On this week’s episode of Daredevil: Born Again, Matt Murdock has a showdown with serial killer Muse. The masked murderer has been stalking the streets of New York City, using his victims’ blood to paint murals (just like in this one Criminal Minds episode — OK, OK, I’ll stop derailing).
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Daredevil: Born Again.]
As it turns out, Muse has a personal connection to Matt Murdock, even if neither of them realize. His real name is Bastian, and he’s a regular patient of Heather Glenn, Matt’s girlfriend. Bastian has also decided that his next perfect victim is Heather, and his masterpiece won’t be complete without her blood.
It all seems… strangely familiar (even beyond that Criminal Minds unsub).
If Muse looks familiar, and if the acts of killing and violence he’s partaking in also ring a bell, it might be because you watched Wednesday. Because actor Hunter Doohan played Tyler Galpin in Netflix’s Addams Family series (spoilers for Wednesday ahead!) — aka the cute barista who turned out to be a murderous, bloodthirsty creature called the Hyde.
In Wednesday, he also develops an unhealthy attachment to his therapist and ends up killing her. However, as the Hyde, Tyler was being manipulated by Christina Ricci’s character in an attempt to wipe out all outcasts (that’s getting into deep Wednesday lore that quite frankly hasn’t been meaningfully addressed in the show). Unfortunately, he’s not an artist — but the other edgy teenage boy who Wednesday suspected did make some moody, broody art.
I don’t know what it is about Doohan that inspires people to cast him as an unlikely serial killer, but apparently there’s just something about this man that screams murder. His career has been full of killer roles. He played a teenage boy involved in a hit-and-run in the Showtime series Your Honor. In Apple TV Plus’ Truth Be Told, he played the teenage version of a murderer — albeit one who was wrongfully convicted.
Maybe it’s the scrawny, reedy, plant-that-needs-sunlight look that he has going on. I mean this as a compliment. People (me) love brooding skinny white men. Pair that with the tousled curls and a handsome face that can go from “I’m in emotional pain :(” to “I am inflicting physical pain >:)” in two seconds flat, and you’ve got the visual aesthetic of a killer.
To paraphrase the great Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, “If I had a nickel for every time Hunter Doohan played a serial killer with an obsession with his therapist, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.”
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