Foggy Nelson

Daredevil is a great series and has been one of the surprise Netflix successes of recent times – it’s dark, it’s gritty and it even makes up for the horrible Ben Affleck movie of 2003 (which is really saying something).

Most of the characterisation is great; Charlie Cox in the titular role, Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk and Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, for example. However, one actor doesn’t quite channel the essence of his likeable comic book counterpart.

Elden Henson as Franklin “Foggy” Nelson isn’t a terrible character, as such, it’s just that he’s far more annoying than the pleasant version in the source material. Henson came into the series with some serious nerd points already – he was Fulton Reed in The Mighty Ducks, for heaven’s sake – but unless he starts making viewers like his lawyer character, he’s going to start having some of those points deducted.

Again, it’s not that his performance is bad, it’s just that it isn’t as good as the other main cast members in what is an extremely strong series – and it really is a far cry from the character he is supposed to be portraying.