Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Streaming, the cord-cutters guide to the week that was—without a cable subscription. This week, we're catching up on all of the Marvel superheroes on Netflix and refusing to watch the new Superman movie. We're also mourning the loss of Gary Shandling and shaking our fists at the lack of availability of the Larry Sanders Show. 

'Daredevil' 

Recommended dosage: Leftovers from Hell's Kitchen 

I didn't watch Daredevil when it first came out. In fact, it took the release of Season Two this week to remind me that I never watched the first season. I had heard good reviews but wasn't terribly interested in watching a blind superhero doing a bunch of somersault kicks in the rain... again. I just wasn't into the character at all. 

In my defense, the last time Daredevil was a thing, this was the result:

And if you were unlucky enough to have seen the movie you'd know that was far from the worst part. It was historically bad. Ben Affleck's turn as the Devil of Hell's Kitchen was so bad Hollywood decided he'd never get to make a big studio movie again, much less squeeze into a suit again...

...oh god. Zack Snyder what did you do? You idiot. Man, that movie is going to suck.

Anyway, like I was saying, the second season of the highly acclaimed Daredevil show was just released on Netflix and I spent the past three days getting caught up. That's roughly 14 hours in a handful of sittings. I'm equally exhausted and impressed with the show. 

Daredevil makes a ton of sense as an episodic adventure. It has everything you'd want in a comic book adaptation: Epic fights, villains with real depth, excellent pacing and storytelling, grit, and on top of all of it the show loosely works as a legal procedural. Every episode ends with just enough of a cliffhanger that you want to watch another, yet nothing feels too cliché or heavy-handed. I thoroughly enjoyed the first season and am currently even deeper into this new season.

I almost forgot. The show has Deborah Ann Woll, the physical embodiment of how I describe my dream woman. 

Not only is she extremely pleasant to look at, the show does a great job keeping her busy doing cool and interesting things instead of just standing around looking pretty. She's a certifiable badass in the show and hopefully about to be a breakout star. I'm really looking forward to the rest of this season and literally everything thing else Netflix produces with Marvel.

'Jessica Jones' 

Recommended dosage: Straight whiskey from a drawer in your desk

I enjoyed watching Daredevil so much that I decided I would go back and give the other Marvel show on Netflix a second chance. I tried a few times to get into it when it came out, but never got past the second episode.

I can't quite put my finger on exactly what it is about Krysten Ritter's take on the titular character of Jessica Jones that irks me. Is she a bad actress? Maybe. Maybe not, but there's a sense of overacting to try to seem like she's not acting like she's acting to cool for school. And I hate it. Does that make sense? 

I love the idea of a strong female lead with all of the depressed and boozy baggage that comes from a noir-style detective series. It's brilliant. The problem is I look at Krysten Ritter drinking whiskey and I just can't help but think she's thinking to herself, God, I wish this was kombucha. I'm just not buying her as a tough and streetwise loaner. 

It's possible I never forgave her for getting Jesse Pinkman into heroin.

I have heard from multiple sources that the "big bad" at the center of the Jessica Jones season, a mind controlling villain named Kilgrave, is one of the best in the genre so I guess I'm gonna put it back in my queue and trust that the B in Apartment 23 gets better over the series.

'The Larry Sanders Show' 

Recommended dosage: A glass of cheap champagne from the green room

The Larry Sanders Show was one of the first shows I ever binge watched. I didn't have HBO growing up and had only seen small bits and pieces of the show before I caught it on Netflix years ago. I gobbled up every episode of it's impressive six season run like one of these Chinese tourists at a buffet.

The Larry Sanders Show was one of HBO's first real mainstream hits, and even though the audience was small, it gained a great cult following and duked it out with Frasier every year for Emmy nods.

It's been almost 20 years since the series finale and the show has remained incredibly influential, but unfortunately relatively unseen. It's funny that in this age of instant access to almost anything you could ever want to watch, it's virtually impossible to share one of my all time favorite shows.

Garry Shandling died this week and I'm saddened not only by his passing but by my inability to share a link that might get you binging on all of the hijinks involved behind the scenes of a late-night talk show.

I'm hoping Netflix or HBO will bring back an avenue of legal streaming so everyone can enjoy all 89 episode of this American classic. 

Here's a great clip from the Larry Sanders Show and an episode of Comedians in Cars getting Coffee with an incredibly melancholy title. Thanks Garry, you'll be missed.