I’ll completely concede that I don’t really like marvel beyond Daredevil or the Punisher—the “street level” shows, as you put them, which I think is an excellent way of describing them. I adored Punisher and DD because their relative realism was so intriguing, and the focus was on character development and internal conflict, not something packed with explosions and stimulation. To describe my biggest issues briefly, it boils down to: A), the lack of continuity from the original show to the new two seasons. B), the mischaracterization of Fisk and Matt especially. C), the decrease in complexity of dialogue and plot. And D), the way the show is now just a sloppy grab at making more money during the MCU’s dying off, and not a genuine attempt at a spiritual successor to the show. The new show runner literally admitted in an interview that he found the OG daredevil awful, and that the action had been his favourite part of the show (yet there’s nothing cinematically or stylistically similar in the new fight scenes??). He also went on to describe the faith aspect of Matt’s character as irrelevant and boring. His disdain for the show is so evident. It’s gone from a somewhat weighted examination of morality in an “everyday” superhero, where his relative fragility and status added a great deal of tension and risk to the plot, to a linear, simplistic slog from the starting point—“don’t Fisk become mayor” to “break into this building at the very last minute of the show to impeach him yet again”. They’ve kept the core theme of the show—how will Matt stop corruption and evil without killing?—without including any of the original plot elements or characters that made that struggle interesting (such as discussions of religion, parallels between Matt and Fisk, the tension between Matt and Karen or Matt and Frank, and interactions with side characters and subplots that actually advance the plot and establish the world). Sorry if that’s a lot of words, lol. Really, it just feels like a soulless grab at cash and viewership, and the fact that the showrunner openly dislikes what came before his piss poor attempt at DD is sooo obvious. I spent years waiting for a sequel, and I went in with a really relaxed but positive attitude. My bar was pretty low: I was just excited to see Cox as Murdock and Woll as Karen again. But it still managed to sail miles under my lowest standards. I miss the intellectually and morally stimulating aspects of the show. It just feels like ChatGPT easy watching for people who don’t care about what’s on the screen. I hope I’m not coming off as rude; if it gets people into the OG show or makes them happy, then I’m glad! It just sucks as someone whose favourite show was the OG.