Though Daredevil Season 3 was a noteworthy high point for the franchise – and I was personally quite invested in The Punisher’s second season – the Defenders’ standalone seasons haven’t exactly taken the world by storm, and each show’s streaming audience reportedly dipped hard between seasons.
For anyone paying attention to the way things were going for Netflix and the MCU, both behind the scenes and from a critical standpoint, Krysten Ritter’s words to TVLine might not be all THAT surprising.