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I just finished Iron Fist on Netflix, and while it wasn't awful it is hard to argue that it isn't a failure. First, I guess the writers come from the “tell, never show” school of writing television, because all exposition is given in dialogue. I could hardly believe that it ended before we ever see the oft-mentioned K'un-Lun or even the monastery where Danny lived aside from a few fleeting flashes of memory. I understand that early on they wanted to toy with the possibility of him being crazy, but in the end it just felt low budget.

But what is really unforgiveable is the lackluster martial arts on display. No one really moves convincingly, like the actors they hired just couldn’t get it down, and the showrunners decided to just keep going. Nameless minions could get away with that, but Finn Jones needed to have it down. The fighting here should be more impressive than it was in Daredevil, but instead it is far inferior.