‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Tricky Release Schedule—When Do New Episodes Drop?
ByMonica Mercuri
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“Daredevil: Born Again” on Disney+.
The first two episodes of Marvel Television’s highly anticipated Daredevil revival premiered on Tuesday, March 4. Wondering when new episodes of Daredevil: Born Again will drop on Disney+? Here’s everything you need to know about the show’s unusual release schedule.
Daredevil: Born Again serves as a reboot of Netflix’s 2015 Daredevil series, with Charlie Cox returning to play Matt Murdock. The original show concluded with its third and final season in October 2018. However, at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, Marvel announced plans to revive the character with a new Disney+ series.
The next installment takes place six years after the events of Daredevil’s third season on Netflix. Since then, fans have seen Murdock make guest appearances across the MCU, including Spider-Man: No Way Home and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law on Disney+. In Born Again, Murdock will again face off against his longtime archnemesis, Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio).
“Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York,” the official synopsis reads. “When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.”
Keep reading for details on the Daredevil: Born Again release schedule, episode count, how to watch, and more.
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“Daredevil: Born Again” on Disney+.
New episodes of Daredevil: Born Again drop every Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT on Disney+.
The third episode, “The Hollow of His Hand,” will premiere on March 11.
“Daredevil: Born Again” is streaming on Disney+/
The first season of Daredevil: Born Again will consist of nine episodes. Initially, in 2022, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced an 18-episode season on Disney+. However, the studio later decided to split it, making the first nine episodes Daredevil: Born Again Season 1, while the rest will form the basis of Season 2, Entertainment Weekly reported.
Showrunner Dario Scardapane recently told Collider that filming for Season 2 will begin in the first week of March and will have eight episodes (rather than nine). The second season is slated to premiere in early-to-mid 2026.
“When I came in and put together the overview of what the first season was going to be, the second season was implied. They are the absolute flip side to each other, which you’ll see,” Scardapane explained to the site. “Without giving too much away, at the very end of the last episode of this season, you essentially see a lot of cards being put out on a table, and season 2 is those cards going into play vigorously and perhaps viciously.”
“Daredevil: Born Again” is streaming on Disney+/
The release schedule for Daredevil: Born Again is a bit more complex than a typical Marvel series. It starts with a two-episode premiere on March 4, followed by weekly releases for the next two weeks. Then, on March 25, fans will get another two-episode drop with Episodes 5 and 6 before returning to a weekly schedule leading up to the Season 1 finale on April 15.
Check out the full release schedule below.
“Daredevil: Born Again” on Disney+.
To watch Daredevil: Born Again, you’ll need a Disney+ subscription. Memberships start at $9.99/month for the basic plan (with ads) and $15.99/month for Disney+ Premium (no ads).
You can also opt for the Disney Duo, which bundles Disney+ and Hulu for $10.99/month with ads or $19.99/month ad-free. The Disney Trio includes Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ for $16.99/month with ads or $26.99/month for ad-free Disney+ and Hulu, while ESPN+ remains ad-supported.
Unfortunately, Disney+ does not offer a free trial at this time.
From left: Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, Finn Jones and Mike Colter arrive for the Netflix premiere … [+]
You don’t need to watch Netflix’s Daredevil before jumping into Daredevil: Born Again, but if you have the time, it’s worth considering. The original three-season series introduced key characters like Wilson Fisk (Kingpin), Vanessa Marianna, Karen Page, Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, Frank Castle (The Punisher), and Benjamin Poindexter (Bullseye)—many of whom are set to return in Born Again.
Additionally, Netflix’s series Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist are part of the same Defenders Saga, with all four heroes coming together in the crossover miniseries The Defenders. This miniseries sees Murdock (Daredevil) team up with other street-level heroes for the first time to take on their shared enemy, The Hand. While it’s not essential viewing for Born Again, it will definitely help give context to Murdock’s journey within the larger Marvel universe.
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On Tuesday, Disney+ dropped the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again, a continuation of the three-season Netflix Marvel series centered on a blind lawyer with superhuman senses living in Hell’s Kitchen. The revival has been in development for a while—originally, the plan was to give it a lighter tone than the noirish original series—but a creative overhaul in 2023 led to a more serialized approach. That means we’ll see at least seven major characters from the show, some of whom have been up to a lot in the past six years.
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Here’s where we left the main returning characters from Daredevil—and what they’re up to so far in the new season.
Matt (Charlie Cox) spent much of the original run dealing with an identity crisis: Should he devote his most of his time to lawyering, or to being a masked vigilante? Was it sustainable to juggle both? For a while, he ditched his normie side altogether, roaming the streets full-time and neglecting the friends who kept him grounded. In the main timeline of Born Again, though, Matt has retired the Daredevil persona entirely and gone straight, trying to make New York City a better place through law rather than back-alley beatdowns. He’s the head of a new firm with his partner, former assistant district attorney Kirsten McDuffie (Nikki M. James), who actually sets him up with his new girlfriend Heather Glenn (Margarita Levieva), another big comics character. Life is okay for Matt these days, though it’s obvious he can’t suppress his other half for long—especially when he’s dealing with dirty cops who force him to bust out his ass-kicking skills.
