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The hits just keep coming for the various Defenders series. Per Deadline Hollywood, Netflix announced this evening that it has canceled Daredevil, just weeks after the show concluded its critically acclaimed third season. This news shouldn't be too surprising, but this one is a particularly tough blow for fans.
Clearly Netflix is cleaning house, since this follows surprise cancellations in October of Iron Fist and Luke Cage. That just leaves Jessica Jones and The Punisher on Netflex's[sic] roster of Defenders. Both have new seasons in the pipeline that are currently slated to air on Netflix as planned, according to Deadline's sources. But they will, in all likelihood, be on the chopping block eventually as well.
Marvel/Disney may be planning to revive the Defender series on its upcoming streaming service.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by rleigh on Friday November 30 2018, @09:30PM
I put Iron Fist's failure down to the writers. The writing was terrible. It started with an interesting premise, but it quickly fizzled out. It's also bit tragic when a minor character (the kung fu girl, whatever her name was), is vastly more interesting than the protagonist! Not only was the writing for her much better, she was a better actress and better at martial arts! Sad. It's like the writers set this up to fail from the start.