I think the non-Daredevil Marvel Netflix shows suffer because none of the characters are actually heroic. In some ways, the MCU connection weakens them because if any of these characters met their potential, the audience would wonder why they aren't in the Avengers. Luke Cage especially since his powers put him in the…

"These are all female characters with real, complex, thought-out motivations interacting with one another while the men at the Grounder camp stand around them as merely scene decoration. I can’t overstate how wonderful that is to see. I want to put that whole sentence in caps."