Daredevil: Born Again - 'Sic Semper Systema' - S01E04

Gemma. It's okay. It's me.

Severance, 2x10 “Cold Harbor”

The thing about 911 is that the shipping drama and discourse surrounding it completely belies how insane this show truly is. A man is attacked by a shark on the freeway. Ghosts are probably real, and so are curses. The most recent season opens with a bee-nado that segues into a plotline about an autistic half-orphan child landing a broken plan. The most dramatic moment between the fandom's favorite ship is one of the characters getting shot by a sniper in broad daylight in the suburban streets of Los Angeles. Buck's introductory scene of the entire show is him stealing a firetruck to have sex with a Tinder hookup. The fire captain's backstory is an addiction that led to the death of 148 people. He's best friends with his wife's ex-husband and once proposed to said ex-husband's boyfriend on his behalf while that boyfriend was performing brain surgery on a man in the middle of a burning building. There's a guy who sneezes every time he lies and then lies so hard he almost dies. One of the main characters gets rebar impaled through his skull and is back to work the next month with no lasting side-effects. They basically never fight fires.

“They basically never fight fires”

They are too busy fighting the ALLEGATIONS give them a break

Gemma Scout, on the phone with her bank: Yes I’m just trying to reopen my account. ‘Marked as deceased’ yes I know, but I’m not dead. Yes I know my husband sent you my death certificate. My death was faked in a really elaborate scheme so—no, not by me. Look just turn on CNN. I’m all over the news. It’ll—'can I come in with my husband?' No, I can’t. He’s dead now. Well maybe not dead. But he’s probably never coming back alive. They can’t get his innie in the elevator. Yes they tried that. But he sticks his arms and legs out real wide like a cat so they can’t get him in the elevator.”

This scene felt like I was already roadkill on the side of the road and then someone came by and bashed a shovel over me instead of unsticking me from the pavement and now I'm more of a mess than I already was and I've just gotta live with that

I was yapping with my friend about Daredevil (she doesn’t watch) and she said:

“Maybe if carrying around the funeral program gave him a reason to not wear the suit, leaving it behind gives him a reason to come home.”

I’m going to be thinking about that for a while.

Foggy Nelson is haunting the narrative like a dead wife in an indie film