Binged the entire thing, it was good.
However there were several scenes with only sign language that didn't have subtitles attached to them, I don't know if that was intentional or an issue with Disney+ Canada. Not every scene with only sign language, but it was quite a few.
I think that was a glitch, all the scenes with sign-language were subtitled for me. Even a few where you couldn't see that the person was signing, but I guess they stuck with the format to make it clear that Maya knew what they were saying.
I thought it was really good. I've heard a little aspersions about this being Disney+'s first binge-release Marvel show, that it shows a lack of confidence in it or something, but I feel like the short total run-time, restrained scope, and strong serialization combined with the first episode being far and away the weakest of the lot and not a clear preview of the overall show meant that releasing it all at once was the best move to get a positive reception, and I
hate the binge-model. I genuinely don't think a lot of people would've come back after sitting with the first episode on its own for a week, maybe not even a day. I'm a little worried there'll be a drop-off regardless, though hopefully strong word-of-mouth will encourage people to stick with it.
Though I do have to acknowledge that I still hate MCU Fisk as a character. Not, like, in the fun, love-to-hate-him way, I just think his whole idiom of killing everyone around him at the drop of a hat and with little explanation or warning while offering no other skills as a criminal or leader makes it absurd that he could be any kind of "kingpin," and it just makes me angry that I have to take him seriously, enough so that I tuned out of the Netflix shows after Daredevil season 1. Who works for a guy like that? Who works with a guy like that? Who grudgingly accepts a guy like that in a world that runs on violence and retribution? I can't buy that he been shunned or shot in essentially every moment of his life. The way he operates, everyone in New York should be hunting him down the way Maya did. Not every criminal, every
person has probably had some affection for at least one person Fisk bashed to death with his bare hands, probably two or three, the way he goes through ASL interpreters and impatient ice-cream vendors.
Maybe the turn towards politics will help with that, being the figurehead of a movement instead of just a walking cloud of anthrax would make it at least a little plausible people would feel a need to attach themselves to him despite it being literally suicidal. Likewise, him (appearing to be) a small-timer in Hawkeye made a lot more sense than going back to him being a multi-millionaire with a finger in every pie in Echo.
