Daredevil: Born Again Season 2: Everything We Know So Far

The Daredevil franchise was born again this spring, when Disney+ rolled out the first nine episodes of a revival series starring Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio.

First rumored in May 2022 and officially announced two months later (with the title Daredevil: Born Again), the series was set in motion by tragedy — the murder of one of Matt Murdock's (Cox) loved ones, by Bullseye (Wilson Bethel) — and then leaped forward a year, with Matt now partnered at a new law firm, Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) relocated to San Francisco, and onetime crime boss Wilson Fisk (D'Onofrio) launching a successful bid for the New York City mayorship.

In addition to Cox, D'Onofrio, Woll and Bethel, Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 also brought back Elden Henson (as Foggy Nelson), Ayelet Zurer (Vanessa Fisk) and Jon Bernthal (Frank Castle/Punisher), while brand-new cast members included  Margarita Levieva (Revenge) as therapist Heather Glenn, Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark) as political strategist Daniel Blade, Nikki M James (Severance) as Matt's law firm partner Kirsten McDuffie, Genneya Walton (Never Have I Ever) as news vlogger BB Urich, Clark Johnson (Evil, Bosch) as law firm investigator Cherry, Arty Froushan (Carnival Row) as Fisk's lead stooge Buck Cashman, and Zabryna Guevara (New Amsterdam) as mayoral advisor Sheila Rivera.

The Season 1 finale on April 15 left Matt & Co. rallying for the fight of their lives — and for the Big Apple's future — to be chronicled in Season 2 of the Disney+ series (read full recap). Here is everything we know so far about that sophomore run....

As you will recall, Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 went through a major creative overhaul after Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige and other execs laid eyes on footage from the first few episodes and decided that the series as envisioned by original showrunners Matt Corman and Chris Ord (of Covert Affairs fame) — a legal procedural light on action and violence, and in which Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock didn't don his Daredevil duds until Episode 4 (!) — simply didn't work.

Dario Scardapane (The Punisher) replaced Corman and Ord as showrunner, while Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson were brought on as the directing team. The work of Scardapane, Moorhead and Benson was on display in the Season 1 premiere as well as the final two episodes (of nine), while Episodes 2-7 were largely the work of the original creative regime.

Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again kept Scardapane on as showrunner, and Benson and Moorhead as lead directors. Also directing Season 2 episodes are Angela Barnes (all six Ironheart episodes), Solvan Naim (The Equalizer) and Iain MacDonald (The Punisher).

To be honest? Not so super.

Disney+ reported on May 10 that in its first five days, Born Again's premiere episode drove 7.5 million views globally (with each view defined as "total stream time divided by runtime"). That was good enough to rank, at the time, as "the biggest premiere of the year on Disney+" — though all that told us is that it outperformed, what, the launches of Goosebumps Season 2 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man...?

Underscoring that underperformance, Daredevil: Born Again never landed on Nielsen's U.S. ranking of streaming originals, whereas Disney+'s Andor Season 2, for example, has spent a few weeks there and delivered three successive personal bests.

Critically speaking, Born Again scored an 8.1/10 on IMDb, 87% with Rotten Tomatoes critics, and a 69/100 with Metacritic reviewers.

TVLine readers gave Season 1 an average grade of "B+."

Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 ended with first-term NYC mayor Wilson Fisk announcing to the city his Safer Streets plan, which involves an 8 pm curfew, zero tolerance for vigilantes, and the declaration of martial law.

Matt Murdock expressed to Karen Page his resolve to get back their city — though to do so, he said, "We need an army." At episode's end, Matt as Daredevil presented himself to the first soldiers in said army: bar owner Josie, law firm P.I. Cherry, and some good cops included.

Speaking with TVLine on May 13, Cox said that Season 2 chronicles how Daredevil and his "army" (a fellow Defender now included!) will attempt to shut down Fisk's "Safer Streets" lockdown, though it will be no easy feat.

In Season 2, "We are living in a very oppressive, claustrophobic New York," he previewed. "You're frightened to be out, to be seen... you can't voice your concerns, your desire for change.... It's very French Resistance."

Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio will of course be back as Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Wilson Fisk/Kingpin.

You can also count on "a lot more" of Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, while Marvel TV/streaming chief Brad Winderbaum told Phase Hero that Foggy Nelson would be back (?!) in Season 2 as well.

You should also expect the returns of Clark Johnson as Cherry, Margarita Levieva as Dr. Heather Glenn, Nikki M. James as Kirsten McDuffie, Genneya Walton as BB Urich, Michael Gandolfini as Daniel Blake, Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk, Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher, Camila Rodriguez as Angela Del Toro, and Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter/Bullseye.

At the Disney Upfront in May, Charlie Cox announced that Krysten Ritter — who previously played Marvel hero Jessica Jones in two Netflix projects — would reprise that role during Daredevil: Born Again's second season.

"It is so great to be back, returning to Jessica after three seasons and The Defenders, and now joining the MCU," Ritter said on-stage at the event. "I am so excited to bring back this iconic character. And without giving too much away, there's much more in store for Jessica Jones. This is going to be an incredible season."

On the new-new front, Matthew Lillard (Good Girls) and Lili Taylor (Outer Range) are both part of Season 2.

"It's kind of a small role right now," a tight-lipped Lillard told ComicBook.com in mid-May, "but hopefully people like it, and they bring him back in some capacity."

Taylor meanwhile revealed to Rural Intelligence that she is playing no less than the governor of New York!

It was originally announced, way back in late 2022, that Disney+'s new Daredevil series had been given a Season 1 order of 18 episodes (!) — a beefy number that at the time frankly "fascinated" series lead Charlie Cox.

But come May 2024, Cox confirmed for TVLine that Season 1 would be just nine episodes.

Now, while conventional wisdom suggested that Season 2 would complete that original "18 episodes" count, showrunner Dario Scardapane told Collider in February of this year that Season 2 would span only eight episodes.

More than three years after first being announced, Daredevil: Born Again made its Disney+ debut on March 4, 2025.

Filming on the eight-episode Season 2 began around that same time, and was "halfway" complete when TVLine spoke with Charlie Cox in mid-May.

Timed to the Season 1 finale's release on April 16, showrunner Dario Scardapane shared on Instagram his appreciation for the "cast, crew and studio for their confidence and indulgence," before announcing: "Season 2 March 2026."

That lands Born Again Season 2 on TV a good seven months after the July 25 release of the MCU Phase 6 linchpin The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and not long before Tom Holland's Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits the Cineplex on July 31, 2026.

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