I mean, I hope so too, if only because I’d rather it be a good show than a bad show. I don’t generally hope for shows to be bad. I hope for bad shows to fail, sure. That’s different.

I’m a hearing person, so I don’t say this from any personal experience, but I liked that Maya couldn’t pick up everything from lip reading. It’s so often portrayed in media as some kind of deaf superpower, whereas the reality (I’ve heard) is that it’s only partially effective.

They just needed a voice coming from the exploded van yelling, “What the hell, bro?” to show that no one had died.

He couldn’t be there himself, so he had it cut off, shipped to the set to be held by an offscreen extra, and the surgically reattached later. Guy’s dedicated to his craft.

This was such a welcome change of pace compared to the previous episodes. They made the unfortunate decision to make Maya, a villain?, into a cooler, more bad ass, more sympathetic character than Kate Bishop. I was expecting Kate to be this fun to watch fight, and I maintain that the title sequence is a LIE, at least…

We’re assuming D’Onofrio because the guy looked & sounded like D’Onofrio.

This show has been great all-around. Steinfeld was a home-run get - we all knew that when it was announced but she has absolutely delivered on the hype. And Renner is great as well. The action scenes are well-choreographed and shot (really liked the shot from inside the car as the Tracksuit Mafia was catching up to…

One thing I’m really enjoying about the show is the way it’s nailing an element of the Matt Fraction run that a lot of people seem to be missing as an element of the comic. A big part of that era, especially as it goes on, is Hawkeye struggling with depression and how that struggle affects his mentorship of Kate. Now,…

Step 1: Brutally kill anyone who calls you “Fat Man” and make sure everyone in the underworld and law enforcement knows it.
Step 2: Name all your laundering operations “Fat Man”
Step 3: PROFIT!

Maybe but the main reason people are assuming its Kingpin (minus the white suit) is that he sounded exactly like D’Onofrio.

I really liked the first driving scene where the camera is just spinning around for the majority of it in one take (or a faked version of that kind of thing).

Fuck it, I’m assuming that the coin-op rides were gone and the ball pit empty, but that the Tracksuit Mafia decided to turn their evil lair into a Chuck E. Cheese/Evil Lair combo.

Minus the Chuck E. Cheese food. Even career criminals have standards.

I hope the big man does turn out to be Kingpin, since they’re already connected in the comics — but you’d think they would’ve given him a white suit-sleeve instead of black, then...

I hope the big man does turn out to be Kingpin, since they’re already connected in the comics — but you’d think they would’ve given him a white suit-sleeve instead of black, then...

That eight-minute opener was lovely. I got a little choked up.

Fat man autoparts, not so subtle.

“uncle’s” chuckle when he squeezed young maya’s cheek sounded so much like vincent d’onofrio.

Love to know the day rate for a hand ... uh, gig?

I’m willing to believe Vincent D’Onofrio actually filmed that scene, he seems like the fun type of person who’d do that.

A game changing cameo in a Marvel production?  No....