Please, feel free to add anything that took you a while to figure out to this list. What things only clicked later for you, whether because the show was clever or because you were just kind of stupid? (I don't think anyone has started a post like this on here yet, but please let me know if I'm wrong...) I have a couple to share:
1. Foggy's facepalming when Matt uses his "like listening to your voice" line on Karen looks like he's upset about Matt hitting on the girl he's interested in, again, when we see it in Episode 5 ("World on Fire"). We the audience know it's a line because he used a very similar one on Claire in Episode 4 ("In the Blood").
But in Episode 10 ("Nelson v. Murdock"), we learn that Foggy has asked Matt what he wants in a girl and is told, "I guess just someone I really like listening to." And Foggy doesn't know that Matt used a similar line on Claire. In retrospect, that facepalm looks more like, "Oh, Matt's actually interested in the girl I'm interested in!" (Whether that is also an "again" situation, who knows?)
To carry on from this, I maintain that Foggy's side of the weirdness in his "date" with Karen at the end of Episode 5 (the same one where Matt hit on her) is that he's half interested in her, half vetting her for Matt. He complains about Matt's weakness for beautiful, moral-less women throughout the first half of the season even more than he bemoans his own lack of relationships. I think he'd rather see Matt settled down with someone who isn't crazy than get a cute girl for himself at this point, because he isn't attracted to the same kind of toxic that Matt is. (Although he questions that after talking with Marci, hah.) And that still doesn't explain exactly what Karen thinks she's doing during their date.
2. Speaking of Marci in Episode 5, I finally feel kind of sorry for her. It's taken me this long (months!) to figure out: they set us up by talking about the sharks at Landman & Zack, and Matt warns about splashing too much, that it will attract them, and... Marci ends up throwing a bunch of stuff at Foggy's strengths (him "crashing and burning" at L&Z; "commitment issues" for a man who has set up a practice in his hometown with his law school roommate), while Foggy immediately jumps on the very real weaknesses to Marci's case. Which one's the shark here, and which the flailing swimmer? And which is the really stupid viewer? (Oooh, me, me!)
However much people (including me) like fuzzy, warm-hearted, awkward Foggy Nelson, we have to remember: this is a man who could have made it at Landman & Zack, as we learn in Episode 10. And Marci came in after him and Matt, while presumably graduating the same year; she's second choice. Those accusations she was throwing at Foggy? Start to look an awful lot like her own vulnerabilities. Blood in the water, you might even say.
Wow, I'm slow: Fridge logic (or fridge horror) from watching Daredevil
1. Foggy's facepalming when Matt uses his "like listening to your voice" line on Karen looks like he's upset about Matt hitting on the girl he's interested in, again, when we see it in Episode 5 ("World on Fire"). We the audience know it's a line because he used a very similar one on Claire in Episode 4 ("In the Blood").
But in Episode 10 ("Nelson v. Murdock"), we learn that Foggy has asked Matt what he wants in a girl and is told, "I guess just someone I really like listening to." And Foggy doesn't know that Matt used a similar line on Claire. In retrospect, that facepalm looks more like, "Oh, Matt's actually interested in the girl I'm interested in!" (Whether that is also an "again" situation, who knows?)
To carry on from this, I maintain that Foggy's side of the weirdness in his "date" with Karen at the end of Episode 5 (the same one where Matt hit on her) is that he's half interested in her, half vetting her for Matt. He complains about Matt's weakness for beautiful, moral-less women throughout the first half of the season even more than he bemoans his own lack of relationships. I think he'd rather see Matt settled down with someone who isn't crazy than get a cute girl for himself at this point, because he isn't attracted to the same kind of toxic that Matt is. (Although he questions that after talking with Marci, hah.) And that still doesn't explain exactly what Karen thinks she's doing during their date.
2. Speaking of Marci in Episode 5, I finally feel kind of sorry for her. It's taken me this long (months!) to figure out: they set us up by talking about the sharks at Landman & Zack, and Matt warns about splashing too much, that it will attract them, and... Marci ends up throwing a bunch of stuff at Foggy's strengths (him "crashing and burning" at L&Z; "commitment issues" for a man who has set up a practice in his hometown with his law school roommate), while Foggy immediately jumps on the very real weaknesses to Marci's case. Which one's the shark here, and which the flailing swimmer? And which is the really stupid viewer? (Oooh, me, me!)
However much people (including me) like fuzzy, warm-hearted, awkward Foggy Nelson, we have to remember: this is a man who could have made it at Landman & Zack, as we learn in Episode 10. And Marci came in after him and Matt, while presumably graduating the same year; she's second choice. Those accusations she was throwing at Foggy? Start to look an awful lot like her own vulnerabilities. Blood in the water, you might even say.