Marvel Studios has had a bit of an up-and-down success story when it comes to TV since WandaVision kicked off a renewed focus on streaming series back in 2021. Well, it might be more diplomatic to frame them loosely as TV for the most part—the studio’s whole approach to miniseries that were more like sliced up movies left us with, for the most part, a kind of mixed bag. Some great ( Loki , the aforementioned WandaVision , more recent fare like Agatha All Along and X-Men ’97 ), some middling ( Falcon and the Winter Soldier , Moon Knight , Hawkeye ), and some perhaps better consigned to the trash heaps of history and never uttered about again (looking at you and your ghastly AI generated opening titles, Secret Invasion ).
But after a bit of an existential crisis a couple of years ago, it decided to not only completely retool the entirety of Daredevil: Born Again , a show (arguably one of Marvel’s biggest and most anticipated) it had already been filming and developing for months, but also fundamentally pivot its entire approach to making TV. And now, in a shocking move that will no doubt shake the very foundations of the industry as we know it, the House of Ideas and one-time seemingly unstoppable Hollywood tastemaker has learned a bold lesson: audiences like it when a TV show has multiple seasons that come out on a yearly basis . In the run up to the long-anticipated release of Daredevil: Born Again next week, Marvel’s head of TV Brad Winderbaum has been running the .
