Kingpin Owns New York & Jessica Jones Is Back: Everything You Need to Know Before Daredevil Born Again Season 2

The wait is almost over. Daredevil Born Again Season 2 premieres on Disney+ on March 24, 2026 — just 18 days away — and the build-up has been everything a fan of Hell's Kitchen's finest could have hoped for. Jessica Jones is back. Bullseye is loose and possibly working with Daredevil. Foggy Nelson is returning from the dead in some capacity. Matthew Lillard is playing a mysterious CIA figure going up against Kingpin. And Mayor Wilson Fisk is crushing New York City underfoot while hunting down public enemy number one — the vigilante known as Daredevil. Resist. Rebel. Rebuild. Here is everything you need to know before March 24. The Story: Kingpin Has Won — For Now Season 2 picks up with Wilson Fisk firmly entrenched as Mayor of New York City — the corrupt empire he has spent years building now backed by the full weight of municipal government and a new Anti-Vigilante Task Force designed with one purpose: to hunt down and destroy Daredevil. Matt Murdock — beaten, bruised, and operating from the shadows — must find a way to resist Fisk's stranglehold on the city he loves while simultaneously rebuilding his own identity as both a lawyer and a hero. The season's official tagline — Resist. Rebel. Rebuild — captures the arc perfectly. This is not a story of triumph. It is a story of survival under impossible pressure, with redemption waiting at the end of a very long, very dark tunnel. Krysten Ritter Returns as Jessica Jones — The Biggest MCU Reunion Since Defenders The single most exciting element of Season 2 is the confirmed return of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones — the sardonic, superhumanly strong private investigator last seen in her own Netflix series in 2019. Ritter is the first of the Netflix Marvel heroes — outside the Daredevil cast itself — to fully cross over into the main MCU continuity on Disney+, following Jon Bernthal's Punisher appearance in Season 1. Marvel TV boss Brad Winderbaum has described Jessica Jones' role in Season 2 as comparable to the Punisher's role in Season 1 — a major supporting presence whose arc is woven throughout the season rather than a cameo. The trailer's standout moment — Jones looking at an injured Matt and deadpanning "I hope you can walk, because I'm not carrying you," before helping him up — is exactly the energy that made her one of the most beloved characters in Marvel's Netflix era. The creative team has confirmed the season will also catch audiences up on what Jones has been doing in the years since her Netflix series ended — described as containing "a lot of very cool surprises." Bullseye: Loose, Dangerous & Possibly Working With Daredevil Wilson Bethel's Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter — Bullseye — escaped from prison at the end of Season 1, and Season 2 is picking up that thread with what showrunner Dario Scardapane has described as the best character arc in the MCU. Set photos have revealed a genuinely shocking development: Daredevil and Bullseye — the most dangerous and personal of Matt Murdock's enemies — apparently working together. The precise nature of that alliance remains tightly guarded, but its implications are significant. A Bullseye who is allied with Daredevil rather than hunting him fundamentally changes the power dynamic in the fight against Kingpin — and Bethel's Season 1 performance was compelling enough that giving him a more morally complex arc feels like exactly the right creative call. The Full Cast: Old Faces, New Additions The Season 2 ensemble is the richest in the show's history. Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio anchor proceedings as Daredevil and Kingpin respectively — the central duality that makes Born Again work at its core. Deborah Ann Woll returns as Karen Page and Elden Henson returns as Foggy Nelson — despite Foggy having been killed in Season 1's premiere — in what the creative team has described as appearances that honour the character's legacy without betraying the season's events. Ayelet Zurer is back as Vanessa Fisk. Margarita Levieva returns as Heather Glenn. Michael Gandolfini reprises Daniel Blake. New additions bring significant energy. Matthew Lillard plays Mr. Charles — described as a CIA figure who is decidedly not impressed by Kingpin and is set up as a potential antagonist operating in the shadows alongside Fisk. Lili Taylor joins as the Governor of New York — a political opponent to Fisk whose presence raises the stakes of the Kingpin's political empire. Camila Rodriguez's Angela Del Toro steps into a central role this season — set photos strongly suggesting she becomes the new White Tiger. And Sydney Parra rounds out a new cast with genuine star potential. The MCU Context: Before Spider-Man Brand New Day Season 2 lands at a particularly significant moment in the MCU's street-level landscape. The creative team has confirmed they were in constant dialogue with the filmmakers behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day — due in July 2026 — to ensure that events and character appearances between the two projects line up coherently. Jon Bernthal's Punisher will not appear in Born Again Season 2 — he is being saved for Brand New Day — but the creative thread connecting Hell's Kitchen's vigilantes to the wider MCU has never been tighter. Season 2 premieres March 24 on Disney+ at 9pm Eastern. Whether episodes drop weekly or all at once remains officially unconfirmed — but either way, March 24 cannot come soon enough. For the latest entertainment and streaming coverage, follow digital8hub.com.