The response to (the long-awaited) first season of Daredevil: Born Again has been "mad" and "overwhelming," series lead Charlie Cox shared with TVLine on the red (OK, blue) carpet for Disney's annual Upfront presentation Tuesday.

After a nearly three-year wait, and a creative revamp midway through shooting, "I wasn't sure how people were going to feel about it," Cox says in the video above. "It's different, plus we did some things in that first season that fans might not be too pleased about."

Cox himself recently went on record as not being a fan of Season 1's fifth episode ("I don't believe in a bank heist in 2025," he said), but he fully appreciates that many viewers felt differently.

"It wasn't necessarily my favorite, but it goes to show you can never tell what people are going to want," he allows.

Cox said that they are now "halfway through" filming the nine-episode Season 2, which will chronicle how Daredevil and his "army" (a fellow Defender now included!) might battle Mayor Fisk's "Safer Streets" lockdown.

"We are living in a very oppressive, claustrophobic New York," he previewed. "You're frightened to be out, to be seen... you can't voice your concerns, your desire for change.... It's very French Resistance."

In closing, Cox promised "a lot more" of leading lady Deborah Ann Woll in Season 2, after her Karen Page appeared in just a couple of the Season 1 episodes. And to that, he says, "Thank God."

In fact, Cox effused, "some of the stuff she's up to is some of the coolest stuff she's ever had," including across 36 episodes of Netflix's own Daredevil series. "She's amazing in this season."