A thought that keeps occurring to me while watching Daredevil: Born Again goes pretty much like this: “Damn, there are So many men in this show. Pretty much all of the main characters. The women, even the powerful ones, are foils that look pretty and talk fast. There’s no texture. Meanwhile, the men steamroll everything with their blinding light and pitch darkness. Where’s the nuance?”

Is this what all superhero media is? Men – in the writer’s room and at the illustration table – depicting other men doing unconscionable things that are, when rendered in a “super” way, undeniably cool? If so, it scares me.

Born Again Episode 6 brought these thoughts to a head. There is a lot of violence and many men acting with unparalleled agency alongside the explicit tokenization of the women in their lives. It makes sense, then, that this is the episode in which tensions start to boil over.