Boy. This show is pretty ****ing bad. I'll start with what was good.

1. Tom Pelphrey as Ward Meachum - Best part of the show to me, hands down. Could have been a very annoying, thankless role and yet I found myself excited when he was in the scene. They even gave him my least favorite C plot cliche of substance abuse and I still was into it. That guy should work a lot more.

2. Rosario Dawson - Man, she tried. She injected as much legitimacy into this thing that she could. She's been a shot in the arm to all of these shows. Thank God for her.

3. ...... production design?

That's about all I got. To me, this show is easily the worst Marvel property out there. I didn't love Luke Cage like most people seemed to but at least it had a slightly original point of view. It's like this show wanted to redo Daredevil except make his superpower really vague and douchey while casting the worst ****ing actor on the planet. I seriously couldn't believe how bad he was. He basically had two moves. Petulant, childish, scowl and baselessly arrogant know it all. Oh, one more, ludicrously and earnestly idealistic dipshit. Yes, a lot of this is the writing, but he got the same writer everybody else got and he was almost unwatchable. I was actually fastforwarding through his emotional scenes by the end. I hope he shaves that pubic hair off his face and takes an acting class before The Defenders.

The rest of the cast was fine, although David Wenham overshot a little on Harold Meachum. Could have been fun, but he was just too moustache-twirling for me to take. OH WAIT! The guy that played Colleen's sensei (B- something?) was also terrible. I mean he didn't have much to do but managed to be total garbage.

The story was really weak, the dialogue might as well have been written by a computer program, and it did nothing at all to make me more excited for The Defenders. All of this could have been saved if I gave half a shit about Danny, but by the last episode I really could not have cared less if Harold put one between his eyes. In fact, I was rooting for it a little against all odds.

Long story short, I'm not terribly familiar with Iron Fist, but I'm a huge Marvel fan. That was enough to compel me through the show, but I will not watch season two if there is one. I thought Mike Colter as Luke was the weakest part of Luke Cage, but Danny Rand is next level bad. Can they just recast? I'm sure not. I feel bad for Iron Fist fans. If I was one of them I'd be pretty ****ing disappointed.

It is quite clear that Harold at the very least verbally abused if not physically abused Ward since he was a child. That is also why Ward also bullied young Danny. Hence Ward saying that his happiest day was the one that Harold died. That is why he is so eager to kill Harold after his second resurrection. Harold was already an abused before he died the first time.