The frustrating thing about Iron Fist is that while the main character mails in his performance meekly, especially in the fight scenes (yes I’m aware of the extenuating circumstances), Tom Pelphrey delivers some of the absolute best acting in the entire MCU as Ward Meachum. Like Iron Fist isn’t a great series, and it’s hard to recommend, but goddamn Tom’s performance is so good it’s worth watching just for the moments he’s on screen. Thankfully the show’s quality increases enormously in the second season, including Finn’s performance marginally, but even that is really only enough to bring it up to middling amongst the rest of the Marvel Netflix bounty, in my opinion.
The frustrating thing about Iron Fist is that while the main character mails in his performance meekly, especially in the fight scenes (yes I’m aware of the extenuating circumstances), Tom Pelphrey delivers some of the absolute best acting in the entire MCU as Ward Meachum. Like Iron Fist isn’t a great series, and it’s hard to recommend, but goddamn Tom’s performance is so good it’s worth watching just for the moments he’s on screen. Thankfully the show’s quality increases enormously in the second season, including Finn’s performance marginally, but even that is really only enough to bring it up to middling amongst the rest of the Marvel Netflix bounty, in my opinion.
Still prefer it vastly to Punisher, though.