When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Although Netflix have revealed that they have canceled Daredevil , fans have not given up hope for season four. After the events of the season three finale, which saw Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) return to jail and Agent Benjamin Poindexter (Wilson Bethel) fully become Bullseye, viewers are eagerly awaiting news of Daredevil season four. But will Daredevil be back for season four on another channel? Will there be another season of Daredevil? Netflix have said they will not be producing a Daredevil season four, but their announcement implied the series may be back on a platform like Disney's upcoming Disney+. Showrunner Erik Oleson told Entertainment Weekly: “I can tell you that I’m very hopeful to go do a season four. “There has not yet been any kind of an official pick-up, but if there is, I’m very hopeful that I will be a part of it.” Although there has been no announcement from Disney that they will air Daredevil season four, the cast and crew of Daredevil have been sharing their thoughts on what a fourth season would look like. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END OF DAREDEVIL SEASON 3?<doc-sep>With Netflix having cancelled both Iron Fist and Luke Cage within a week of each other, fans have begun to question the future of their fellow Defenders. Jessica Jones and The Punisher have already been renewed for their third and second seasons, respectively, but Daredevil has not had another run commissioned. Following the third season’s debut on the streaming service, showrunner Erik Oleson spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the current status of the show. “I can tell you that I’m very hopeful to go do a season four,” he told the publication. “There has not yet been any kind of an official pick-up, but if there is, I’m very hopeful that I will be a part of it.” The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK Show all 50 1 /50 The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK Bojack Horseman A cartoon about a talking horse, starring the goofy older brother from Arrested Development… on paper little about BoJack Horseman screams “must watch”. Yet the series almost immediately transcended its format to deliver a moving and very funny rumination on depression and middle-age malaise. Will Arnett plays BoJack – one time star of Nineties hit sitcom Horsin’ Around – as a lost soul whose turbo-charged narcissism prevents him getting his life together. Almost as good are a support cast including Alison Brie (Glow, Mad Men), Aaron Paul, of Breaking Bad, and Amy Sedaris as a pampered Persian cat who is also BoJack’s agent. Season five touches the live rail of harassment in the movie industry, offering one of the most astute commentaries yet on the #MeToo movement with an episode based centred around an awards ceremony called “The Forgivies”. The sixth and final series was split in two, with part one debuting on 25 October and part two on 31 January 2020. Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK Stranger Things A valentine to the Spielberg school of Eighties blockbuster, with Winona Ryder as a small town mom whose son is abducted by a transdimensional monster. ET, Goonies, Close Encounters, Alien and everything Stephen King wrote between 1975 and 1990 are all tossed into the blender by Millennial writer-creators the Duffer brothers. It was clear Stranger Things was going to be a mega-smash when Barb – the “best friend” character eaten in the second episode – went viral the weekend it dropped. Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK Daredevil Netflix’s Marvel shows tend towards the overlong and turgid. An exception is the high-kicking Daredevil, with Charlie Cox’s blind lawyer/crimefighter banishing all memory of Ben Affleck's turn donning the red jumpsuit in 2003. With New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighbourhood as backdrop, Daredevil is caked in street-level grit and features a searing series one performance by Vincent D'Onofrio as the villainous Kingpin. The perfect antidote to the deafening bombast of the big screen Marvel movies. Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK The Staircase Did he do it? Does it matter considering the lengths the Durham, North Carolina police seemingly went in order to stitch him up? Sitting through this twisting, turning documenting about the trial of Michael Peterson – charged with the murder in 2003 of his wife – the viewer may find themselves alternately empathising with and recoiling from the accused. It’s a feat of bravura factual filmmaking from French documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, which comes to Netflix with a recently shot three-part coda catching up with the (very weird) Peterson clan a decade on. Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK Dark Stranger Things: the Euro-Gloom years. Netflix’s first German-language production is a pulp romp that thinks it’s a Wagner opera. In a remote town surrounded by a creepy forest locals fear the disappearance of a teenager may be linked to other missing persons cases from decades earlier. The timelines get twisted and it’s obvious that something wicked is emanating from a tunnel leading to a nearby nuclear power plant. Yet if the story sometimes trips itself up the Goonies-meets-Götterdämmerung ambiance keeps you hooked. Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK A Series of Unfortunate Events The wry and bleak Lemony Snickett children novels finally get the ghastly adaptation they deserve (let’s all pretend the dreadful 2004 Jim Carrey movie never happened). Neil Patrick Harris gobbles up the scenery as the vain and wicked Count Olaf, desperate to separate the Baudelaire orphans from their considerable inheritance. The look is Tim Burton by way of Wes Anderson, and the dark wit of the books is replicated perfectly (Snickett, aka Daniel Handler, is co-producer). Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK Maniac If you’re curious as to how Cary Fukunaga will handle the Bond franchise, his limited series, starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, drops some delicious hints. It’s a mind-bending sci-fi story set in an alternative United States where computers still look like Commodore 64s and in which you pay for goods by having a “travel buddy” sit down and read you adverts. Stone and Hill are star-crossed outcasts participating in a drugs trial that catapults them into a series of trippy genre excursions – including an occult adventure and a Lord of the Rings-style fantasy. It is here that Fukunaga demonstrates his versatility, handling potentially hokey material smartly and respectfully. 007 fans can sleep easy. Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK Better Call Saul The Breaking Bad prequel is starting to outgrow the show that spawned it. Where Breaking Bad delivered a master-class in scorched earth storytelling Saul is gentler and more humane. Years before the rise of Walter White, the future meth overlord’s sleazy lawyer, Saul Goodman, is still plain old Jimmy McGill, a striving every-dude trying to catch a break. But how far will he go to make his name and escape the shadow of his superstar attorney brother Chuck (Michael McKean)? Season five has just arrived and journeys even deeper into the Breaking Bad expanded universe. AMC Studios/Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK Black Mirror Don’t tell Channel 4 but Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series has arguably got even better since making the jump from British terrestrial TV to the realm of megabucks American streaming. Bigger budgets have given creators Brooker and Annabel Jones license to let their imaginations off the leash – yielding unsurpassable episodes such as virtual reality love story "San Junipero" and Star Trek parody "USS Callister", which has bagged a bunch of Emmys. Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK Mindhunter David Fincher produces this serial killer drama based on the writings of a real-life FBI psychological profiler. It’s the post-Watergate Seventies and two maverick G-Men (Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany) are going out on a limb by utilising the latest psychological research to get inside the heads of a motley assembly of real-life sociopathic murders – including the notorious “Co-Ed” butcher Ed Kemper, brought chillingly to live in an Emmy-nominated performance by Cameron Britton. Netflix The 50 best TV shows on Netflix UK The Crown A right royal blockbuster from dramatist Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost / Nixon). Tracing the reign of Elizabeth II from her days as a wide-eyed young woman propelled to the throne after the surprise early death of her father, The Crown humanises the royals even as it paints their private lives as a bodice-ripping soap. Matt Smith is charmingly roguish as Prince Philip and Vanessa Kirby has ascended the Hollywood ranks on the back of her turn as the flawed yet sympathetic Princess Margaret. Most impressive of all, arguably, is Claire Foy, who plays the Queen as a shy woman thrust unwillingly into the spotlight. Foy and the rest of the principal cast have now departed, with a crew of older actors – headed by Olivia Colman and Tobias Menzies – taking over as the middle-aged Windsors for season three. They’ll be around for season four too. And then the grand endeavour closes with Imelda Staunton as Elizabeth in her twilight years.<doc-sep>Daredevil season three, which dropped in its entirety on Friday, is arguably the best season of the Marvel-Netflix series so far. With the addition of a new, emotionally complex enemy, the return of an old favorite and Matt Murdock’s struggle with faith and identity, the season, overseen by first-time showrunner Erik Oleson, is a return to form for the series. But with the recent cancellations of Iron Fist and Luke Cage, what does the future hold for Daredevil? [Ed. note: This post contains major spoilers for Daredevil season three.] A bullseye of an ending The final scene in Daredevil’s third season depicts FBI agent Benjamin Poindexter on the operating table, undergoing surgery for his spine after being crushed by Wilson Fisk during a climactic three-way battle between him, Fisk and Daredevil. To those who are familiar with Daredevil comic book lore, it was a significant moment, teasing out Dr. Oyama, Cognium steel and the bullseye symbol. Dr. Oyama is known in the X-Men comic-book universe as Lord Dark Wind, the father of Lady Deathstrike and the creator of the adamantium infusion process that gave Wolverine his shiny claws. Cognium steel is Marvel’s way of using adamantium without infringing on its contract agreement with Fox, the company that currently owns the X-Men movie rights (at least until that Disney-Fox deal is sealed). So, according to this scene, Dex’s spine is being repaired with cognium steel, aka adamantium (wink wink), giving him the heightened powers Bullseye has in the comics. And with the classic Bullseye symbol zoomed in on in Dex’s eyes, this pretty much guarantees that Bullseye will be the main villain in Daredevil season four, fully-formed and ready to take on Daredevil once again. That is, if there is a season four — this month Netflix