So the Marvel television universe actually has made a pretty interesting home for itself on Netflix, using 13-episode seasons to dig into a superhero's world, pushing out against its implications of the character's concept in greater depth than a film can. <I>Luke Cage</I> deftly and powerfully uses its lead hero and the iconic neighborhood of Harlem to dig into black culture and contemporary issues; what I've seen of <I>Daredevil</I> is stylish, guilt-suffused, but draggier; <I>Jessica Jones</I> is reportedly very good and <I>Iron Fist</I>, well, we'll see.
They're all too long, sometimes struggling to fill 60 minutes, which relegates them to background viewing for me, but I'm intrigued by what they're doing just the same. (The four heroes will be brought together in joint miniseries, <I>The Defenders</I>, not unlike their counterparts on the big screen.)