But there’s one event in particular that caused Matt to set Daredevil aside (for the time being, at least). Which leads me to …
It’s the big shocker of the first 15 minutes in the premiere: Foggy (Elden Henson) is shot and killed by Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter (Wilson Bethel), aka the frequent Daredevil comics villain Bullseye. The reasoning matters less than the aftermath: Matt finally snaps and throws Dex off the roof of a building, intending to kill him and almost succeeding.
Once Foggy found out the truth about Matt’s secret identity in the original Daredevil series, their friendship got very rocky. But that show ended with Matt, Foggy, and Karen (Deborah Ann Woll) reuniting to work together under a new Nelson, Murdock & Page umbrella, so it’s a shame to see the trio get broken apart so early in Born Again. Still, the impressive execution of the death scene (when it comes to both the kinetic action and the emotional consequences) partially makes up for the loss.
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Karen was Daredevil’s original love interest in the comics, but in the show she became much more of her own character, independent of the titular hero. In fact, she only really dated Matt briefly in Season 2, mostly serving as Matt and Foggy’s other best friend—and then hopping over for a regular role on The Punisher. Over the course of Daredevil, she went from office manager to journalist to business partner, and at the beginning of Born Again she’s still working at Nelson, Murdock & Page. After Foggy’s death, though, she relocates to San Francisco and loses touch with Matt, so it remains unclear exactly how much she’ll feature in the next seven episodes.
Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), aka the crime lord Kingpin, is really the second lead of Born Again. He’s coming into the show with a different perspective from in the original series: He has been to prison multiple times now, returning to captivity at the end of Season 3 in order to keep his wife Vanessa (Ayelet Zurer) safe from prosecution. He also got shot in the eye by his adoptive niece Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) in Hawkeye, an event explored more during his failed mentorship of her in Echo—a series that ended with Maya using her powers to emotionally break Fisk and force him to re-experience the memories of the abusive father he killed.
In the premiere of the revival, Fisk announces his run for mayor of New York—and gets elected that same episode off his crime-busting yet anti-vigilante platform. He insists that he’s gone straight now, but he clearly has no real intention of cutting down entirely on his usual violence and blackmail. There’s a temporary truce between him and Matt contingent on maintaining their newly clean personas, but Fisk will stop Matt if he busts out the Daredevil suit again, and Matt will stop Fisk if he starts killing again. Either of them could snap at any moment.
Season 3 of Daredevil provided a disturbing origin story for Bullseye, introducing him as an FBI agent who begins working for Fisk and killing people while impersonating Daredevil. But when Dex found out that his employer killed Julie, the woman he was stalking, he attacked Fisk and Vanessa, leading to Fisk breaking his spine. During Dex’s experimental surgery at the end, the camera lingered on a bullseye symbol reflected in his eye, a sign of his transformation into the famous comics version of the character.
Early in Born Again, Dex is as ruthless and psychopathic as ever, killing Foggy and at least ten others in the fight at Josie’s Bar. After surviving Matt’s murder attempt, he’s sentenced to many life sentences in prison, though it seems likely he’ll be on the loose again before long.
Fisk’s art gallery curator wife got actively involved in his criminal empire shortly before their marriage late in Season 3, ordering the death of an FBI agent named Ray Nadeem (Jay Ali). She almost faced consequences for it, too, but Matt agreed not to reveal her involvement if Fisk went back to prison and didn’t harm Foggy or Karen. In Born Again, it becomes clear that Vanessa was crucial in making Fisk’s business bulletproof for his mayoral run, though there are tensions in the marriage from Fisk’s long absence while recovering from the events of Echo.
This other iconic antihero from the comics first showed up in Season 2 of Daredevil before getting his own spinoff show anchored by Jon Bernthal’s spot-on performance. Castle hasn’t shown up yet in Born Again, and it’s unclear how exactly he will reenter the picture, though his friendship with Karen will likely come into play. He was last seen in the finale of The Punisher, when he resumed his vigilantism. That sets up the potential for him to come into conflict with either Daredevil or Kingpin.
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Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Daredevil: Born Again
Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk is back in the MCU, but Kingpin’s got a subtle new look that’s actually a lot deeper than it may seem. The newly elected mayor of New York City is a major part of Daredevil: Born Again having previously returned for a smaller role in Hawkeye and as the chief antagonist in its spin-off Echo in 2024. And here, he’s a totally different prospect.
Daredevil: Born Again is an excellent meditation on the nature of vigilantism and man’s capacity for violence, and makes Fisk far more of a parallel to Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock than in previous seasons. Both men are defined by their violent pasts and their apparent desires to move past them, which fundamentally alters Born Again and brings Daredevil to the MCU timeline with definitive difference (as was always promised). Part of that is a new look for Kingpin, and there’s a very good reason for it.
