The MCU's Newest Season 2 Breaks A Negative 5-Year-Long Marvel Show Trend For Good
The Marvel Cinematic Universe's next TV series is confirmed to break a negative franchise trend, and it shows how things are changing for the better at Marvel Studios. The start of the Multiverse Saga led to Marvel being able to add MCU TV shows to the franchise's long list of projects. Between live-action series, animated shows, Special Presentations, and shorts, Marvel's foray into Disney+ has led to an elevated number of projects in a short amount of time. Sadly, not everything worked.
The MCU's TV shows were not produced in the traditional way, with no formal showrunners to oversee them. Adding to that, many of them were criticized due to wonky VFX, poor pacing, weak stories, and more. Marvel has shown that it is listening to the criticism, and a creative overhaul of the MCU's TV side has changed things. Now, shows are developed with multi-season projects in mind by dedicated showrunners for each project. One of Marvel Studios' upcoming projects will be the first to showcase that new way of thinking, and the live-action series breaks a negative MCU trend.
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Has Had Its Release Year Confirmed
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Charlie Cox leads Daredevil: Born Again's cast as Matt Murdock. The return of the popular Marvel hero comes in the form of his own project again, and different from other MCU TV shows, a second season of the series has already been confirmed. Initially, Marvel announced that the Daredevil show would have 18 episodes. However, that would not come to pass, as the studio later divided Daredevil: Born Again into two 9-episode seasons. Speaking with ScreenRant's Liam Crowley, Marvel Studios' Head of Streaming, Brad Winderbaum, revealed interesting details about Daredevil: Born Again's future.
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With Daredevil: Born Again season 2's filming set to start in New York on Friday, February 28th, Winderbaum revealed that the MCU TV show's second season will be released in 2026. Adding to it, the MCU executive claimed the plan is for the Daredevil series to become an annual release for "season 3 and season infinity after that." Winderbaum also touched on New York's potential in the MCU. Recently, he talked to Entertainment Weekly about the possibility of Netflix's other Defenders returning to the MCU, claiming Marvel is "very much exploring" that possibility, so more annual street-level shows could happen.
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Breaks An MCU TV Trend
Marvel Studios Now Has A Better TV Development Model
Brad Winderbaum's confirmation that Daredevil: Born Again season 2 releases in 2026 means that the series will break a negative MCU trend. Until now, only one live-action Marvel Studios series has returned for a second season. The show in question was Tom Hiddleston's Loki, but there was a two-year gap between seasons of the multiverse-heavy MCU series. All other live-action MCU shows on Disney+ were created as one-season limited series. As such, Daredevil: Born Again's confirmed annual releases make it the only live-action Marvel Studios series to release new seasons every year.
One of the biggest promises of the MCU's new TV show development model is that Marvel is now looking into multi-season series. Daredevil: Born Again is making good on that promise with a creative overhaul and now a firm release schedule that makes it one of the MCU's most interesting projects. Marvel is also looking at past shows to see if that new model could fit them, as Winderbaum recently confirmed that the studio is exploring making Hawkeye season 2. If Daredevil: Born Again season 1 is a hit, then the MCU's TV corner could see more multi-season shows soon.
Daredevil: Born Again
- Release Date
- March 4, 2025
- Network
- Disney+
- Showrunner
- Chris Ord
- Directors
- Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, David Boyd, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
- Writers
- Jesse Wigutow, Jill Blankenship, Thomas Wong, David Feige, Grainne Godfree
Cast
Matt Murdock / Daredevil
Wilson Fisk
- Franchise(s)
- Daredevil, Marvel Cinematic Universe
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