Dario Scardapane watched as Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 failed to register on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming originals chart for the week of April 13-19, 2026, even though Season 2 Episode 5, "The Grand Design," was available on Disney+ during that Nielsen week.
The concrete measure is simple and unforgiving: the No. 10 title on the April 13-19 chart, Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors, logged 332 million minutes watched. Daredevil did not appear on the Top 10, which means Episode 5 did not clear that 332 million-minute mark for the week. Other series that did make the list included Netflix’s Temptation Island and Peacock’s The Miniature Wife; the full April 13-19 chart was led by HBO Max’s The Pitt, Prime Video’s The Boys and Netflix’s Big Mistakes.
The absence is not a one-off. According to the available reporting, Season 2 is now 0-for-5 on Nielsen’s weekly streaming originals chart, and the full Daredevil series stands at 0-for-14 across every episode available to Nielsen. Disney+ had no titles on the Top 10 originals chart for April 13-19, underscoring the platform’s blank spot on that week’s Nielsen list.
The gap is sharper when set against the week before. On April 6-12, Apple TV’s Shrinking held the No. 10 slot with 369 million minutes watched; the Nielsen cutoff fell by 37 million minutes from that week to April 13-19, dropping the No. 10 threshold to 332 million minutes — and still Daredevil’s Episode 5 did not clear it, despite being newly available on Disney+ during the tracked week.
That mismatch between availability and audience measurement is the story’s tension. A new episode being live on a platform would typically be expected to produce measurable viewing during its release week; instead, the title registered below Nielsen’s Top 10 floor even as that floor softened by 37 million minutes. The result is the blunt statistic that Season 2 remains 0-for-5, while the series overall is 0-for-14 in Nielsen’s weekly originals metric.
Voices connected to the material echoed a mixed tone. Scardapane, when discussing the show’s characters, said a potential clash between Bullseye and the Punisher “has to be done, someday,” framing creative ambition even as the Nielsen tally painted a more muted commercial picture. Lines spoken by the character Frank Castle — "You're hurtin' a lot right now, Richard, with good reason. But you don't want to be me. You needed to remember that." — underline the series' narrative intensity but do not change the numbers on the chart.
What happens next is straightforward and measurable: unless future episodes or a surge in viewing push Daredevil past the 332 million‑minute threshold (or whatever Nielsen’s next weekly cutoff becomes), the series will remain absent from Nielsen’s Top 10. For the week of April 13-19, 2026, the answer is clear — Episode 5 did not clear the minutes needed to chart, leaving Daredevil: Born Again with the same cold metric that has kept the franchise off Nielsen’s weekly originals list so far.
