Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 premieres on Disney+ on March 24, and if the trailers are any indication, this is the season that fully delivers on the promise of Marvel’s Netflix integration. Nine days out, everything is confirmed — the cast, the premise, the weekly episode schedule — and one name above all others is driving the conversation: Jessica Jones is back.
Krysten Ritter returns as the super-strong private investigator for the first time since her own Netflix show ended in 2019. That’s a seven-year gap in MCU continuity, spanning the Blip, the Snap’s reversal, and Wilson Fisk’s transformation from crime boss to Mayor of New York City. Marvel Television head Brad Winderbaum confirmed on the Official Marvel Podcast that Season 2 won’t gloss over that gap — the show is explicitly catching fans up on what Jessica has been doing through all of it, with what he called “a lot of very cool surprises.”
She’s not here as a willing team player. Executive producer Sana Amanat told Empire that Jessica’s return is rooted in something personal, not a call to heroism. “She isn’t necessarily a team-up kind of person,” Amanat said, adding that Ritter brings “edginess and lightness — Daredevil can be very dark and dramatic, and she cuts through the BS in a really fun way.” That dynamic is exactly why this pairing works. Matt Murdock operates on faith and sacrifice. Jessica Jones operates on sarcasm and spite. Together, they’re fighting the same enemy with completely incompatible philosophies.
What Season 2 Is Actually About
The stakes this season are political. Wilson Fisk — now Mayor of New York — has deployed an Anti-Vigilante Task Force to hunt down Daredevil, effectively making the city’s most effective protector its most wanted criminal. Matt Murdock is operating from the shadows, cut off from the legal legitimacy he’s spent his career building. The official logline puts it plainly: resist, rebel, rebuild.
Fisk’s grip is tighter and more legitimate than anything he had as a crime boss, which is what makes him so dangerous here. The comics have explored versions of this dynamic — a villain gaining political power to launder his control — and the show is leaning directly into that tension rather than softening it.
Bullseye (Wilson Bethel) is loose. The Season 1 finale saw him escape, and the new March 12 teaser shows him fully embracing the chaos — targeting members of the AVTF itself, which suggests his agenda has become something beyond just serving Fisk. Season 3 of the original Netflix series teased the full Bullseye arc and never quite delivered it. This season appears to be the correction.
The Bigger Picture
The Defenders are slowly reassembling inside the MCU proper. The Punisher appeared in Season 1 of Born Again and is now heading into Spider-Man: Brand New Day this July. Jessica Jones joins here. And as we covered in our breakdown of what Luke Cage’s return could look like, Mike Colter has confirmed active conversations with Marvel about reprising the role — with Season 3 and a potential standalone series both on the table.
Season 3 is already confirmed for March 2027 — Marvel Television’s annual March window for Born Again is apparently locked in. Which means whatever happens in Season 2, there’s more story coming.
Eight episodes. Weekly. Starting Tuesday, March 24 at 9 PM ET on Disney+. Hell’s Kitchen is about to get complicated.