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(*) Streaming seasons in general tend to suffer from sagging middle sections, as part of the attempt to treat them less as individual episodes than as 13-hour single stories, but that feeling sets in earlier than usual here.
The staged combat remains excellent, of course, as Daredevil and Cinemax's Banshee keep operating on an action level above anything else on TV. In particular, there's a fantastic sequence near the end of the third episode where production obviously decided they had to top last year's hallway fight, and did so. For a few minutes, the new season's more-is-more ethos actually pays off. Mostly, though, the new batch feels lesser than the more streamlined show we got in season 1.
Alan Sepinwall may be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com
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