There is no doubt about it: Daredevil: Born Again has quickly become one of the most successful shows of 2025. It's no surprise either, for the Marvel Studios series has been anticipated for years, as fans of the original Netflix series have waited for Disney Plus to revive it. This was the year that those wishes came true.
Audiences were thrilled when Matt Murdock, Karen Page, Foggy Nelson, Wilson Fisk, Vanessa Fisk, and The Punisher all returned to screens for the revival and it gripped us all throughout its nine episode first season. Nobody was more thrilled than star Charlie Cox, who had been waiting for another chance to put on the mask since the cancellation of the original series in 2018.
However, Cox wasn't particularly thrilled about one episode in the new series, and it might come as a surprise.
Charlie Cox wasn't a fan of Daredevil's bank robbery episode
Charlie Cox has shared his thoughts on one episode of Daredevil: Born Again that he wasn't a big fan of. That episode is "With Interest", the fifth one in the show's first season, which sees Matt Murdock thwart a bank robbery by inserting himself in the situation and picking off the robbers. It was very much a standalone adventure, with just Cox himself being the only regular cast member from the show to appear, and it divided audiences - with some loving it and others struggling with it.
Cox was in the latter camp, it seems, as he revealed to The Playlist that it was the one episode he "didn't like", saying:
"... there was one episode we didn’t change at all. It’s the episode in the bank, and that was part of the original [shoot]. We shot that before the strike. That was part of the original, and just for my money, I wasn’t into it. I didn’t like it. It was my least favorite of the episodes, and I kind of pushed back against it as much as I felt was possible."
It's interesting to hear things from Cox's perspective as it does explain a lot about "With Interest". It's genuinely an odd case because Daredevil - neither the original or the revival series - wasn't known for standalone (or "filler") episodes, so this one stuck out in the gritty nine-episode story-driven season. It also had a somewhat lighter tone than the rest and featured the most significant reference to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe through the arrival of Yusuf Khan (Mohan Kapur), the father of Ms. Marvel.
Its standalone format and Cox's noted concerns might explain why Marvel randomly decided to release it alongside another episode midway through the show's run. Born Again had premiered with a two-episode debut, which was necessary as those episodes were parts of the extensive edits made by Marvel to take the show in the direction they wanted it to go after the creative overhaul. Given that "With Interest" was the last of the original episodes shot prior to the overhaul and that the new storylines would officially take form in the sixth episode, it makes sense that those two were released together.
Fans have pointed out some of the stronger storytelling elements from those original episodes, but the second half of the season is widely regarded as the best as it truly found its footing from episode 6 onwards. And yet, there is still something of a charm about episode 5 and its standalone quality that makes it an easy one to revisit.
It's interesting to hear that Cox wasn't a fan of it. The good news is that the second season of Born Again is expected to be a banger, with the star also revealing that it features "some of the best writing" they have ever had on the show.
Daredevil: Born Again is now streaming on Disney Plus.