So Marvel Netflix has had an...interesting year so far.
Iron Fist was a critical failure, and Defenders, while I really enjoyed it, a lot of people
found it a bit underwhelming.
But now the year is being rounded out by a returning character from Daredevil getting
his own show.
So, now that the Punisher is out, let's talk about it.
*clip* And I'm just gonna go full spoilers with
this, cuz that's really the only way I can talk about this properly.
The short version, go watch it, it's damn good.
Alright, spoilers, you've been warned.
So, like I just mentioned, it's a good show.
It's actually a really good show.
I don't really get the mixed reception this has received.
Yes it's not perfect, and it starts a bit weak, but a lot of this is just fantastic.
Firstly, the cast and characters here are great.
I think Jon Bernthal's a great actor, and this is the best he's ever been.
He's perfect as this character, some of the best casting in the MCU period.
Not only is he great in the action, but he's great in scenes of deep emotion or just when
he has to be very intimidating.
Plus he does a pretty great angry growl yell.
In the rest of the cast there isn't really a weak link, everyone is great.
I especially liked Curtis, Dinah, Micro, and Billy, or I guess he's Jigsaw by the end.
Ben Barnes plays a great villain, at first I was just like, oh this guy is kind of greasy
and sleazy and whatever, but by the end he was kind of terrifying in a way.
Another great Marvel Netflix villain.
Also, I really enjoyed the Punisher Micro dynamic here.
Also, Turk Barrett shows up again, which is awesome.
I think this running kind of joke of the different Defenders always beating him up for information
is great, and I thought him showing up here was really funny.
Though this was the first time I ever thought he might actually die, czu if anyone's gonna
kill Turk Barrett, it's The Punisher.
Now, in terms of action, there's a negative and a positive.
The negative is the action scenes are just a little bit few and far between, like for
a character like the Punisher you'd expect there to be a little more, especially at the
start.
But the positive is, the action is spectacular.
After kind of average stuff Iron Fist, Luke Cage, even Jessica Jones and Defenders, where
the action is good, just not amazing most of the time, it's great to finally go back
to the action being phenomenal.
This is up there with the Daredevil stuff, it's exciting, it's well shot, well edited,
there's some pretty creative stuff in here, and above all it is insanely brutal.
The action's very different from Daredevil, but I'd say it's almost just as good,
how it's all set up and the choreography is fantastic.
And that's something else I wanna touch on with this.
I know I say this with all the Marvel Netflix shows, don't show this to kids, cuz there's
some dark and violent stuff in here.
But this is the next level of that.
I wouldn't even show this to some teenagers.
This is by far the most brutal and violent entry into the MCU, it's kind of insane.
In fact, this is one of the most brutal and violent TV shows I've ever seen.
I'd say maybe just below or on the same level as Game of Thrones.
This does not shy away from the kills, shows neck snaps, stabbings, and just full on getting
shot right in the face all front and center.
This is a super adult show, mostly the violence but there's also some sex and language and
very adult themes, point is, don't watch this with your kids.
Or, for teens who are old enough to watch this, maybe don't watch it with your parents
cuz it might get weird and awkward at points.
However, all of this violence I have to say gives us the perfect representation of The
Punisher on screen.
I haven't read a ton of Punisher comics, but from what I have read and from his appearances
in other stuff, this is exactly how this character should be, not only the performance but just
everything he does and the world that surrounds him.
I imagine huge PUnisher fans will love this aspect of it, it definitely does this character
his bloody, bloody justice in a way only Marvel Netflix could.
At one point he suits up in the Punisher armor and just goes through like 20 guys with no
remorse, and it's pretty spectacular.
The show like all the other Marvel Netflix shows is also very well made, it's well
shot and most of the technical aspects are great here.
There are also some really tense, the show on the whole is pretty intense.
And really, I found it kinda refreshing to get back to this Daredevil season 1, Jessica
Jones way more grounded level for these Netflix shows.
Like, there are no magical fists or dragon bones here, this is just straight ahead, real
world, super bloody and gritty.
If you didn't know this was set in the same world as say the Avengers, you could totally
just watch this as it's own stand alone grounded series, about this vigilante who
takes care of things in the most murdery way possible.
Along with being the most violent thing in the MCU yet, this is also the most real thing
we've seen in this universe.
Like besides the occasional kinda over-the-top comic book villain or the fact that really
the Punisher should be dead like several times over from all the damage he takes, but besides
all that, this is really realistic.
Not only in terms of how grounded the action is, but like the characters and their struggles.
A big part of this show is PTSD and how soldiers cope with war and what they've done when
they come home, and that sets this apart form other stuff in the MCU and makes this much
more interesting.
It's very real world, which makes you care about the characters even more.
There are flashbacks to war that are great and pretty realistic, and that extra level
just added something to this that I feel like we haven't really seen in the MCU yet.
Not to this degree anyway.
I also think its weird to think about that in the same world where the Guardians of the
Galaxy are fighting sentient planets, people getting their limbs blown off by bombs and
this kind of stuff is happening.
The characters and their interactions are also really great here, not only Frank Castle
and the arc he goes through with his family and coming to terms with it and all that,
but a lot of the characters in this actually have quite interesting arcs.
The friendships and relationships that grow are believable and I enjoyed watching them,
and there are even some emotional moments in here which I did not expect.
In episode 9 when Curtis is having a little bit of a monologue, that was surprisingly
quite emotional.
Just a few quick things, the show has great choices in music,
just in general throughout.
The ending is also amazing, like I'll get into in a second, the show gets better and
better as it goes, and it all builds to a really great ending.
