But for whatever reason, the dispiriting obligation to tidy up and rearrange seems to weigh on the writers, directors, and actors alike, and the process takes forever. Like the second seasons of Jessica Jones, Daredevil, and Luke Cage, season two of Iron Fist spends a lot of its time finding ways to un-ring narrative bells that it rang in season one, which is never an easy task. Meanwhile, there’s more internal drama at Rand Enterprises, with Joy Meachum (Jessica Stroup) pushing to get bought out of her contract so that she can pursue a new scheme involving patents, and Ward Meachum (Tom Pelphrey) entering Narcotics Anonymous. The new season picks up in Iron Fist’s Orientalist fantasy of New York’s Chinatown, which is experiencing what Danny’s partner and girlfriend Colleen Wing (Jessica Henwick) describes as “a power vacuum” that has left Danny “without any clearly defined role.” ( Iron Fist characters are forever describing their world in tediously expository terms you’d expect to see on an “About This Show” page.) Danny and Colleen try to intercede between warring gangs and persuade them to negotiate a truce, but of course it doesn’t work out, for the same reason that attempts to avert high-noon showdowns in a Western are doomed to fail: Peace and reasonableness are not what we came to see. K’un-Lun, the mythical city where Danny and his nemesis/opponent Davos (Sacha Dhawan) trained and fought, lies in ruins Danny blames himself, and it’s not just self-flagellation. But our initial glimpses suggest he’s far from being up to the task. Martial Arts Master Richie Rich - has accepted the mantle of New York’s protector. Following the supposed death of Matt Murdock at the end of The Defenders mini-series, hero Danny Rand (Finn Jones) - a.k.a.
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Incoming Iron Fist showrunner Raven Metzner inherited a series that was already poised for change and potential improvement, but the result is slightly more bearable tedium.
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Even if you grade on a superhero-movie curve, you would still have to be a die-hard stan to defend it as anything other than the least interesting title in the Netflix/Marvel team-up collection, an interlinked series of dramas of which even the superior entries - Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Daredevil - have their own problems, chiefly Netflix bloat. This second season develops something resembling momentum around episode five - this is what passes for improvement in a show presented by two major entertainment companies, apparently - but up until then, we have to endure poorly written conversations between mostly flat characters that go on two or three times longer than they need to in order to communicate essential character and plot information, and performances that could be described as “heroic” only in the sense that everyone onscreen is a trained professional trapped in the thespian version of an Old Testament conundrum: How to make bricks without straw? Iron Fist season two is an improvement on Iron Fist season one in the way that stubbing your toe is an improvement over jamming your finger in a car door. Peter must use all the powers at his disposal to try to stop this diabolical madman in his octagonal tracks.Photo: Linda Kallerus/Netflix/Linda Kallerus/Netflix
Peter's life is about to become even more complicated as he encounters a formidable new foe - Dr. Even Peter's beloved Aunt May (Rosemary Harris), who has fallen on hard times after the death of Uncle Ben, begins to have doubts about her nephew. His friendship with Harry Osborn (James Franco) is complicated by the young Osborn's bitterness over his father's death and his growing vendetta against Spider-Man. (Kirsten Dunst) becomes even stronger as he fights the impulse to reveal his secret life and declare his love. Tormented by his secrets, Peter finds that his relationships with all those he holds dear are in danger of unraveling. Spider-Man 2 explores the Peter's character as he faces new challenges and struggles with 'the gift and the curse,' desperately trying to balance his dual identities as the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man and his life as a college student.