I liked pretty much all the bad guys, but admittedly Kingpin was the worst one of the bunch. Too "Gomer Pyle" for my taste, with the odd speech pattern etc. They never really nailed the look either.
Generally I liked most of the series. Casting was succesful, the pacing was good, it had a good claustrophobic atmosphere with everything happening in closed, dark spaces. The writing of characters was top notch which really made the series for me. Every small character had been given proper attention to make them feel alive and have their own motivations which made sense.
All the torture really bothered me to start the series though. It was just so... Stock. Like it was the first thing the writers went to every time they needed something "dark". For the first half of the series there were 2-3 torture scenes in EVERY episode, which was more than a bit much for my tastes. It also starts to bug my suspension of disbelief pretty quick, as that kind of violent torture actually doesn't actually work that well in real life. It doesn't bother me if it "happens" to work a few times, but when they do it the 20th time in a row...
The fight scenes were okay, but they kind of botched the escalation, so they were all kind of the same outside of the scene where Daredevil saves the kid from the kidnappers. Apparently pretty much everybody in Hell's Kitchen knows kung-fu from the cops to the tailors. And they're all almost as good as Daredevil.
Oh, and Daredevils suit in the end was TERRIBLE. Really ugly and stupid looking, easily the worst superhero outfit of the current era of movies.
Still, solid series overall, 8/10 or something. Apparently next season the adversary will be Hand, which is interesting as a completely different type of enemy. Will be interesting to see whether they can handle the mystical stuff, which is always hard to do with style.
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