It does get a tiny cliche-ish, like the villain starts monologuing and says you and I are
the same and all that, but that whole scene on the carousel is still awesome.
Now that I've gushed about this for so long, what are the negatives here.
Because like all the Marvel Netflix shows, this isn't perfect.
Firstly, the start of it, as in the first few episodes are good, but start to drag a
little.
Like pretty much all these shows have two or three episodes that are a little slow,
and usually those are saved for around the middle or end, but this one gets them out
of the way right off the bat.
I would say, episodes 1 to 3 are a bit poorly paced, episodes 4-8 are really good, pick
it up a bit, and episodes 9-13 just go all out and are amazing.
And while I do appreciate a show that gets better as it goes, so you really have stuff
to look forward to, those first three episodes or so can be a tad hard to get through.
Like they still have the great acting and the great action and all that, but it starts
to get a bit repetitive.
Like the Frank Castle stuff is good, although he has that wife flashback one too many times
I'd say, but the just general police procedural stuff with Dinah and Stein at this point is
a little generic and not very interesting.
And in general, in the first episodes there's a lot of plodding around and moving and trying
to find out stuff.
There's a fine line between a slow build and bit of a drag and this was just a little
on the wrong side a few times.
Unlike Iron Fist, which was a lot of that, this was pretty interesting stuff, like it
wasn't very boring.
But just, there's some fat you could've cut there.
And, as I've always complained about with these shows with the exception of the Defenders,
why is this 13 episodes.
There are, let's say 9 or even 10 really fantastic tight exciting episodes in here.
But because they make it 13, we're left with some fantastic episodes and just some
kind of eh stuff that could've been cut down.
I just don't understand this decision.
At least it gets them out of the way early on.
Even after those first few episodes, the story is good but can get a little meandering sometimes.
Like it'll go from subplot to subplot and most of it is interesting, but some stuff
is less interesting than other stuff.
Again, this is all fixed later on when all these stories intertwine, but earlier on that
soldier who is suffering from PTSD and kind of crazy plot isn't as engaging.
A few times also this feels like its sort of following a Marvel Netflix formula.
LIke at one point the cops get involved and about half way through a secondary villain
is introduced and then there's a big twist involving a character's past and you know,
at points it kind of feels like its just going through a checklist.
Also, this is a weird thing that I don't really know if it's legitimate, cuz maybe
this happens less than I thought it did, but at some point this feels a little low budget.
And I don't mean in terms of action or effects or any of that, I just mean, they spent a
lot of time in that Micro hideout set.
Like, a lot.
Sure they branch out here and there, but occasionally it starts to feel a tad claustrophobic, or
not even claustrophobic but just like a weirdly small world when you spent a lot of time at
about three locations, mainly Micro's lab.
Also, the storyline with Micro's wife and his kids and all that is really good, despite
some less than amazing child acting, but it does end up feeling a tad pointless in some
ways.
Like don't get me wrong, it fleshes out Frank Castle and especially Micro more, and
it does definitely come into play in the end.
But it only ties in really right at the end, before that it never really intersects with
the main story that much, so it kinda makes you wonder why they spend so much time on
it.
Like spend some time on it sure, for character development and to establish them for the
final episodes, but considering it doesn't really tie into the grand scheme of things
that much for most of it, I just thought they spent a tiny bit too much time on it.
Again though, I did enjoy most of those scenes.
The show also tries to have some political commentary kind of stuff with gun rights and
that sort of thing, which makes it slightly more interesting and real world feeling, cuz
that topic is obviously very relevant today.
But I just never felt like it did anything very deep with it.
Like the show kind of mentions it a few times cuz in today's world with a show about this
kind of thing you couldn't really not mention it, but it doesn't really go anywhere with
it.
It doesn't have a solid message or try to say anything about it, which I understand
cuz you don't wanna go one very direct way about a super decisive issue in a show like
this that's supposed to appeal to a large audience, but just a little more than what
we got would've made it feel more like it had a purpose in the show.
There's also some not very subtle foreshadowing in this, like when Curtis says something like,
take my leg off and beat me up with it, I was like, that is so gonna happen to someone
at some point.
Turns out it was him.
Also, I didn't even know that Ben Barnes's character was Jigsaw, but because they kept
talking about how pretty his face was, I knew that something was going to really mess it
up by the end.
Now my last point here isn't even really a negative, it's just something to note.
When this was first announced, I was kinda skeptical cuz i didn't know if a show around
the Punisher would work, like he's so dark and so incredibly violent, I mean it works
in comics but a whole season centered around him, could get a little depressing.
And really, it does start to feel a little excessive and unpleasant here, like at the
end of episode 11 when he kills all those guys, yes that's an awesome action scene
and very comic accurate and all that, but it's also a little unpleasant.
There are characters who disagree with how he does stuff in this, but with Frank Castle
being the main main character without a main moral compass like Daredevil, it can feel
a bit….I guess unpleasant is the word.
It's a unique and new perspective and I liked that, but when he's shooting people
right in the face without a second thought I'm thinking, am I really supposed to be
rooting for this guy.
But then again that's not really a complaint because I guess the show kind of wants you
to ask these questions.
So in conclusion, I thought the Punisher season 1 was pretty fantastic.
Yes it has a kind of slow start, and yes the story is a little meandering sometimes and
yes this definitely could've been 8 to 10 episodes, why Marvel do you do this to us?
But besides that, it's a very well made look into a super interesting and super brutal
corner of the MCU, and even besides that it's just a great action drama with good characters
and dialogue that really could be set in any world.
I'll give it a 9.3/10.
So those were my thoughts on The Punisher.
What did you think of this?
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