Yahoo Lifestyle Daredevil: Born Again Draws 7.5 Million Views in First 5 Days, ‘B+’ Grade From TVLine Readers
The devil is in the details. And now we have a few details regarding Daredevil: Born Again‘s performance on Disney+ since its March 4 release.
The streamer announced on Monday that the Marvel Television series’ premiere episode drove 7.5 million views globally, with each view defined as “total stream time divided by runtime” — in this case, one hour for the first episode.
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That’s good enough to rank as “the biggest premiere of the year on Disney+,” the streamer touts, though all that tells me is that it outperformed, what, the launches of Goosebumps Season 2 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man…?
Meanwhile, TVLine readers gave the revival-of-sorts’ debut an average grade of “B+.”
Daredevil: Born Again streams Episode 3 this Tuesday at 9/8c.
BORN AGAIN PREMIERE SPOILERS AHEAD!
Perhaps polarizing for fans of the original Marvel’s Daredevil series that ran for three seasons on Netflix was Born Again‘s killing of a main character, and in the first eight minutes. Though Dario Scardapane, the showrunner who came on board after the infamous midseason creative overhaul, says that Foggy Nelson’s fate was sealed before his tenure.
“It was in the material that I inherited [from Chris Ord and Matt Corman], but unfortunately it was off-screen,” Scardapane told TVLine. “And I felt really strongly that if we were to do something that earth-shattering and something that was going to cause such a ripple effect in Matt’s life, we had to see it and we had to feel it.”
Charlie Cox told me that reuniting on-screen with both Deborah Ann Woll (who plays Karen Page) and Elden Henson, only for the latter to get killed off so quickly, was “a real tough pill to swallow,” tells TVLine.
“When that was talked about in the beginning, I couldn’t quite get my head around that,” the English actor shared. But in reviving the series for Disney+, “I understand … that we need to make a big splash. We want to rock the boat early on and draw people in in a new way. [Killing Foggy] is one way to do it, but it’s a big choice.”
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