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The Punisher

I've watched the whole thing. FULL SPOILERS DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED.

It's a good series. Certainly better than Iron Fist and Luke Cage. Jon Bernthal really does a great job as Frank and is always compelling to watch. I found some of the violence a bit hard to look at at times, but it can also be satisfying watching him kill bad guys in really horrible ways. I mean, it's not real so it's probably okay to enjoy that!

It does suffer a bit from the same problem as most of these Marvel Netflix shows where it goes on a bit too long and the story starts to drag. Some scenes felt repetitive. I don't know if they really explain why Billy was a bad guy either, he mentions some backstory about being an orpan and there's that one scene with his mother, but we never really get into his head. It was also kind of predictable that he'd turn out to be bad after Ben Barnes just played a bad guy in Westworld.

I liked Dana and it was good to see The Expanse lady with the name I can't spell as her mum.

It's interesting that they didn't really leave many hooks for a season two (outside of Billy still being alive.)

I liked that Frank left Turk alive because he knew Turk's needed for comic relief in the other Netflix shows.

So yeah it was good I liked it.
 
CaptainWacky said:
I've watched the whole thing. FULL SPOILERS DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED.

It's a good series. Certainly better than Iron Fist and Luke Cage. Jon Bernthal really does a great job as Frank and is always compelling to watch. I found some of the violence a bit hard to look at at times, but it can also be satisfying watching him kill bad guys in really horrible ways. I mean, it's not real so it's probably okay to enjoy that!

It does suffer a bit from the same problem as most of these Marvel Netflix shows where it goes on a bit too long and the story starts to drag. Some scenes felt repetitive. I don't know if they really explain why Billy was a bad guy either, he mentions some backstory about being an orpan and there's that one scene with his mother, but we never really get into his head. It was also kind of predictable that he'd turn out to be bad after Ben Barnes just played a bad guy in Westworld.

I liked Dana and it was good to see The Expanse lady with the name I can't spell as her mum.

It's interesting that they didn't really leave many hooks for a season two (outside of Billy still being alive.)

I liked that Frank left Turk alive because he knew Turk's needed for comic relief in the other Netflix shows.

So yeah it was good I liked it.
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Watched this in two sitting, and really enjoyed it. Entirely free of any Marvel costumes or powers it totally worked - the last couple of episodes were some of the most brutal and visceral TV I've seen in a long while
 
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Lady Stilt Man!? lol

I watched 7 and 8 last night. I'm almost finished Wacky!
 
I saw episode 11 earlier. It really does get more intense and interesting as it goes on and Frank really grows on you.
 
I just finished. It was really good, maybe my favorite of all the series so far.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SPOILER TAGS ARE. :rwmad:
 
Ewwww you like the Monkees? You know they don’t write their own songs...?

I finished The Punisher it was the 13 hour investment, though as Wacky says it did drag at times and could have been maybe 3 or 4 episodes shorter without really losing anything. It seemed especially slow at the beginning and I don’t know if that was intentional to build up the tension or what. I didn’t feel like it was especially well used as a quiet time to get us familiar with the characters, if that was the intention. I didn’t really take to any of them until the more action oriented episodes, where you really saw them tested.

There were three acts of violence which made me cringe and want to look away; in a flashback when Frank was bashing an Afghan’s head in, the eyeball squishing scene and the bit with the mirror at the end. I don’t think any of these were inappropriate, though. They inform you of the characters state of mind, or they’re retribution against people who deserve it.

Not sure where they can take the series from here. In some ways it doesn’t really feel like it needs a second season. He had a mission, he completed it. Nothing else could be as personal and revealing of his character. But of course they’ll do more.
 
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