3. Marvel’s Daredevil (Netflix: 2015-2018)

Marvel’s Daredevil was contemplative, brutal, affecting, occasionally unfocused, and sometimes really damn silly. When it didn’t feel like it was a part of a wider universe, the series absolutely cooked; its Hell’s Kitchen felt like an infernal pocket dimension, with Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock a resident necessary evil. Daredevil’s captivating powers were forged in its war of attrition between Matt and Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), a mesmerizing kingpin of crime who ultimately became the MCU’s most legendary villain. (Loki, eat your heart out.) The show lost its way in season two, tossing out its exploration of violent philosophies for a thematically inert army of ninjas and a plot thread that led to the equally inert Marvel’s The Defenders. But at its best, Daredevil set a mood that held the rest of the Marvel-Netflix experiment in its tortured grasp. More than just great Marvel television, it’s great television. [Jarrod Jones]