Daredevil: Born Again: The Hateful Darkness

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STV007: Karen Page stares down Wilson Fisk from behind prison bars and won’t budge. That’s where episode 7 of Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 begins, and it only gets heavier from there.

Patrick Mason, Jeff Haecker, and Rob Leonardi break down “The Hateful Darkness,” the episode where the resistance against Fisk finally takes shape, a key character dies, and Matt Murdock steps back out into the open.

The episode opens with David Bowie’s “It Ain’t Easy” playing over each character getting ready for what’s coming. The panel breaks down how the lyrics fit each situation: Fisk running on pure vengeance, Karen determined to fight through the courts, Poindexter trying to find a way off the moral hook he’s put himself on.

Fisk’s prison visit is the coldest scene in the episode. He’s dressed in black and white again, and the panel reads that as the show’s shorthand for a man who’s stripped everything down to control and revenge. Karen taunts him. He chokes her through the bars. She still doesn’t back down. Fisk decides to use her as bait.

Jessica Jones and Mr. Charles get their own thread here. The panel digs into the Luke Cage connection, their daughter, Charles’s leverage, and what it suggests about where Luke has been. It’s one of the season’s best running plots.

Matt steps back into public view as Karen’s co-counsel at trial. Kirsten McDuffie makes the argument plainly: a vigilante is the last resort of a broken society. The judges can’t refute it. The panel reads this as the show finally assembling its pieces for the finale.

Heather Glenn gets two scenes that shift her character considerably. Fisk giving back a stolen earring plays as a quiet induction into his inner circle. Her session with Karen is the episode’s tensest exchange — both women finding each other’s nerve and not letting go.

Then there’s Daniel Blake. His choice to let BB escape, walk into Buck Cashman’s hands, and accept the consequences is the moment that had the panel genuinely shaken. They debate his logic, what it means for Buck, and whether Buck will turn on Fisk before the season ends.

The episode ends with Matt praying to Saint Jude in an empty church. The panel has a critique: it’s foxhole Catholicism. He only shows up when desperate, only to the saints, nothing deeper. They want more from the faith the show keeps reaching for.

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