Iron Fist SEASON ONE

 

The character made his first appearance on  May 1974, in issue #15 of Marvel Premiere.  Iron Fist was a co-creation of Gil Kane (Green Lantern) and Roy Thomas (Conan the Barbarian). Centering around a man who can summon a mystical force by channeling his chi.  An ability he developed within the city of K'un-Lun.

Similar to a batman origins, as did the CW's re-telling of Oliver Queen in the series Arrow.  This version deposits the Iron Fist who as Danny Rand was legal heir to a billion dollar corporation, His family was tragically killed in the series opener flashback, while Danny was at a young age of 10. He lived in a hidden monastery, inside a pocket dimension which opens its doors to the real world every 15 years.  Like Oliver Queen, in those missing years the monks of Kun-Lun trained and transformed Danny into a living weapon and sworn enemy of the Hand; Deadly assassins whose reach covers all corners of the world.

The Show's composer is a Canadian music producer Trevor Morris, whose credits include scoring television shows like Vikings, The Borgias, and The Tudors  (which awarded a primetime Emmy  for original main title theme).  The season's showrunner was Scott Buck whose previous works was writing for HBO's Six Feet Under series, and co-executive producing HBO's Rome.  Buck was later the showrunner for the final 3 seasons of showtime's Dexter. With an impressive track record on his resume Buck was hired  to serve as showrunner and executive producer for Iron Fist in late 2015, and a year later showrunner and executive producer for the ABC television series Inhumans. Both shows received overwhelmingly negative reviews by both critics and the general audiences. As Inhumans was initially set for a three season run and was decisively cancelled just after one.   Unfortunately, Buck has not been working or been accredited for any production since the one, two punch of his disregarded television works.

The season's most ambitious and daring episode was episode 6, titled "Immortal Emerged from Cave". Directed by RZA, written by Dwain Worrell, the series takes place with Danny and Collen flying to China to stop Madam Gao. The episode has Danny Rand facing a series of martial art masters like a game of death gauntlet, and kicks off  the confrontation with an interlude which pays homage to Jackie Chan's the drunken master.  RZA who is a member of the Wu-tang clan and renown fan of martial art theatre, induced a refreshing out of the box story to an otherwise uncolorful series.