7. Marvel’s The Defenders
Set up to be Netflix’s The Avengers, The Defenders is the culmination of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist coming together as a team. Needless to say, the hype surrounding The Defenders was sky high, even when Iron Fist failed to hit the mark. For the most part, The Defenders achieves what it set out to do, taking these four different street level heroes and combine them to take on a threat bigger than they could even hope to handle alone.
The strength of The Defenders is of course seeing characters that we have grown attached to finally interact with one another, and seeing the conversations that ensue is always a treat. It would be hard to argue that the Chinese restaurant scene is not a series highlight, with Matt and Luke ragging on Danny for his “glowing fist” or seeing Jessica be so uncomfortably out of her element with three other weirdos.While the show may not have done as well as Netflix may have liked, The Defenders successfully defends its reason for existence, and it’s hard to deny that it’s a fun watch.