First off, in Born Again, Fisk actually IS smaller. He’s less of the exaggerated figure he was in Netflix’s first three seasons of Daredevil, which had prompted D’Onofrio to put on a significant amoutn of weight. He revealed to Popverse that he knew he had to change his look to match the character:
I knew that I would have to put on weight to do it, I put on about 40 pounds or so for that first Netflix show. I never stopped exercising and doing my normal exercises and stuff. I bulked up and got….let’s face it…lovely and fat, which I thought was amazing. I loved it, because I could eat all the carbs and dairy I wanted. The three seasons took almost five years, and that was intense. I kept that weight on for all that time. In between I was doing Jurassic World and Magnificent Seven. I was saying to directors, ‘My guy is going to be a big dude.
They did start making these amazing suits that NASA makes and they contour to all your muscles, and they just extend your actual muscle form to bigger. It’s really nice and they’re really light.
It seems likely that Fisk would be wearing a similar suit for Born Again, but D’Onofrio looks notable trim enough that I suspect he’s not wearing much or any padding. And that technical aspect would only be part of why Fisk looks smaller in Daredevil: Born Again. In-universe, Fisk has lost weight, and changed his physique. As Matt Murdock notes to him when the pair face-off in the diner: “your step is lighter. You’ve lost weight… gained muscle.” Fisk takes that as an invitation to fight, which he rejects, but it’s an important line for a different reason: Born Again uses Matt to highlight Fisk’s change, because it matters.
Kingpin is defined by his physicality: he’s big, muscular – a trained, ferocious boxer with the ability to tear men apart on a whim. But that image doesn’t fit with the refined, mayoral candidate. It seems Fisk has consciously changed his look to reflect the new era of his life. The safer era. A safer Fisk, in effect.
Not only has D’Onofrio not gained the weight back that he consciously chose to add for Netflix’s seasons of the show, but he’s also framed differently in Born Again. In previous appearances, scenes were constructed to make him tower over other characters, often seating his enemies so he could loom over him, or subtly shooting him from lower angles.
Whether it’s a conscious thing throughout or not, Daredevil: Born Again makes Kingpin look less like a monstrous hulk. He’s normalized, and recontextualized visually to not seem so alien in his size. Yes, he’s still huge, but he’s no longer as remarkable for the same reason, and that’s also why his wardrobe early on in the show is notably different.
Notably, in the first episode, there is one scene where Fisk looks huge: he stands atop his building as Born Again episode 1 ends, with Matt Murdock looking up at him from the street. It’s a stark reminder of the power dynamic that still exists, despite how Fisk is presenting himself now. And it’s a hint that the current dynamic still includes Fisk seeking further power.
The prospect of a legitimate Fisk is arguably more terrifying than the image of an unhinged brawler. There are already signs that the mayor’s extremist views on crime (or at least crime that he has no control of), and vigilantism are seeping into the public consciousness. And when that reaches its extreme point, Kingpin will have something far more dangerous than fear: he’ll have enthusiastic support and validation. Perhaps enough, even, to mount a legitimate war.
As well as his notably smaller frame, Kingpin’s new look leaves his trademark white suit behind. Mayor Fisk favors darker suits, more elegant and, notably, a lot less showy. Fisk adopted the white look in Daredevil season 3 as a symbolic rebirth of his image after his reconnection with Vanessa. The stark contrast of the purity of his white look and the devil aesthetic of Daredevil was also a conscious thing, as Fisk sought to ruin Murdock’s reputation.
At the same time, the white suit was a contradiction in terms: a surface level look deeply at odds with his internal motivations. That way, it became a symbol of Fisk’s power: almost a mockery and perversion of what white usually represents. You might think that him continuing that symbolism of purity in Daredevil: Born Again would make sense, given his apparent moral make-over once more, but the ostentatious look is not one of a serious, political man.
In Born Again, Fisk has cast off his Kingpin costume, adopting a more conventional look to blend in with society, not to make any sort of statement about his intent. It’s a clever change, and the fact that he continues to own his iconic look but consciously rejects it as an option to wear in Daredevil: Born Again season 1 should give you further hint of its importance as a symbol.
Crucially, there’s also room for Fisk to return to his old life: his suit isn’t just a relic he’s kept for nostalgic reasons, it’s an alternative that remains at his disposal should he need it. He’s not Kingpin now, but we’re supposed to understand that he could well be again. Just as Born Again episode 1 ends with Matt Murdock framed in red, this is all a big hint of what’s to come.
Fisk may have remodeled himself as a legitimate politician and a weapon in New York’s favor, but we already have a big hint that he’s not quite as removed from his past as he might claim. Matt Murdock’s suspicion of him, and the threat that he will keep tabs on him are well-placed, because Fisk is still a violent monster.
In Daredevil: Born Again episode 2, as Fisk discusses the desk in his new office, the camera captures his hand in close-up, revealing fresh injuries on his knuckles. They clearly aren’t scars, suggesting Fisk is still actively using his fists, and it’s such a loaded shot that the suggestion is definitely that someone was on the end of those punches. The injuries are more consistent with punching something hard – like a skull – than him training on even a heavy bag in a gym.
It’s a subtle but powerful image: Fisk marvelling at the majesty and importance of his desk, in a well-tailored suit, while his knuckles give away the fact that he’s clearly still suppressing everything that made him Kingpin. He can remove his costume, but there are signs he’s still there in Daredevil: Born Again.
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