The throat shot. The first trailer featured an unnamed character pulling a gun on a man next to him, and in the blink of an eye puts the gun to his throat facing upwards and pulls the trigger, with a rather visceral spraying of blood and brains being shown front and center. This was precisely 50 seconds after the "Marvel Studios" logo was displayed.
The show raises the chilling question of just how different is Maya really from Fisk when it comes to the capacity for murder and violence. The trailer even highlights this by cutting back a forth between Fisk beating on the vendor and Maya beating down a mook.
The show makes good use of sound when it comes to its action scenes. In Maya's first mission, a combatant begins overwhelming her. As the background audio fades, we begin to hear two audible heartbeats, one from Maya, the other from the combatant. And in one neck snap, we hear those two heartbeats become one.
Maya's bombing of Fisk's facility gives us a glimpse of the lengths Maya is willing to go to send a message to Fisk's organization.
Episode Three: "Tuklo"
Fisk's sudden appearance at Maya's house at the end, giving a genuine jumpscare that could make Michael Myers blush. His slow, stumbling gait and Kubrick Stare make Fisk seem almost undead.
Earlier, although he was an Asshole Victim and got Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves, when Vickie tries to flee Kingpin's Number Two Zane and his henchmen, Vickie gets a Multiple Gunshot Death from behind while trying to skip over a wall inside Henry's roller skating rink. In the process, Vickie crashes down on a small table on his back, where he coughs up a copious amount of Blood from the Mouth for a few seconds and then Dies Wide Open staring directly at Henry and Bonnie, who are bound and sitting a few feet away from him. The camera even lingers on Vickie's wide-eyed dead face a couple of times afterwards before the scene ends.
Episode Four: "Taloa"
A flashback shows Fisk and Maya at dinner with Fisk, considering Maya's training complete. He tells her longtime ASL interpreter, "You're dismissed." The woman heads out with a bodyguard, the camera focusing on Maya, who can't hear the woman suddenly pleading for her life just before a silenced gunshot is heard and goons wrap her body up in plastic. Fisk just keeps on eating like nothing happened, not even giving this longtime employee a second thought.
Fisk's "Sunday dinner" with Maya is dripping with tension. We've seen before how fast Fisk can flip between emotions so there's always that worry in the back of your head that he's going to suddenly attack Maya right there and then.
Kingpin's brutal beatdown of the ice cream vendor. He was being a jerk for mocking Maya's deafness, yes, but he did not deserve a pummeling as brutal as that.
On top of it is young Maya witnessing the act and even joining in on kicking the vendor. While it's hard to feel sympathy for the vendor, there's a bit of horror to Maya being exposed to such violence at a young age and at the time actually idolizing Fisk for it.
Episode Five: "Maya"
Fisk is willing to not just slaughter Maya's remaining family, purely out of spite that she rejected him, but he has two vanloads of heavily-armed mooks standing by to do the same to the Choctaw powwow. He's prepared to massacred dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent people, just because doing so will hurt her.
When Maya uses her newfound power to enter Kingpin's mind, we're given a chilling reminder of just how royally screwed up his Dark and Troubled Past was. The imposing, powerful crime lord who threw down with Daredevil and tossed Kate Bishop around like a ragdoll is reduced to whimpering like a scared child as his father can be heard abusing his mother from the other side of the wall. Kingpin's freak out was so bad that he pulled a Screw This, I'm Outta Here near immediately.
The Stinger in which Fisk sees news coverage of the mayoral campaign in New York, an idea clearly hatching in his mind. Fans familiar with a certain storyline may know the trouble now on the horizon.
