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The Marvel Netflix Universe is expanding once again to include a Daredevil spinoff for Jon Bernthal's version of Frank Castle. But how long after Daredevil Season 2 does The Punisher take place? Chronologically, the streaming service's Marvel shows h…

Frank Castle may have been introduced in Daredevil Season 2 as a client for a distracted Matt Murdock, but Marvel comics readers and film audiences know the character as a stand-alone entity. But do you need to watch Daredevil before The Punisher? It…

If there's one thing that the onslaught of superhero programming has taught us, it's that there's something for everyone. That's the beauty of choice. According to a recent Netflix press release, one in eight Marvel Television viewers was new to, or …

SPOILERS FOR ALL OF THE DEFENDERS. The first season of The Defenders could've been cruel and ended on a cheap cliffhanger. Instead of ending the series with Matt Murdock trapped under a pile of rubble and presumed dead, the final moments of The Defen…

SPOILER WARNING FOR THE DEFENDERS SEASON 1. For several tense minutes of its season finale, it looked like The Defenders might actually kill off one of its main characters. Considering that each hero also has their own television series, it was unlik…

Nothing against the four Defenders and the various friends and accomplices who put up with them, but I spent much of my marathon of the Netflix series looking out for a cameo by one Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal). The Punisher, who made his debut in thi…

Major spoilers for The Defenders ahead! In the culmination of Marvel's four Netflix series, the organization known as the Hand needed to come to New York City in order to use Danny Rand's Iron Fist and go home. However, a twist of fate and love stops…

The four street-level heroes who make up this super team appeared first in their own solo pieces before meeting up to kick ass in The Defenders, coming to Netflix Aug. 18. An essential part of merging the worlds of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage…

Finally, after four Marvel comics heroes rose up on Netflix in new adaptations, they are finally colliding in a highly-anticipated team-up series. For those who have stuck with Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist there are plenty of hi…

In the four Marvel shows leading up to The Defenders, street level heroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist all fought different villains in different New York City neighborhoods. Not only are the heroes uniting in the new series, bu…

Not that Matt Murdock is every really in a great mood, but at the end of Season 2 of Daredevil, he was really in the dumps. After reconnecting with the Bonnie to his Clyde, Elektra Natchios, he lost her. But Matt's loss was the Hand's gain. Elektra w…

For the most part, Marvel's television series have been compliant to comic book canon, but in The Defenders, there could be a few changes to these established characters and how they interact with one another. While the Aug. 18 premiere of The Defend…

When The Defenders debuts Aug. 18, fans will finally see the epic Marvel team-up Netflix has been building toward for years. The show unites Hell's Kitchen anti-heroes Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, and the recently inducted Iron Fist around a …

After the post-credits scene of 2008's Iron Man teased the formation of the Avengers, moviegoers had to wait four years for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to lay the foundation for that climactic superhero team-up. Netflix subscribers have been waitin…

The Marvel series Netflix has been building toward since Daredevil premiered in 2015 is finally here. The Defenders premieres on Aug. 18, and all of Netflix's reluctant heroes are back. Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and the Iron Fist are finall…

Since Daredevil declared himself New York’s vigilante hero, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) has had his work cut out for him. As Netflix introduces the highly anticipated crossover series The Defenders on Aug. 18, Matt will find himself wrestling with the…

Netflix's new Marvel series is basically the crossover lover's dream. The Defenders premieres Aug. 18 and is stuffed to the gills with characters from Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, from Misty Knight to Foggy Nelson to Jeri Hogar…

Let's drop all pretenses — Netflix's Marvel universe is really the story of Claire Temple, a nurse destined to cross paths with super-powered New Yorkers and ultimately become the greatest hero of them all. When each new series drops, I go into "Clai…

With the debut of Iron Fist and its fourth hero, Marvel fans know the drill with Netflix shows at this point. You know they're going to talk about "the Incident" and tease their dated comic book costume with some kind of ironic quip. The Iron Fist Ma…