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Iron Fist: A Postmortem

Danny, showing off his skinny jeans at Colleen's dojo. Well, now. Marvel's Iron Fist on Netflix certainly was a major disappointment, wasn't it? I'm a fan of the Danny Rand character and the mystical martial arts world he inhabits in Marvel Comics, which includes strong supporting cast members like Colleen Wing . I've read a lot of Iron Fist comics, so I was possibly more invested in this series than most people I know. So when the early buzz was terrible, my expectations started to plummet. It's wise to be wary of pre-release reviews, of course, especially in this case when they only screened the first six episodes of a thirteen episode series. Yet, in this instance, those early reviews were accurate. The show is a mess, and not an entertaining, b-movie style mess, but instead a convoluted and boring mess. The first few episodes were so interminably dull that I seriously contemplating quitting after the second. Things picked up a little after that, w...