Marvel's The Punisher (2017)

★ 8.1 0h 53m 2 Seasons 3,019 votes IMDb
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A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.

Marvel's The Punisher

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Cast

Jon Bernthal
Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle / Punisher Age 49 · Washington, D.C., USA Jonathan Edward Bernthal (/ˈbɜːrnθɔːl/; born September 20, 1976) is an American actor. He came to prominence for portraying Shane Walsh on the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2010–2012; 2018...
Ben Barnes
Ben Barnes as Billy Russo Age 44 · London, England, UK Ben Barnes is a British stage, film and television actor and singer, best known for playing Prince Caspian in the feature film "Prince Caspian" and King Caspian in "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", bo...
Amber Rose Revah
Amber Rose Revah as Dinah Madani Age 39 · London, England, UK Amber Rose Revah (born 24 June 1986) is a British actress and writer. She is known for playing Dinah Madani in Marvel's The Punisher. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amber Rose Revah, li...
Josh Stewart
Josh Stewart as John Pilgrim Age 49 · Diana, West Virginia, USA Joshua Regnall Stewart (born February 6, 1977) is an American actor best known for his role as Holt McLaren in the FX TV series Dirt. He was also cast as Brendan Finney in the final season of the NBC...
Jason R. Moore
Jason R. Moore as Curtis Hoyle Kingston, Jamaica Jason R. Moore is a Jamaican-American actor based in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason R. Moore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipe...
Floriana Lima
Floriana Lima as Dr. Krista Dumont Age 45 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Lima was a series regular in the internet comedy Poor Paul (2008-2009) and later became a series regular in Fox's medical drama The Mob Doctor (2012-2013). She had a recurring role in NBC's spy series...

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GenerationofSwine 1/10 Jan 14, 2023
SEASON ONE: 10 Stars

It's not Jessica Jones, but it's also the BEST cinematic version of the Punisher to date, including the 1989 Dolph Lundgren version which is arguably the best movie version to date.

Now, I've seen people on IMDb complain about the lack of super powers and the violence involved in the series and, well, clearly they aren't really familiar with the source material.

Especially since The Punisher is essentially Dexter. That is he's a serial killer tolerated only because he kills the bad guys. But still...serial killer.

And with that in mind, you have a series about a killer that kills a lot of killers worse than he is. Only unlike Dexter, he's killing them with guns and not really concerned about getting caught or the evidence he leaves behind.

He's just a killer. And, well, it works. It's done right. And the characters are perfect.

SEASON TWO:

Season 1 I gave 10 stars. Season 2 did something so anti-Punisher that I had to bring it down to 1.

It did the Jessica Jones thing. The first season was amazing, not Season 1 of Jessica Jones good, but it nailed The Punisher better than even some of the writers in the comics could ever dream of (MAX clearly excluded).

And then it does the political thing and unfortunately the politics were "Woke."

Now with Jessica Jones the kind of politics weren't that important...they still killed the show...but at least the politics fit the character.

Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Luke Cage (to an extent) you can introduce far left politics and it would fit their character. Daredevil is defined more by being a Catholic...but even then you can take the character to the left and it would fit (just not as far). They are all essentially liberal characters....but the Punisher is not a liberal character.

The Punisher can't go woke, Jessica can, but The Punisher is essentially a serial killing super conservative authoritarian. He's not a nice person.

The Punisher is slightly right of Atilla the Hun. He makes Trump look like a liberal. That is the essence of his character. He's an authoritarian.

He's a conservative character, that is his personality. He's more of a Neo-Con than Iron Man, he's more conservative than Mr. Fantastic..and Netflix made him woke.

It is a personality trait that brings him into conflict with so many other Marvel characters, especially very liberal characters like Captain America.

And I realize that woke people are also authoritarian...but it's an authoritarianism that is the direct opposite of The Punisher.

So, not only did they inject politics into my escapism again (which I hate) but this time the politics where in direct contrast to the character's personality.

So congratulations Netflix, you messed up a really good show on two levels.

Injecting politics into a show is irritating when you are watching it to escape the bleak reality on the news...but when the politics contrast the essence of the character it's a tragedy.

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