Marvel's The Punisher

On Episode 5 and the series has officially secured it's position in greatness with an appearance by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

Bring in the hand, and Hydra to all the CIA, military bullshit and the like, and it totally shits on the story.
it becomes cartoonish. yes, you can have fun, and silly stories with the vets joining Hydra, Cobra, etc. Heck literally Cap 2 and 3 had this. However, you can not tell the PTSD storyline at the same time. The tone would be crushed. The brutality, and heartache of all the PTSD would be totally lost.

The whole show just needs to be Frank creatively murdering the fuck out of Mafia WoPs.

Just finished this and it's pretty good overall. I think someone mentioned it earlier but the show lacked really good gun fights.

Just finished, easily tops the other Marvel Netflix shows for me. I am a little disapointed that the stand-alone show didn't have any scenes that topped the prison scene in DDs2, but overall great stuff. I must be getting a little desensitized because I hadn't even considered the abundance of gun violence until I read this thread/reviews.

StoiCynic said:

Just finished, easily tops the other Marvel Netflix shows for me. I am a little disapointed that the stand-alone show didn't have any scenes that topped the prison scene in DDs2, but overall great stuff. I must be getting a little desensitized because I hadn't even considered the abundance of gun violence until I read this thread/reviews.

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Having said that, Frank dragging Russo's face down the mirror was fucking brutal.

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j00t said:

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yeah, i kept wondering how he was going to become jigsaw. then he got shot in the face and i was like OH THAT'S HOW... wait, that's a little gunshot. don't puss out on me frank... then he starts dragging his face on the mirror and *i* started pussing out. FRANK JUST KILL HIM! OH GOD

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Overall best marvel series as it seemed it only needed to be trimmed maybe by 2 episodes and not like the 4-5 all the other series are plagued with. I'm assuming Jigsaw for the next season but so help if they don't do Barracuda then season 2 is already straight trash. I did enjoy the Frank/Micro relationship but mid season needed a bit more Frank going full carnage mode.

Also hoping they go less Frank Bourne next season and just have a good back and forth between him and some kind of mob/mafia where the retaliation between the two escalates maybe even have a mid season arc where it's just him and Barracuda going ham on each other.

Chanur said:

Just finished. I think its the best Marvel show that's ever been put out.

Also can someone recommend a couple of the best Punisher books/series?

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punisher MAX by garth ennis.

Finally finished this up last night. Definitely the best of the Marvel TV shows so far.

The only minor gripe I have with the show is the woman who plays Dinah Madani. She was fine until the later episodes that required her to show her acting chops and I just don't think she's very good. Definitely not the worst in the Marvel TV show universe though and really not that bad.

I don't think the show is any more violent than any of the multitudes of cop dramas out there but it is WAY more graphic and that's probably why it's getting all these "too violent" reviews.

Khane said:

Finally finished this up last night. Definitely the best of the Marvel TV shows so far.

The only minor gripe I have with the show is the woman who plays Dinah Madani. She was fine until the later episodes that required her to show her acting chops and I just don't think she's very good. Definitely not the worst in the Marvel TV show universe though and really not that bad.

I don't think the show is any more violent than any of the multitudes of cop dramas out there but it is WAY more graphic and that's probably why it's getting all these "too violent" reviews.

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She doesn't need to act, just be naked.

Really loved this. Hope there's a season 2.

Definitely should be, it more than lived up to expectations.

Fantastic amounts of violence. I had to stop a couple of times and clear out my head from what I was seeing. Please don't neuter this Netflix, it's where it should be.

Luke Cage being 95% is just baffling to me. Did these people just stop watching the show half way through? I do not understand how anyone could have sat through the last third of that show and come out the other side still happy with what they saw.

ronne said:

Luke Cage being 95% is just baffling to me. Did these people just stop watching the show half way through? I do not understand how anyone could have sat through the last third of that show and come out the other side still happy with what they saw.

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Typically reviews come in before they finish the whole series. A lot of RT reviews of a series are based on either the first episode or the first few episodes, it really screws some series over. Really benefits some series like Luke Cage with a very strong opening set and a weak finish, doesn't support something like the Orville with a weak start.