Daredevil: Born Againgained an early boost from its first audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes, which opened with a strong 92% approval rate and, at the time of writing, has risen to 95%. However, critics have not been quite as impressed with the new iteration of The Man Without Fear as they were with Netflix’s original three-season series. Naturally, comparisons were always going to be made, and it looks like for some critics, Marvel fatigue is just something they can’t bring themselves to get over.

When Daredevil burst onto screens on Netflix in 2015, it brought a brutal adaptation of Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk’s battle for supremacy in New York City to life with a near-perfect 99% score from critics. Season 2 took a little dip at 81%, before rounding off with a 97% score for Season 3. Daredevil: Born Again has opened its account with 83%, just above the current franchise low. While this could...