Marvel's The Defender Season 1 features four of New York City's best, who come together to defeat their common enemy, The Hand.  The series casts   Luke Cage ( Mike Colter ) as man-with-unbreakable-skin, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) as a bored-narcissistic-insult-throwing-super-bitch, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) as the infamous Devil of Hell's Kitchen and Danny Rand (Finn Jones) as billionaire -boy-candy-iron-fist. Creator:   Douglas Petrie ,  Marco Ramirez Season 1 premiere date:   Aug 18, 2017 Episode Length:   50 Episode 1 ( The H Word ) The start of the show is indeed way too slow for my taste. The starting scene is from Cambodia where the Iron fist, along with his sidekick Colleen Wing, is chasing the Hand, the shadow organization that destroyed his spiritual home Kun'Lun and killed all the elders. A member of chaste tells them that the real fight is in New York City after he has been mortally wounded by a very mysterious wom...