Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again Just Did the Unthinkable—It wasn’t great.
Well, here we are. Marvel’s once-mighty, street-level savior has officially flatlined. Daredevil: Born Again didn’t just underperform—it ghosted the Nielsen streaming charts completely for the week of April 14–20, 2025. That’s right. Not a single episode—including the damn finale—could crack the top 10. This marks a first for any Marvel Studios Disney+ series. Even the "disappointments" (cough She-Hulk, Secret Invasion) at least showed up to the party. Born Again didn't even knock on the door.
For some perspective: to chart that week, an episode needed about 385 million minutes watched. Paramount+’s Mobland made it. Daredevil didn’t. That’s… yikes.
Here’s the breakdown, and it's brutal:
Episodes 1 & 2: needed ~465M minutes
Episode 3: ~464M
Episode 4: ~373M
Episodes 5 & 6: ~344M
Episode 7: ~470M
Episode 8: ~463M
Episode 9: ~385M
Marvel missed every mark. No bump, no last-minute surge, no binging savior. Just dead air.
And the silence from Disney’s own Samba TV? Deafening. You know it’s bad when even the corporate-friendly metrics are hiding under the bed.
Now, brace yourself—because apparently, Season 2 is still happening. Word is Krysten Ritter is coming back, the writing is allegedly “improved,” and Charlie Cox has called it some of the best material he’s read. That’s cool and all… but let’s not pretend Disney’s gonna throw movie-level cash at it again. The first season was a frankensteined mess—ripped apart, stitched back together, paused mid-production during the strike, and then slapped on Disney+ like a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.
But let’s talk about the real problem: Marvel has lost the plot. Literally. What used to be a powerhouse of tight, character-driven stories is now just a lukewarm content buffet trying to be everything to everyone.
Identity politics, lifestyle branding, tone-deaf cameos, and the pacing of a DMV line. It’s no wonder fans are tuning out. Born Again didn’t just flop—it screamed that the MCU’s street cred is officially in the gutter.
And just when you thought it couldn’t get more awkward… Ironheart is next. Yes, Marvel’s rolling out Riri Williams in a show that already feels like a sacrificial lamb. Their first and only trailer? Ratio’d to hell and back. With just 7.8 Million views it has 406K dislikes to only 199K likes… OUCH!
Worse? It dropped the same damn day as James Gunn’s Superman trailer—because Marvel apparently loves losing.
To make things more dire, Marvel’s dropping the first three episodes of Ironheart at once. That’s the streaming equivalent of saying, “Please just binge this quickly and move on.”
Let’s be honest here. Ironheart didn’t exactly set the comic world on fire either. Riri first appeared in Invincible Iron Man #14 back in 2016, then headlined her own Invincible Ironheart series in 2019—and fan reception was… not great. The live-action version showed up in Wakanda Forever, which helped a bit, but that cameo can only carry so much weight when the audience isn’t sold on the character to begin with.
So yeah, Marvel’s in trouble. Daredevil vanished. Ironheart looks like a pre-burnt match. And fans? They’re getting tired of the homework, the lectures, and the lack of heart.
This isn’t just a content drought—it’s a full-blown identity crisis.