canceled both Iron Fist and Luke Cage (though the company alluded to both returning in some capacity). Before we get into what these cancellations could mean for the future of Daredevil, let’s talk about The Kingpin and our hero. A deal with the devil Throughout this season, Fisk has not only been obsessing about the well-being of his love, Vanessa, but about whether or not Matt Murdock is Daredevil. But thanks to Karen Page’s not-so-subtle facial expression during their confrontation in his hotel room, in which Fisk asks her point blank if Matt is Daredevil, his suspicion is confirmed. Fisk spent season three framing Daredevil in a string of murders and trying to murder Matt Murdock for learning too much about how we was able to weasel his way out of prison. By the end, the big bad pulled double-duty in trying to frame Daredevil, and make Matt’s life a living hell by sending Dex to murder Karen Page. While wrestling with his faith, healing from his wounds and trying to come to terms that Sister Maggie is his estranged mother, Matt goes back and forth on whether he should just murder Fisk, knowing that it’ll make everyone’s lives so much easier. But after Foggy and Karen convince Matt to give the justice system one more chance, and have FBI Special Agent Ray Nadeem atone for his sins and testify against Fisk, things go from bad to worse. Fisk gets to the jurors and threatens their families. Nadeem is then murdered by Dex. And that’s when Matt decides that murdering Fisk is the only option left, much to the dismay of Karen and Foggy. But right when Matt Murdock has the chance to do it, as Fisk prods him on, Matt stops himself, of course. Because he realizes Fisk wants Matt to murder him, because that means he would have crossed the line between hero and villain, making Daredevil just as bad as the Kingpin. Matt refuses, his faith in himself, and his strong Catholic upbringing, restored. After the two strike a deal — Fisk won’t reveal Matt’s Daredevil identity if Matt protects Fisk’s now-wife Vanessa while he’s in prison — and seal it with handshake, that’s it. Matt, Foggy and Karen are all friends again, with talk about reforming their law partnership, this time making Page a full partner. And they laugh, probably for the first time this season. It’s a nice, mostly-optimistic ending for Daredevil’s darkest season yet. The question of Daredevil season 4 Besides the Bullseye tease, Daredevil’s season three wraps up with a nice little bow. The show teases Bullseye’s technological enhancements, but leaves us with a bigger, burning question: Will there even be a Daredevil season four? Nobody but Netflix knows. But if Daredevil’s fate on Netflix is the same as Iron Fist and Luke Cage, what a way to go. Not only does it end with hope on the horizon for Matt, Karen and Foggy, but Matt now has estranged mother, Sister Maggie back in his life. And at the same time, if there is a season four, there’s the potential for the rise of a new villain, one of Daredevil’s greatest adversaries, in the form of Bullseye. As strong as season three of Daredevil was, here’s hoping Netflix grabs the devil by the horns and graces us with another installment.<doc-sep>
The cancellation of Marvel’s Iron Fist and Luke Cage on Netflix may or may not be the result of Thanos’ snap from the end of Avengers: Infinity War (spoilers: it’s not), but the abrupt hammer brought down on both shows reveals that no hero is safe. If the news has you worried about the fate of a Daredevil Season 4 release, the latest statement from current showrunner Erik Oleson won’t exactly put you at ease. In a post-release interview of Daredevil Season 3 with Entertainment Weekly, Olsen says he’s “hopeful” a fourth season happens and that he can be a part of it. Sadly, that is a far cry from direct confirmation that Season 4 will happen anytime soon, if at all. “I can tell you that I’m very hopeful to go do a Season 4,” Oleson said when asked about a Netflix renewal. “There has not yet been any kind of an official pick-up, but if there is, I’m very hopeful that I will be a part of it.” Earlier this month, Netflix made the decision to cancel Iron Fist just weeks after its second season premiered. A week later, Netflix canceled Luke Cage. When Deadline broke the news on Friday, it reported that it was “a combo of the age old Hollywood ‘creative differences,’” with sources claiming there was an “inability for the parties involved to reach a deal on how to move forward.” “We hear that some execs had issues with the more developed scripts, even though the scripts strongly incorporated suggestions from both Netflix and Marvel brass,” reported Deadline. Aside from creative differences, TV journalists, critics, and other industry professionals are speculating if the true culprit is Disney’s upcoming streaming service and what role it played into Netflix’s decision to cancel almost half its Marvel offerings. From a financial perspective, Netflix was paying lots of money for programming it didn’t own, and the costs were soaring enough to the point that cancellation seems logical. Marvel’s parent company is coming to an end to its agreement with Netflix to offer Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney programming on the popular streaming service. Current Disney titles available for U.S. Netflix users include Black Panther, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Beauty and the Beast. But just like half the MCU, that will go away when Disney launches its own platform next year. Marvel shows still on at Netflix include Jessica Jones, currently filming its third season, and The Punisher, which is in production of its second season.