swarming in. Daredevil is the only good thing evah. No it's not. And the more fanatical those posts are the more I feel my own sanity being restored.

Let's be objective. S3 was a tired, lazy rehash. There's isn't a singe original plotline or character arc. Everything is rehashed and recycled.

Kingpin tries to make Daredevil out to be a public enemy. Check.
Rookie Daredevil in ghetto costume getting beaten up by basic fodder. Check.
Underdog lawyers try to beat Fisk the legal way. Check.
Matt debates if he should go the easy immoral route and kill him. Foggy argues Check check.
Large sprawling talks about how dasterdly Fisk is. His last name said thirty times a minute. Check.
Karen wants to do a story. Ellison says it's bad for business. Check.
They take Fisk down anyway. Peace is restored and Foggy/Karen/Matt have a cheesy fwiendship scene by the end. CHECK.
Matt acts like a dick to his friends. They love him anyways cause he's complicated. Check.
Matt questions if he should give up his friends or if Stick was wrong. CHECK FOR ALL THREE SEASONS.

Are we really going to say this lazy writing is the literary coming of christ simply because it has the Daredevil name? It's been three seasons it hasn't dawned on horn head Stick was a godamn loon. It's been the same arc every season. They're so obviously lost on how to develop Daredevil's character they did a Born Again-ish arc to clearly say "ah screw it, just do season one again." I don't want to see Matt be an amateur again. Just give me a new story.

The Bullseye story was okay But I feel like I could map out every beat in his arc the moment I saw him. And I didn't buy for a second that the F.B.I. hired him. That's just ridiculous. Nadeem was...mildly interesting, but it's just another procedural/cop plot that's become a Netflix MCU cliche.

They were doing a Born Again ish story-line. I guess that's the closest thing to something fresh this whole season but, nothing really came of it. Didn't the comics invent a lot of interesting, fascinating ways for Kingpin to ruin Daredevil's life on a personal level. I wanted to see where his knowing Matt's identity would go. They didn't do a damn thing with it. Matt just makees a deal and it gets swept under the rug.