Punisher show is pretty disappointing so far.
Edit: So writing this while the final episode plays, cause frankly I don't give a shit at this point. This show was a huge disappointment in my opinion. The very first episode was pretty good, but everything after that is a huge downward drop.
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-It's pretty fitting that the series starts with Frank throwing the Punisher logo into a fire. There's a so little Punisher in this fucking show, both terms of spirit and terms of content. A big part the appeal of The Punisher is seeing just complete and utter scumbags get what they deserve. It's satisfying and makes for fun and gratifying action. There's so little of that in this goddamn series. You likely can count the total number of action scenes across the nearly 13 hours the series runs with your two hands.
-Aside from the very first episode, Frank does not even kill people who deserve punishment as a general thing either, now he just kills people who are a part of this dumb conspiracy that led to his family being killed. I guess they felt that a more personal connection was needed to carry a plot for a whole show. Well they horribly failed on that and the entire character was totally neutered for that. It's not a show about The Punisher, it's a show about soldier man who's getting revenge for the death of his family.
-Everyone on this show is so fucking boring and dour. Did the writers figure that inserting any personality or humor into the show would instantly make it too much like the marvel movies for the kiddies? Everyone is just fucking miserable throughout, agent lady and Billy Russo (why even call him that if he has absolutely nothing to do with the character?) are both utter flatlines, Karen's there to remind us that she exists. The good Punisher stuff (Ennis, mostly) have been grim as hell, but they carried themselves with some good black comedy too and Frank himself is a supremely entertaining character. Not so much here. And Franks villains tend to be entertaining horrible scumbags, but here they are just vaguely hateable but most certainly boring.
-It's so fucking slow and meandering. Like, all the marvel shows so far have been, but they had likeable characters and a clear goal to work torwards.
Here it's just so many long drawn out scenes where you are just hoping shit would pick up and get somewhere, but they don't, not until the very goddamn end. By the middle I was just skipping scenes, because I figured it was just more scenes of boring people talking about boring things in a room. It absolutely should not have been 13 episodes long. Hell, I would barely have given it eight, as is.
-It's not grungy enough, nowhere near. Sure there's violence and sex and stuff, but none of it really has any impact. The violence is fairly graphic, which I did enjoy, but there's nowhere near enough of it. The cast are all just fairly blandly attractive people, the sex scenes are just bog standard fucking inbetween the two of the prettiest people in the show, the villains don't do anything particularly vile and none of the "seediest criminal underbelly" that was kinda the defining setting of Punishers character is but on display at all. Only expection I can think of was the military general dude who was really into dommed, that was pretty fun.
-I don't care about the american military angst shit that was basically all this was about at all. I mean that's always been a part of The punisher, but a small one, not something to fucking hang a whole show about the guy on.
-I dunno man, there's a lot more, but it was just poor and I have a headache, I think im done.
So overall: Would not recommend at all.
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November 18, 2017, 09:24:04 pm by Mechy