If in your list of series to watch on Netflix you have titles like Daredevil, Jessica Jones, luke cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher YThe Defendersyou better hurry up and start marathoning, because all these productions based on the Marvel characters, They will only be available on the streaming platform until February 28, and from March 1 they will be out of the catalog.
In these days, it was announced that, in regions such as the United Kingdom and the United States, the series mentioned appear with a notice indicating that the last day they will be available on Netflix will be March 28and this Friday, said notice also appeared for users in Latin America, including Mexico.
Despite the success of these series, especially that of DaredevilIn 2018, Netflix decided to cancel it, along with two other Marvel series, Iron Fist and Luke Cage; a year later, Jessica Jones and The Punisher met the same fate.
It has not yet been announced what will happen to these contents once they are removed from the Netflix platform.However, now that Disney and Marvel Studios have regained the rights to the characters that appear in them, they will most likely stream via Disney Plus or, due to the greater degree of violence that they include, their sister company Star Plus, in the case of Latin America, or Hulu in other regions.
The departure of the Marvel series from Netflix comes shortly after Matt Murdock, identity of the Daredevil played by Charlie Cox, appeared in a brief cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the most recent film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe; while Kingpin, the villain of Daredevil who is played by the actor Vincent D’Onofrio, also had a participation in the series of hawk eyewhich also belongs to the UCM.
For now, beyond the notices that are displayed when playing the aforementioned series on Netflix, there is no official announcement from this streaming platform regarding the departure of the Marvel series; however, it is not a surprising decision, Well, since the launch of Disney Plus was being prepared, the then CEO, Bob Iger, said that the company would bring its own content to the service; and it is something that is already happening.
On the other hand, this does not mean that Netflix is going to lose all its content related to Marvel characters, since other series such as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and some animated ones, like X Men Y lego-marvelthey do not have the message with the deadline to see them, which means that, at least for the moment, they will continue on the platform.